Biker friendly?

Go to France instead.

Why the **** bikers want to go to Scotland escapes me.

1. The weather is unutterably foul (Yeah, yeah, I'm always being told
"It was great last week!" but then that's Scotland's weather motto -
"You should have been here last week...")
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It was mostly good when Marina and I went there... Pleasant most of
the time...

We had some excellent meals, only one mediocre one...

We found almost everyone to be very friendly and helpful...

The police didn't hassle us in any way and were fairly happy for me to
give it some in a sensible manner (Skye)...

Have you seen the statue in Reading? Its anatomically wrong!

You went at the wrong time of year / in the wrong weather conditions /
or you road the wrong roads...

So don't drink the beer... Plenty of good whiskeys, it is the local
fare...

I think we only had one bad stay, a B&B, the rest were ok or good...
We were on a budget...

If you want france or italy, go there... If you want some exciting and
sometimes challenging roads in a place where everyone can understand
you, Scotland takes some beating...

We didn't go for the football...


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Yer actual tartan as we know it today is mostly a Victorian invention,
from when it became trendy during the time Billy Connolly was porking
the Queen, gawd bless 'er.

Prior to that most tartans were fairly plain and very dull - after all,
you don't want some mad fucker with a claymore easily spotting you on
the hillside after you've just been and shagged his wife / sheep / dug.

 

I'd imagine if you spend a lot of time in Ulum Bataaarrr, anyone / thing
will look good.

 

Precisely, but it keeps the tourists happy, and the tartan shop owners
rubbing their hands like an Aberdonian hotelier.

 

"a lot" is relative to... everyone else in the world.

 

Before he rips off another load of punters with his crap food....

 

No, never.

In fact, I can't actually recall ever getting covered in dead flies either -
certainly not to the point of where it would be regarded as 'unpleasant'.

Are you the size of a house or something?

 

dwb says...

I'm not huge, but my MJK jacket is absolutely plastered in dead flies.

Clue: have a look at the other side of your jacket and see just how
many flies have met their maker by flying into the back of you.

 

Those days are gone, I think. The stunning ones are earning $1000 a
night in lap dancing bars.

 

It's not difficult to construct a strategy to avoid this problem.

 

Champ says...

Gouge your eyes out first?

 

LOL - yes I have some on the FRONT of the jacket - but not to the level that
people would be turning me away as the Human Fly.

Anyway, do you agree that you could just take off the jacket to solve this
problem? Therefore I still don't see why it would make someone 'ban' me from
their B&B.

Unless the OP likes to park his bike in the room with him at night or
something.

 

dwb says...

In recent years I haven't been turned away from anywhere because I've
been on a bike. It happened a couple of times when I was younger, but
the prejudices seem to have been broken down.

 

That's not the one I was thinking of.

 

I've not been turned away from anywhere for being on a bike in over
ten years. As Lozzo says, those days are gone.

Crikey, the shoulders of my jacket get completely encrusted!

 

Yes, but that's not the whole jacket is it? Also, as I mentioned to Loz, you
can take a jacket off very easily.

Maybe the OP rides naked and is confusing the issues as to why he is
rejected.

 

The external armour on my jacket shoulders sometimes builds up a
noticeable layer of dead stuff. Hanging it up after getting thoroughly
wet reveals, in the filthy water dripping off it, just how much crap
is on there.

I've sometimes felt that I'm not projecting the expected image in posh
hotels when arriving wearing fly-encrusted kit, but never received so
much as a hint of disrepect as a result.

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Perhaps not just prejudice. Motorcyclists (I hesitate to use the word
'bikers') generally aren't the Ogri clones they once were, giving the
formerly "prejudiced" less reason to turn them away.

Obv. some still have upside down heads, leather waistcoats and tassles,
but they're fortunately in the minority.

 

One day you'll say that too many times and he'll turn up. Or is that
Hastur?

Phil

 

Candyman.