NC500 Scotland Trip Day 4 // Riding BMW GS Motorcycles // Ullapool to John O'Groats!
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- čas přidán 30. 12. 2021
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The new year is fast approaching and I wanted to squeeze a little vlog in before 2022 hits us!
As you know, Mike and I went to Scotland in July this year and rode R1200/ R1250 GSs through England and up to Scotland.
In this vlog, we leave the wonderful charming town of Ullapool and make our way to Durness on the hunt for Cocoa Mountain! Then from there, we travelled up to John O Groats.
We hit a bit of rain but it wasn't the end of the world.
Enjoy everyone!
Thanks!
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There's a video floating round all the forums right now about getting a GS off the side stand easier. It's from Motojitsu. If you turn the bars away from you and shift your butt to the right, the bike comes off the side stand with minimal effort. Give it a try folks as it works 👍
In the BMW motorcycle club Scottish Section, we used to hold the Longest Day weekend starting in Blair Atholl on the Fri, ride to Durness on Sat, camp there then ride home to Edinburgh on the Sunday.
The roads have been there fir donkeys years, now for the tourists, the powers that be decided to call it the NC500 !! As though we needed a silly name fir what is Caithness and the North Highlands !! 👍
Another good part Kate
Thanks Lyn! ❤
Great video. I like the Battery “nappy change” 🤣 Brilliant
🤣🤣🤣 Thanks Curno!
Great scenery
Wind Haven sounds good after all those beans for breakfast
🤣🤣🤣 poor Mike
Beans are what bring a full English together 🤗
Changing the battery was the least Mike could do for you after riding downwind of his breakfast beans! I like your sheep in the road song 👍
🤣 💨
You'll find your Victoria sponge in the little Cafe above the souvenir shop in Inverary 😝👍( through the arch on the right ) .. its home made too .... simply simply lovely
🙌🙌🙌 thanks for the tip! Love me a fluffy little number
I live outskirts of Aberdeen, I love Ullapool. Pubs, food, live music. Some fantastic locals. Johnny Cash duo.
Now I got a bike, I want to take her up there.
Loved seeing the sites again. Haddock wrap next time, or fish from Del ca sea.
Yeah I defo made a mistake with that food 🤢
Brilliant Kate
Beautiful scenery, thanks Kate and Mike.
Heavy Breathing, Nappy changing.. brilliant views.. what else do you need.. Oh yes, me and my van so you can have a hot brew :-P.. You should get a JetBoil so you can have ya brew fresh x
Hi Kate, Hi Mike, thanks for another great video through some beautiful scenery. That was a scary moment with a hair in your eye, and Mike to the rescue! I love your non-stop commentary, it makes the moment so real. Disappointing that Cocoa Mountain was unattended! Thanks for sharing your holiday.💑
eyup kate i got chance to watch somethin 😊 lovely part of world 💯💯🏍🏍
Bringing back great memories, have a great new year
Have a great one yourself Stevie 👍
Always love the commentary
Great way to end 2021: with views of Scotland and some entertaining commentary from yourself. Looking forward to more of your shenanigans in 2022. Happy New Year from British Columbia. 😊
Happy New Year to you too! I hope you have a wonderful evening! 😊
Fantastic end title :) HNY and many happy trails in 2022
Same to you John!!! Have a lovely evening and an even better 2022! 😀
Beautiful scenery! It was great to follow along. Happy new year!😎👍🍻
Happy New Year straight back atcha Garth!!! 🍻
Have enjoyed your NC500 vids so far. Gotta say I love my country.
Glad you are enjoying them, your country is defo the BEST! :)
Just like the Aleutian Islands, but longer roads.
Loved the ride to sky and back
Happy New Year Kate & Mike. All the best for 2022.
Happy New Year to you too Space Cowboy! Yeehawww 🤠
Now I want a Hot Chocolate 😂
Great tour Kate N Mike 👍🇨🇦
Fortunately I never get the hair in the eye experience !
Thanks Kate for another very entertaining video, vocalising every thought makes for great viewing keep up the great work, i'm going to be smiling all day :)
And I will be smiling all day after that comment!! Have a great one 😊
HOT CHOCOLATE !
Happy new year when it happens !Love your vids ` keep them coming 2022 !
Thanks John!!! Have a Happy New Year yourself! 😊
Scotland in the sunshine is a fabulous place.
Oh its so so good!!
Beautiful as ever, great video 😀
Thanks! Happy New Year to you! 🎆
What a trip .... a contact lassoed ... counter steering on the by-way making meow sounds.
Kate your a ball of fun, do not change. No hot chocolate for ya or any one else ... pounds 'n profit missed. Loved day four banter ...
Omg everyone thinks I'm saying meowwww, I was going for neowwww but I am a crazy cat lady so I'll roll with it 😂
@@UsernameKate Guess it depends (diapers) on our ears .... lol
Loved the picture of your cat also, but crazy ...NO unless you have fifty. Sometimes silly but special to us.
very inspirational vids you have. im looking forward to my DAS in feb and plan on a triumph speed twin to see some of these sights!
Happy New year Kate,Fantastic video. Thanks for all your brilliant content this year. Looking forward to seeing more in 2022 🤘🤘🏍🏍
Thanks G Rossi!! Thanks for all your lovely comments this year! Happy New Year to you and your family! 🍻
Well done on reaching John o Groats. Enjoyed the video
Glad you enjoyed it Colman! I hope you have a lovely evening! 😊🕺
Loved this series Kate! Scotland is really beautiful, you sure were on some sketchy narrow roads there though.
Hey Kate, Hope you & Mike are keeping ok. I’m after buying a new BMW GS 1250 TE In Triple Black, Thanks to your delightful videos riding on your GS…. So it is bye bye S1000XR HELLO GS1250 2022 😊👍👍🇮🇪☘️🏍,Stay safe Hope you and Mike have a great trip, ENJOY,
Look forward to your next video, Mark.
You will LOVE the GS!! Such an incredible machine
You need them both.. I have a few GSs and now looking at a used XR for some mountain riding. I run the GS for camping trips.. offroad.
Great vlog Kate, enjoying your NC500 series. Happy New year.
Happy New Year to you too Big Al 👍
MMMMMMmmmmmmmm!!!! That looks like a nice hot chocolate.
Awesome footage, 👍
Thanks!
Brilliant ride along. 👍🏼 👏👏👏👏👏 🌎
Thanks Bradley 😊👍
Great video, even better sober 🍻
Glad you enjoyed it! :) Have a lovely New Years Day!
Happy new year Kate xx
Happy New Year to you too Nigel!! 😊
Superb video, Kate! Love it, shipmate. Can smell that air when you're sitting on the beach.
And slick gopro pitstop from Mike. 👌🏾
Smooth operator 🤣
Great video
Thanks Kevin!! Hope you have a Happy New Year! 😊
Happy New Year To You Both 👍
Happy New Year to you too Phil!!! ☺
Happy newyear Kate, you are so funny
Greating from Hollandia
I wuv this video. The style of content is superb! I enjoyed the riding vicariously through you guys. Happy New Year and cheers! :)
Glad you liked it!! 🙌🙌🙌
Always a good video Kate, love the sound effects ......😁👍
Cheers! 🤣 Happy New Year to you! 🍻
@usernamekate ......happy new year to you as well .....👍
Once again beautiful footage. While I can say I’ve never wrapped a hair around my contact lens I’ve gotten dust or fine dirt under it on occasion, the pain and vision loss is instant and it being the only eye I get vision out of it’s no fun.
Yes enjoyed this one Kate with you and Mike zooming through the Scottish highlands on those super GS's. I wish BMW would make a retro bike with this engine in, something like my old BMW R100 RS. Wishful thinking. Still, I have my Triumph Bonneville for now.
Well done kate another great episode don't half look forward to your up loads stay safe in 2022 a fellow triple black owner 😆
Team Trip Black! 🖤 Happy New Year to you!! 🍻
Well that was an unexpected treat - thought we'd had all these videos, so thanks for this. I didn't get as far north as you in my summer '21 trip to Scotland...maybe the NC500 is one for 2022!
Full of surprises 🤣 Happy New Year! 🍻
Bloody hell girl. Took yer time getting that one up! Awesome though, respect as always.
Bloody well did didn't I!!! Absolute slacker! Well no more slacking in 2022!! Go hard or go home! Have a cracking evening MadGingerCat!
@@UsernameKate You too quine. Get offline and enjoy the festivities to the extend that you can / want to / feel safe doing. Second year in succession were going nowhere and seeing no-one - which for a scotsman is pretty ****ing poor!
Lovely video thank-you 👍 I planned this just before lock down, then my old Gs dropped a valve when all covid lifted! Currently it's in bits, and I'm hoping to resurrect my route from London. (I am originally from Inverness) so it's going to be like going back home. Have a fabulous time and stay safe 😁
yes the aerial shots of Kylesku Bridge take in the curve of the road on land making it appear bigger, still nice all the same 👍
That defo must be it! It's all optics! Have a lovely New Year's Day 😊
Brilliant footage Kate, all the best to you n Mike for 2022 x. Looked like Mike had heard that one before though.😳😟😟 “It looks bigger in the pictures!, ah well it was nice nice though”😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣 Savage!
Excellent video...great scenery and landscapes...and of course your random chatterboxing!( I mean your intellectual conversation 🤣🤣)!! But seriously ..Happy New year to you and Mike and see you next year!! Cheers, Steve 😊
Thanks Stephen!!! Hope you have a wonderful 2022! 😊
The cowboy time "ten, ten, ten, ten, ten ...." thing was funny and cute. I've never heard one do that before. :)
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God Kate, pissed myself all the way through this video, some of the things you come out with. Hope you and Mike have a great new year's
Glad you enjoyed it Simon!! Happy New Year to you and your family 👪
Excellent!! Been looking forward to this. Hopefully I’ll be doing a few hundred miles in wales tomorrow all being well. All the best and many thanks.
Happy New Year HeadRace. Ahhhh that sounds like a perfect way to enter the New Year! Have a great evening and a good ride too! 😀
@@UsernameKate many thanks, Kate. 🏍 🌧 🤦♂️😂😂👍
Nice one again Kate, a wee tip to make it easier to get the bike off the side stand is turn the bars to the right, the bike will pop up dead easy, us short arses have to use lots of tricks to make life simpler. !!!
Yea I saw that tip recently shared by... is it Motojitsu? Was shared on a GS Facebook group. I tried it at work today. The more you know huh! Have a great new year!
‘Can’t get it off the side stand’ - been there done that ☺️
It's a hard life 🤣
@@UsernameKate I just read a post which suggested if you turn your handlebars hard right when astride the bike, its much easier to pull off the side stand. Have yet to try it but it might be worth a try! Happy trails. B
@@bartcanestra4551 I have also seen this from motojitsu and it defo works!
19 degrees is hot? Wow.
We had 46 in the Swan valley last week.
It was so hot I almost took me fleece off!
Happy New Year Kate, stay safe babe xx
19 degrees is SCORCHIO 🤣 Have a wonderful New Year! 🎆
hello good afternoon Kate happy exit and entry of the year greetings from Valencia 🙏 Spain
Hey Chema! Thanks for stopping by! Have a blessed 2022 and a wonderful evening 😊
Ok 👌👍 super Kate
You were so lucky with the weather when we went that route it was torrential rain 60 mph winds and a puncher😂 i’m no bird spotter but they were seagulls😝
Urgh that's the worst LOL we were defo lucky! Have a great New Year! 👍🏻
If you want to turn the heated grips on and off without going through the menu, just hold the button down and both grips and seat settings turn off if they are on, then revert to the previous settings on the next long press.
Kate and Mike have a great new years eve and all the best for the new year....and not to mutch " oliebollen en appelflappen "...and the bublley stuff...
All the best to you too!! :)
Blij om te ontemoten Frank,
Zwarte Piet says to say Hi. Not many people know this, but he always has a holiday down under when he`s finished working for Sinterklaas !
We both got shit-faced on the beach yesterday, skulling jonge jenever, zuidams and bokma!
Hi Kate done the Apple cross many times latest was on my Goldwing !! Just found the passing places wearing away , I was ok but the guys pulling in behind me had not a lot of places to put feet down .
Looks a great trip , must try and get up there soon, Happy New year to you and Mike. Little tip if you put the bars all the way to the right when lifting the bike of the side stand it makes it easer, especially a big old GS
Random Col, it was definitely a great trip! That tip I've seen from Motojitsu definitely works, except for if the bike is still a little bit impractically tall and your bike is on a bit of a slope, then there's no saving you, tried first hand today 🤣
Well, when I spoke to you in the shop, you did say that you might supprise me over Christmas! You took bleeding long enough! Lol. I love the way you murder the Scottish pronunciations, brilliant. Anyway, a really entertaining vlog, you and Mike look to really enjoy yourselves. Oh yeah, Happy New year. 👍🏍.
Haha you put the pressure on, I had to deliver Keith! 🤣 Happy New Year to you too!! 🎆 🍻
Really enjoy your videos Kate & Mike, I hope to do the NC500 this year 🙂
I hope you get to do it too!!
@@UsernameKate - planing on going in May, when did you guys go?
@@BiGVern1958 July the 2nd :) in May, I believe there are less midgeys!
@@UsernameKate - a Scottish mate told me the same - May it is then!
i not be to Scotland on my bike need get my ass up ther looks amazing after watching the vid
The Ceilidh place in Ullapool is great for food, just along from the Caledonian, my pal owns it!
Ahhh I know for next time now! 😊
Trip I want to do when I get my GS.
Keep the you tube clips coming.
You'll be seeing a lot more of them I can promise you that 😊
Gonna be travelling up to scotland from runcorn for the third time this year. Its just so good up there, hardly any people and lots of twists and turns
Kate , turn handlebars to the right when taking bike of side stand . A lot easier on ye lass 😘
If only motojitsu brought that vid out before July when I went eh! Haha. Tbf, it doesn't work if you have hobbit legs and you're on a slope.. trust me, I've tried!
Hi Kate, happy new year, thanks for the footage last year. I enjoyed it. Also I send in an application for you to BGT you can can sing any song about cats “miauw miauw” 😂😂 hoping for smashing and free 2022 ride save big thumbs up 👍👍🇳🇱
It was suppose to be neeowwwww 🤣 everyone thinks it's meowwww. I know I'm a crazy cat lady but jeezzz haha
Had 8 days up there on my new V4 multi in August last year with six mates,stayed in same hotel in Ullapool,breakfast was good as you say,visited that bridge also,first time for me in Scotland and absolutely loved it,going back this year hopefully….please no more lockdowns or travel bans 👍
🤞 praying for no more lockdown and travel bans!!! 100% I hope you manage to get back!
@@UsernameKate What hotel were you staying at, you are critical of the Gairloch Hotel but don't seem to mention which (better) hotel this is?
BIKE tip: when you get on a bike that is a bit tall and/or heavy for you - once on pull the handlebars all the way to the right and then lift the bike up and off the side stand. It should feel easier that way. Cheers!
I've recently seen this tip doing the rounds on the GS Facebook pages 👍 it's a great tip and I tried it today at work! The more ya know huh!
Motojitsu top tip😎
@@TwoFourCharlie007 Yep. Passing on the knowledge. :)
@@UsernameKate Me too. I saw it on Motojitsu's YT channel. :)
I've always at least straitened the handle bars before lifting a bike off of the side stand.
We of th North organized to have the mountain closed to save your innocent soul🤣🤣🤣
HA my soul isn't innocent muhahaha
I’m doing the NC500 at the end of May 2022, so this has made for a very interesting series to me. Your humour and personality does make me smile 😃 Happy New Year Kate!
Happy New Year to you too James ! ☺
Make sure you add in the A93 on your way there or back I loved that road
@@tonylawson8301 doing that on the way up to Scotland and coming back down the west coast 👍🏻👌🏼
Hi Kate came to look at some bikes last Sunday but you were off. Wanted some advice, saw Craig. Needed a woman's view point. Grat vlog as per. Thanks. Take care.
what's up pal? email me at usernamekatemoto@gmail.com if you want :)
Take a look at the video on my channel Kate. You'll see an alternative way of leaving the garage forecourt in Ullapool!! 😜😜
That's a great route, still ok in the wet, but with weather like that at the start, it's lovely to be able to make the most of those bends.
We were lucky at Kyelesku bridge, I managed to catch a stag on the drone footage. He was just down over the edge from where you were stopped.
Shame you dipped out at Cocoa Mountain, lovely coffee and hot choccy. We were up there in June and due to Covid, they were told they couldn't have people inside, so we had to have takeaway. I hope it's not had to close permanently, that place is legendary.
Shame you had a bit of the wet stuff across the top, but it always seems to rain up there. I'm sure those mallows and cream made up for it.
I'll defo take a look!! haha. Catching a stag on camera, that is pretty cool! And I know! I hope it's not closed foreverrrr :(
Hi just a very good tip for you Kate Ive a bmw gsa and the easiest way to get the bike off the side stand is turn the steering to the right your be amazed how easy it is just try you’ll see what I mean 🙏🙏👍🏻
See my pinned comment 🤣 since everyone has seen Motojitsu, I'm getting this a lot! It does defo help on a flat surface but a tried it today when your on a hill and the bike is slightly too tall and no joy 🤣 think it depends on where/how you're parked 🤣👍
@@UsernameKate mines the F850 GS adventure the top heavy one works works okay on that thank you for your reply ride safe & be safe 🙏🙏👍🏻👍🏻
@@SOLOMOTOUK yea that beast is quite weighty!
They really owe you for that missed hot chocolate
They so do! Thankfully a wonderful customer of mine Paul posted some to me at work in the powder form! A lovely gesture 🥰
pulling hair out your eyeball what a dream start to the day lol, stunning views again and is it me or are you getting more and more comfortable with the bike you seem to be going into the corners with more confidence and we get those lovely meeeeooowww sound effects to lol.
GS is the most confidence inspiring bike ever! 🏍 love them
@@UsernameKate mmmeeeeeeooowwwww lol
@@Sharpey76. I mean, i was going for neeeowwww but meow will do 🤣🐈
@@UsernameKate ohh I assumed meow as you were showing off your near purrfect cornering..... I'll get my coat
You could've sung Whitesnake 🎵Hair Eye go again on my own, goin' down the only road I've ever known.🎵😁😁
Excellent video, being Scottish I loved your optimism that 20 degrees in morning meant same all day. Remember we can snowboard in the morning in Scotland and have a BBQ in afternoon. Keep the videos coming Kate
It was a little naive wasn't it 🤣🤣🤣 Have a cracking 2022! 🍻
It was a little naive wasn't it 🤣🤣🤣 Have a cracking 2022! 🍻
Mike - poor guy
Hello and happy new year! What would you recommend? For 1,70cm A GSA With low Seat? or GSA With Low Suspension and Heated and low Seat as an extra option.
If your inner leg measurement is less than 74cm, I'd DEFINITELY recommend a chassis lowered GSA. The GSAs are bloody tall! I only ride them if they're factory lowered as it makes life much easier 👍
R1250GSA the bike I want but waiting to see if BMW will give it the RT makeover in the next generation
Go to Shetland, better roads, better views, beautiful island and a cake fridge??
CAKE FRIDGE? Sold.
You didn’t get the hot chocolate cos you slagged off the bridge. It phoned ahead and told them it had been crossed.
It defo grassed on us 🐍
Is the Speedo delete tape a £300 BMW option? Great video as always.
🤣 it could well be! Have a great New Year! 👍🏻🍻
Never ever say to a bloke it looked a lot bigger in the picture 🤣
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I'd love to know if they folk had a good time in that tent below the bridge at 14:50 mins/secs
😂😂😂
Hi Kate,please could you help. I have a GS 1200 Rallye and the message Emergency Call Failed keeps popping up. Is there any way I can reset without a long ride to BMW garage. Many thanks. Love the Scotland trip,amazing.
No way that I know of 😫
Hya Kate. Loving this trip to Scotland. Considering it myself now. Can I ask what camera you use on your helmet please and any feedback or review would be great. Thanks. X
I use a gopro 10 with a media mod on my chin, teamed with a lapel microphone (mine is purple panda) 😊
Fan from across the pond! Started watching your channel because I've been considering a GS. Currently ride a 690 enduro R and as much off road as possible. The KTM is great off road but long miles on pavement get really long!!! I went and looked at a GS, just looked, and HOLLY F..... its like sitting on a small car. The 690 is about as skinny as you get and the GS is, well, not skinny. And heavy! My brain goes from pretty confident to, first time ride instantly.
My question is should I get a newer one and hope to learn to feel confident, or get an older one because I'm going to drop, drop, drop, drop... it? I don't want to ride the GS off-road like the 690, but would like to camp off the bike on long multi-state trips. That would mean some dirt roads. Oh, 60yrs old, 5'7" (173cm). Thanks for any thoughts.
YAY, you got your hot chocolate in the end... with all the trimmings! :D
I miss the warm summer temps, you chatting about 20' had me longing for summer....
Do you record your audio separately, or do you run the mic into the camera?
In the end I did!!! Can't believe it was closed lol! I hope you have a new year!!! 😊
@@UsernameKate I'm def having a new year! 🤣
@@HippoDrones a happy one 🥴🤣
@@UsernameKate :D