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Route help - kincardine bridge

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  • Started 7 years ago by Beano
  • Latest reply from Frenchy
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  1. Beano
    Member

    Hi all,
    Just wondered what cycle route folks would recommend from Edinburgh to Kincardine Bridge (but NOT over FRB)? I tried to have a look on cycle streets but it tried to take me over FRB (I want to cycle home (Dunfermline) via Kincardine Bridge) - I couldn't seem to 'force' it to pick a different route.

    Ideally a route from FRB to Kincardine going on the south side of forth as I'd probably leave work on my normal route to FRB and then head off towards Kincardine somewhere near the FRB.

    I have done the two bridges once before but I vaguely remember going a bit off road and getting a bit lost (I think around Hopetoun House). I know there is a 'path' there but would prefer to stick to (quiet) roads if possible.

    Thanks :-)

    Posted 7 years ago #

  2. paddyirish
    Member

    Sustrans route 76 is your friend, but if you need to navigate around Hopetoun House (a real shame as it is my favourite bit of the route by far and is comfortable on a hybrid) then perhaps through Dundas Castle Estate and you minimise the distance on the A904. Turn off at house of the Binns and then you can either take a busier road to Bo'ness or backtrack a little to blackness and along the coastal path to Bo'Ness. Either way you are back on route 76...

    An alternative is to make use of the canal (which is probably road bikeable) and hop off at Philipstoun down to House of the Binns and back on to route 76.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. Baldcyclist
    Member

    If you have time, heading west to Broxburn or Winchburgh, then heading over the Bathgate hills to Linlithgow then on to Bo'ness is a nice run.

    https://www.strava.com/activities/156005061

    Unfortunately I popped a spoke in Culross on that run, so finished 15 miles short of home.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  4. cb
    Member

    "I couldn't seem to 'force' it to pick a different route."

    Cycle.travel is pretty good for this. It lets you drag a route like you can in Google Maps.

    http://cycle.travel/map

    There is also a round trip feature which will plan a circular outing.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    We always go over FRB then back via Kincardine but that is easily reversible. Do you want the Balerno to Broxburn bit? We go down ravelrig hill which is steep, wilkieston then newbridge, from newbridge we normally take right turn before Broxburn and head by the old glenmorangie bottling plant. Now this road was closed the last time we went but we prevailed. You then jink to faucheldean and go into the Alps. This was where I met a very fast person who was going to the Kelpies then Fife that way. So from Alps down to Champany Inn shy of Linlithgow. From there down to borrowstounness and from there the cut through is now open again(we ignored its closure too of course) takes you into oil refinery estate and it is a straight line through Grangemouth home of The Cocteaux Twins at the very end of the strat line there is. Right turn and that is you on the round the forth route via skinflats and kelpies back roads to Kincardine bridge. From there some old road to Longannet etc all the way via culross to Dunfermline?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. Frenchy
    Member

    This seems to have been answered pretty well, but I can add on one thing to not do, from personal experience. Don't end up on Grangemouth Road when you leave Bo'ness. If you follow NCN 76 this won't be a problem.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    You bet frenchy, that is the road we avoid with the cut through on the right after leaving Bo'ness as that road is a shocker

    Posted 7 years ago #

  8. Frenchy
    Member

    Cut through?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  9. gembo
    Member

    Ah well has felt like a cut through as very narrow bridge over the river Avon has been closed to cars but is actually the A904. But much better than A906. Tricky right turn going west but normally we are heading east for mannerstons farm shop above bo'ness

    Posted 7 years ago #

  10. Frenchy
    Member

    Think we're talking about different bits of road. The bit I made the mistake of going down was the A904 just west of Kinneil. I then took the first left turn I found, past the curling pond.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  11. gembo
    Member

    I have only ever taken it the other way. Coming in from skinflats take left at traffic lights at west end of Grangemouth, cycle along straight road get to the traffic lights at the boxing club, veer left, cycle straight along the wide boulevards of Grangemouth, reach the junction that takes you into the refinery area keep cycling straight, at the very end there is a wee bridge over the river Avon which becomes quite shy as it enters the forth, after the bridge take left and then you are on the Bo'ness road, it is not so great but soon you take a left and you are in Bo'ness where there is a garage that also fixes bikes?

    The reverse has at least two tricky right turns

    Curling pond?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  12. Frenchy
    Member

    Curling pond: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/56.0041/-3.6430

    All makes more sense now that I know you're talking about going east - your lefts and rights were confusing me before.

    Posted 7 years ago #

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