Fantastic Trails in Royal Deeside & Cairngorms - Route 16 From Gravel Rides Scotland 🚵 🚵🏼‍♀️

[@IsaacS1]

This is one of my favourite gravel rides of all time! Thank you for such beautiful footage of this stunning part of Scotland, I was able to relive this ride again from the comfort of a couche ❤👌

[@TwistyTrails]

Ha ha! Nice one Issac - glad you enjoyed it from your sofa……hopefully some inspiration to get back up there to have another blast at it! I can definitely see why it’s one of your favourites! Thanks for the feedback. 👍

[@jamesherd9132]

Thanks Alan Love the Video Have walked or Cycled parts of the route so Thanks for bringing back fond Memories

[@TwistyTrails]

Glad to have rekindled happy memories 👍

[@nickforwood]

Outstanding video (as always). Fantastic post production too. Cheers!

[@TwistyTrails]

Thanks. Yep, it takes a while to capture the footage then takes an age to stitch it all together. Appreciate the feedback. 👍

[@nickforwood]

@@TwistyTrails Alan - I’m just starting out on the video capture - assembling the hardware. What video processing software do you use / recommend?

[@TwistyTrails]

@@nickforwood I use Davinci Resolve. It's a powerful tool, sometimes intimidatingly so, but there're plenty of Tubers out there offering tips to get the best from it. Good luck with the film making venture.....but beware, n+1 for bikes is great, but it also applies to camera gear too! 😃

[@rjward51]

Fantastic video, Alan. This one is almost on my doorstep and I have had it on my radar for sometime. Great to see what to expect!

[@TwistyTrails]

Thanks - nothin stoppin ya now! 🙂

[@thoff-jn7mr]

nice trip ty for sharing

[@TwistyTrails]

Thanks for watching

[@grahamhaines9931]

Love the Gravel around Braemar! Did the red Bothy this year in June and I’ve done the ride up to Bob Scott’s a few times previously. The Glen Quoich loop is now on the “To-do” list! Thanks for sharing.

[@TwistyTrails]

@@grahamhaines9931 Cheers. Glen Quoich was definitely the highlight of the 3 spurs. Enjoy!

[@janicegalloway5636]

Another great video Alan, excellent watch. Have this book and this ride is on my bucket list for the future. Great to see it from a cycling perspective. Loved the interesting camera angles and drone shots ( time consuming 😅). Thank you for sharing 👍

[@TwistyTrails]

Thanks Janice. I’m sure you’ll love the route - don’t wait too long……and secure any water shoes etc! 😀

[@boblim1549]

Epic. Thanks from Melbourne

[@TwistyTrails]

No problem 👍

[@tonypaddler]

Great footage and matching weather 🚲👌👍

[@TwistyTrails]

@@tonypaddler thank you. Despite the sun it was still a day for the leg warmers though!

[@KevinFindlater]

Another cracking video Alan, thanks for sharing.

[@TwistyTrails]

Thank you.

[@dannycrainie3605]

Fantastic vid again, young man. Thanks for sharing it. I'm heading up to Aviemore tonight. Not with the bike 😢 walking.

[@TwistyTrails]

Thank you...especially for the young man bit!😄 Enjoy Aviemore, even without the bike.

[@HughDWallace]

This brought back a very fond memory indeed. I rode this route minus Glen Lui on my hardtail about 12 years ago & I remember accepting wet feet (no waterproof socks or water shoes - a great idea BTW) as a reasonable price to pay for a glorious ride. You make me feel quite nostalgic for the NE. The irony being that I have become a much better cyclist since moving away from the area & maybe only now realise just how brilliant the area is for gravel riding (or mountain biking as I thought of it then).

[@TwistyTrails]

@@HughDWallace glad to have brought back happy memories! Perhaps a visit back to the NE to tame those once gnarly rides? Of course, the water shoes are only a good idea if you strap them down securely! 😀

[@gwynwrex]

Was hoping to ride similar a few weeks ago but stayed around Dalwhinnie and Aviemore. not enough days off 😂.Next time and thanks for sharing. enjoy the ☕️👌

[@TwistyTrails]

Thanks - it’s definitely one to try out the next time you’re up in these parts, although Dalwhinnie and Aviemore aren’t bad alternatives! Many thanks for the coffee too! It’s thirsty work doin all that filmin 😊

[@geordiem8496]

My local (drover’s) roads. There’s a nice extension east over Invercauld bridge, back of Balmoral, past the Lochnagar distillery and south to Loch Muick. Out n back from Braemar or back via South Deeside Road B976. You might even spot Charlie in his Landy. Anyway, good ride and love the production quality

[@TwistyTrails]

Thank you @@geordiem8496 . Yes, I’ve done the Ballater, Balmoral and Loch Muick loop previously (video somewhere in my channel). Glad you enjoyed! 👍

[@gillianramsay2865]

Thank you for a great video. As a ‘newbie’ gravel rider, can you tell me what you mean by ‘water’ shoes? Forgive my ignorance!

[@TwistyTrails]

@@gillianramsay2865 welcome to gravelling! Don’t worry, water shoes aren’t the must have gravel accessory…..they’re just my ‘paddling on the beach’ shoes I pack if there’s likely to be a river crossing. Effectively just cheap neoprene shoes. I can’t do bare feet across rivers and same at the beach: in a previous life as a wannabe surfer I was stung by a weever fish, so always boot up! 👍

[@PeteDevlinootnaboot]

Nice one Al, is that an X4 you're using now? Footage looks way better than previous 360 offerings. My X2 is collecting dust these days.

[@TwistyTrails]

@@PeteDevlinootnaboot Cheers Pete - yep it’s an x4. Did away with the protective lens covers though as they were adversely affecting the image - bit of a risk, but used the x2 without protection and got away with it. The x4 works well with the wind mufflers on the microphones too. Tried my hand at colour correcting/grading on this vid…..never again! Go Pro and x4 reset to normal colour mode for next one!