Sunday 18th October 2020 - Flying Scot Continental Tandem coastal ride - Caithness

Well Brian and I will hopefully get our ride to Altnabreac later in the week after being postponed. Meanwhile Caleb and I spent an enjoyable afternoon out on the Flying Scot tandem. Still work to be done to suite us and most of that will be over the winter when it will get stripped down and fully serviced. For now our major problem of the front derailleur rapidly losing the ability to move was down to an outer cable falling apart at a cable guide. Next up is bars and brake levers. 

 We now had gears back and that made it easier to head up the hill behind the house and up off the coast to slowly meander through the farm roads and tracks out towards Dunnet before heading back to the coast and taking a few of the dirt tracks to see if we could get anywhere on them. Some were good and some either didn't go anywhere or were flooded due to the weeks rain. 

 We stopped at Castletown harbour and had some brownie that Caleb had cooked with Heather yesterday and I had snuck into the trunk bag. 

Weather was dry but definitely cool, winter will soon be here. 

 It was a great few hours and Caleb loved it, he is a natural on the tandem as we never have any problem with being out of sync or thinking we are about to do something we aren't, it's just very easy and natural. 

 Anyway, hope it was dry with everyone else. 

 Jamie One of our usual dirt tracks was flooded by the stream. It usually crosses here in a trickle. Brownie!!