mcerd1
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| posted on 8/9/13 at 02:26 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by AdrianH The Green Welly place has good grub, but I could not afford their outdoor gear.
you must be rich if you can afford there food !  
while your in that part of the world:
this place is good for pub grub: http://www.clachaig.com/ (west end of glen coe, on the back road)
and this place is a half decent Indian in fort William: https://plus.google.com/117830758952956090673/about?gl=uk&hl=en (down the side street, not
heard good things about the one on the high street)
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AdrianH
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| posted on 10/9/13 at 10:01 AM |
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Back home after drive from Loch Ness, looked at the weather and gave up next time not a small tent, or rethink what I am taking with me.
Just for proof I did something?
 
John O Groats
1100 miles
Adrian
Why do I have to make the tools to finish the job? More time then money.
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ashg
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| posted on 10/9/13 at 11:59 AM |
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no car in the picture didn't happen where are the vids? up north tours are always risky for the weather. a couple of guys from my local
club (skcc) did it in the snow this year!
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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AdrianH
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| posted on 10/9/13 at 12:39 PM |
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Trying to edit videos in Linux and software not providing edited output at the moment.
 
Shores of Loch Lomond
 
Shores of Loch Lomond
 
Shores of Loch Lomond
 
Luss Campsite
 
Shores of Loch Lomond
Adrian
Why do I have to make the tools to finish the job? More time then money.
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ashg
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| posted on 10/9/13 at 07:37 PM |
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if you fancy a big adventure i think we may be doing the alps again in 2014 if your interested?
[Edited on 10/9/2013 by ashg]
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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Nash
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| posted on 10/9/13 at 10:21 PM |
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A couple of us did Applecross Unplugged in early April this year. 2200 miles in 5 days. We live in East Kent and spent a day traveling up (509 miles)
and a day traveling back (506 miles) but the three days in the middle (1200 miles) I highly recommend.
The Unplugged bit in the title was due to the fact we didn't pre-book any hotels and just used sat nav POI and google to find somewhere each
night.
Heres a video of our trip. Mines the multicoloured indy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNH4UKUl39U
This is one of the hotels we found to stay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10mDLn5UQPM
Feel free to u2u me if you want any advise or if I can help you in any way.
Good hunting...........Neil
It's What You Do Next That Counts.
Build It, Buy It, Drive It:
Southern Kit Car Club
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unijacko67
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| posted on 10/9/13 at 11:14 PM |
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Originally posted by AdrianH
To get to Applecross would make sense to go up the West coast, Oban I will give a miss, had a family member live there, and will not go near, had
enough trips to that place and Mull.
If going in to Applecross from the south, it looks as though the only way out without back tracking is to go up around Loch Fulda and through
Inverbain to the A 896.
sdh2903:- Please tell me more, where is the A9 bad and why, is it the road conditions, other drivers etc? What route are you suggesting as I am not
following you at the moment, unless you mean Inverness, Elgin, Inverurie, Braemar then Pitlochry and down to Perth?
What ever the route as I am up to 860 miles and still up at Inverness, so will probably have to rationalise somewhere
Cheers
Adrian
Been to Mull a few times, did the tour in 87, awesome roads with pace notes, lots of "brow flats" best rally ever, more competitive miles
than the RAC back then, think there was one selective of about 25 miles. Keep us posted.
http://www.kittenkitcar.co.uk
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AdrianH
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| posted on 11/9/13 at 08:29 AM |
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The Alps does look nice, I bet that takes some planning to do, certainly would not be stopping in a 2 x 2 tent.
Still struggling with videos at this end, will get some up later, probably with no sound as the inbuilt mic was just overwhelmed with wind noise, will
try tape over it next outing.
Just trying to reduce the video sizes at they are into hundreds of megs.
I am also undertaking a bit more sealing around the bulkhead to stop the water throw up into the foot-wells, especially the passenger side, camera bag
was soaked.
The flasher problem disappeared when the car dried out.
Adrian
[Edited on 11-9-13 by AdrianH]
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AdrianH
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| posted on 12/9/13 at 06:55 AM |
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To complete this thread here, is a like (I hope) to Youtube videos.
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5jME5Ej9pFIui5FI0voDHA/videos
They are basic, no sound and I find quite boring!
Adrian
Why do I have to make the tools to finish the job? More time then money.
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theprisioner
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| posted on 12/9/13 at 07:45 AM |
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Considering they are your early attempts (hope I am not being rude) at video editing they are 9/10. What camera are you using? I have been following
your exploits again 9/10 you have entertained me immensely. I wish more on this group documented their adventures especially in Scotland. Do it again
please!
http://sylvabuild.blogspot.com/
http://austin7special.blogspot.co.uk/
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AdrianH
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| posted on 12/9/13 at 08:51 AM |
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The camera is one of these eBay Item
It has two settings either 1920*1080P at 30 frames per sec, or1280*720P at 60 frames per sec. A few things that are set via a text file. It is
supposedly a 5megpixal camera?
Fitted with a 32Gig mini SD card is could record for over 3 hours, and the battery dies around 2.5 hours, so It seems to give decent use. The inbuilt
microphone as on most of these devices is next to useless and many seem to tape over the ole to reduce wind noise. If these are meant to be on a
cycle helmet doing slower things then probably will be fine. File sizes are large. The camera records in 3 minute blocks and each block is 228.2
MiB
I appreciate your kind comments. Using Linux I have gone through about 5 editing packages before I found a basic one I can understand that would
still give a video output you could watch, many gave a black screen so can only think they did not recognise the format correctly, or possibly me
being thick.
My biggest problem is uploading videos with a very slow upload speed from home. All three videos were downloaded at the same time but each one would
take around 3 hours to youtube.
I have a few more videos to do, a run down the back roads of Loch Ness the B552, mainly single track road with passing places. And one after leaving
John O Groats I drove through Thurso and on the A836 turning left to go back down to Inverness on the A897 through very small Hamlets, that’s when the
recording started. Several times I had to slam on the breaks and reverse into a passing point for cars because I saw them too late. At the end let a
rangers vehicle past and tried to keep up with it!
One last comment about the roads. many said to avoid the A9 from Inverness to Perth, I didn’t and used it to come back home, but in many places the
surface is crap was was capable of bouncing my steering around. I know that my suspension is probably set harder then it should for road driving but
there were some humps in the road from patching that were just yucky!. Being behind queue’s of traffic I can deal with.
Adrian
Why do I have to make the tools to finish the job? More time then money.
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mcerd1
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| posted on 12/9/13 at 09:39 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by AdrianH
One last comment about the roads. many said to avoid the A9 from Inverness to Perth, I didn’t and used it to come back home, but in many places the
surface is crap was was capable of bouncing my steering around. I know that my suspension is probably set harder then it should for road driving but
there were some humps in the road from patching that were just yucky!. Being behind queue’s of traffic I can deal with.
its not just your suspension, bits of that road are really bad 
I was driving the GF's clio around the perth - pitlochry area last weekend and even with its extra soft suspension gets bounced around all over
the place...
but the worst bit of the lot is the M90 near kinross (between perth and the bridges) - its like driving over a ploughed field 
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