http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Loch Leven circle trail - Fife en Tue, 19 May 2026 21:28:49 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-155426 Fri, 30 May 2014 16:47:45 +0000 chdot 155426@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11049&amp;replies=9#post-155425">Route completed</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-26692 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:43:05 +0000 chdot 26692@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Close by</p> <p><a href="http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kilmagadwood/Documents/Portmoak_Moss_leaflet.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/kilmagadwood/Documents/Portmoak_Moss_leaflet.pdf</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25376 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:06:38 +0000 Cyclingmollie 25376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Walkers are like Haggis... </em></p> <p>...which have two long legs and two short legs that allow them to run around steep hills but only in one direction. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25342 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:44:43 +0000 DaveC 25342@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We finished the first leg out with Camie's bike hanging out the back of the trailer, which is why I chained it up at LLL. I now think I need a bike rack for the bike trailer, as he usually gets tired and wants in to the trailer with his brother.</p> <p>I might have to explore steel tubing, elbows and some form of clamping system for our Halfords MK1 bike trailer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25338 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:40:34 +0000 SRD 25338@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>to recover Camie's bike</em>.</p> <p>when we rode to duddingston, we took trailer and bike seat. bike seat for small person, trailer for her bike! Not sure how we would do it now that there is an extra occupant in trailer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25337 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:39:20 +0000 DaveC 25337@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Walkers are like Haggis..."</p> <p>What, there is a season for hunting walkers? Eek, let me know so I refrain from taking a stroll at that time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25335 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:24:26 +0000 steveo 25335@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Can they only walk in one direction?</em></p> <p>Walkers are like Haggis... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25332 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:20:04 +0000 chdot 25332@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"walked 3/4 the way round"</p> <p>Ah yes, I was thinking it was more like 1/2 way.</p> <p>Hard to not realise the path doesn't go all the way though.</p> <p>Went October 17, 2009 - which was actually a Sat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25331 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:12:26 +0000 DaveC 25331@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>chdot you silly billy, I imagine if I'd walked 3/4 the way round and only then found out it was not a complete circuit, I'd be dissapointed. I hope they heard about the circle bus, and didn't call for a taxi.<br /> But then its not too far if walking along the road.</p> <p>Were you cycling up there on Sunday afternoon chdot? We saw a couple of individual cyclists on the road up though Scotlandwell, when heading back to recover Camie's bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25327 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:56:29 +0000 chdot 25327@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"some walkers who were a bit distraught at finding that out"</p> <p>Can they only walk in one direction?</p> <p>The Kinross to Cowdenbeath road was quite OK (Sunday pm) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25326 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:52:36 +0000 amir 25326@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Unfortunately the trail doesn't goes all the way around. When we were at the RSPB centre recently we overheard some walkers who were a bit distraught at finding that out. They were trying to decide whether to catch a taxi back to town. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25321 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:39:09 +0000 SRD 25321@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yup. My small one covets my gloves. She's got little 'smart' lights on her helmet. And the 'knog' lights are great, cause you can stick them on small bikes easily too. Definitely recommend both to anyone with kids. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25319 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:31:18 +0000 DaveC 25319@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Camie has asked for some bike clothes like daddy and I've bought some lights from Poundland in St James for his bike so he can be like daddy with lights on.</p> <p>I'm sure he'll get it, he just needs to want to. We have no probs with Louis, who soaks in all Camie does and copies him. Louis loves the stableizers as he can climb on the bike and pretend he's cycling along (peddling backwards)... :D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25315 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:22:03 +0000 SRD 25315@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My daughter just never got all that into the balance bike. She liked it and all that, but never quite got up the speed/enthusiasm that other kids seem to (maybe it was too heavy?). So if the ground sloped up hill or the pavement was rough, she struggled. So, she was VERY happy to move to bike with pedals (and chain - she really liked having a chain like the big people). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25314 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:15:25 +0000 DaveC 25314@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh he's progressed from a wooden balance bike to a 'big boys bike'. He's an expert on the wooden bike. He can 'under duress' free wheel along on his metal bike, when I let go of him. But he's becoming used to me pushing him along, without stablizers, so won't peddle. Its daft as he'll happily wizz up and down the street with stableizers on. I think we just left his stableizers on when he moved from the wooden bike to his metal bike.<br /> The worry is he's becoming so fast that he's prone to falling over at speed as he uses his stableizers as a crutch instead of leaning into the corner as we do on two wheels. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25313 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:07:12 +0000 chdot 25313@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I'm trying to teach him to ride without stableizers"</p> <p>Try the 'remove pedals trick'.</p> <p>It's mostly a question of being able to balance. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25310 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:02:38 +0000 DaveC 25310@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've just reread my post, Clarification. Our 4 year old, who had been on his bike most of the day, (I'm trying to teach him to ride without stableizers) only managed 3/4 of the way to LLL. We chained his bike up at LLL and popped him in the trailer with his 2yr old brother. After 5 mins on the return he was asleep :D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25307 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:55:20 +0000 SRD 25307@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>but our 4 yr old was tired</em> </p> <p>12.5 km??!! not bad. We've cycled a bit under that when ours was 3, and it didn't exhaust her, but wouldn't have wanted to push it much past that. she'd be fine if the wheels on her bike were bigger! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25304 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:15:45 +0000 chdot 25304@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Anything else is just pedentry"</p> <p>Anyone on here from Fife....</p> <p><a href="http://www.lochlevenheritagetrail.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.lochlevenheritagetrail.co.uk</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25303 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:13:24 +0000 DaveC 25303@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeh yeh... I look at the large land mass between the Forth &amp; the Tay as "Fife". Anything else is just pedentry. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25302 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:00:39 +0000 chdot 25302@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Of course it isn't actually in Fife (but you go through it first) -</p> <p><img src="http://www.scottish-places.info/maps/m218.jpg"></p> <p><a href="http://www.scottish-places.info/councils/region15.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.scottish-places.info/councils/region15.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://cyclinginfife.wordpress.com/">Cycling in Fife</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25301 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:58:01 +0000 chdot 25301@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Just found it on Cycle Streets"</p> <p>That's why I did the trip - wasn't on <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=56.1742&amp;lon=-3.3407&amp;zoom=12&amp;layers=C">OSM</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25300 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:55:27 +0000 DaveC 25300@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just found it on Cycle Streets, dhoop!!</p> <p>Might have guessed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25299 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:54:12 +0000 chdot 25299@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I can recomend it as a family cycle"</p> <p>YEP</p> <p><a href="http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=392011" rel="nofollow">http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=392011</a></p> <p>We went via Lochgelly Station and returned from Cowdenbeath. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2387#post-25298 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:49:32 +0000 DaveC 25298@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On Sunday we rode part of a trail round Loch Leven. The trail goes round the top and east of the loch to the SSPCA centre on the south side of the Loch. Its pretty much a hard standing surface of stone cruched to form a hard surface for walkers and cyclists. Most of the path goes through sheltered woodlands or across new plantations, circling the Loch.</p> <p>We set off from the Findatie car park, a little way east of the SSPCA and stopped off at Loch Leven's Larder which is ~500m to the north of the path on the North East side, before heading back. Its not a long way I'll grant you but our 4 yr old was tired.</p> <p>Its not marked on any OS map, we have both 1:25k &amp; 1:50k which is a shame. But on the plus side there is a circle bus which calls in every carpark along the route for walkers.</p> <p>I can recomend it as a family cycle.</p> <p>Dave C </p>