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Do you think you could have got a bike up the path behind Heriot?
Not the way I went - steep, fences, burns and clambering through fairly dense wooded areas.
There might be more sensible routes, though - I was relying on brute force and ignorance.
EDIT: Fairly sure you could cycle it using these:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/373859963#map=16/55.7630/-2.9499&layers=G
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/373859892#map=15/55.7546/-2.9688&layers=G
Cycled to Fala, then walked along the Moor Road to Nettlingflat and back this afternoon. This filled in a fairly big hole in my cluster quite nicely.
The Moor Road is actually cycleable, although I wouldn't take a road bike on it. Somewhat unexpectedly, it is on Streetview, which gives a reasonable idea of the surface.
Perhaps one of those humans fitted with a Google 360 camera
@Frenchy, That's a useful road. It certainly looks easily passable on a gravel bike, although I'm sure it gets muddy at times. It looks quite similar to most of the southern end of the road south from Mount Lothian. I did ride that one on my road bike, although it wasn't much faster than walking would have been.
I've come across a few odd stretches where Streetview works unexpectedly. I think they tend to turn down any tarmac road which isn't obviously a private access. When the tarmac stops they only turn if there's an easy way to do so, otherwise they keep going as far as they can. In this instance they seem to have come to a gate and given up there.
@ac and@frenchy
i dont expect you to hang on my every word but i have posted a bout cycling that road from the farm by first taking train to stow.
there is a hurdle at the east end you need to brake for otherwise all fab and a wee tower half way? and of course karine polwart out walking her wolfhound
@gembo, sorry to say I had forgotten that particular post.
The plane wreck sounds interesting too:http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17974#post-256215
As @acsimpson surmised, I joined my Lothian cluster to my Fife cluster today, with a cycle around the inner Forth. West along some roads I'd not been on before between Linlithgow and Falkirk, a brief detour to the RSPB Skinflats car park, over the Kincardine Bridge then back to the Forth Road Bridge via Devilla Forest and Crossford.
Well done Frenchy- I remember the RSPB car park and Devilla well! Once and done for some of those tiles...
Will give you a chance to up the cluster North and West - the Stirling end of the Forth is very doable.
I've been chipping away in all sorts of areas. My Max square is one awkward tile away from being able to Cross the Tay and the Ochils are yielding some of their secrets in the NW corner- mainly forestry roads and farm tracks.
I'm also 2 rides away from covering Mainland Fife - after that, a few coastal tiles can only be accessed from the water and a few islands are needed as well for full completion.
Some low hanging fruit to be had filling in gaps from previous rides to Stirling/Doune areas. Looking forward to getting up into the East Neuk too.
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