Scottish Coast to Coast Mountain Bike

If you want an active holiday, choose a cycling adventure tour of Scottish Highlands. This biking tour will take you all through a variety of beautiful areas and will allow you to explore as you would on foot, but quicker, on a bicycle! A wonderful UK holiday idea. 

The Scottish Coast to Coast is the iconic mountain bike journey through the highlands of Scotland and quite simply an awesome mountain biking holiday. Our independent self-guided mountain bike holidays on the Scottish Coast to Coast allow you to travel at your own pace, enjoy Scotland’s best mountain biking, experience our fascinating culture landscapes and people and tailor your adventure to suit.

Your adventure starts in Fort William and after 200 miles of grin inducing riding in the Scottish Highlands finishes in Montrose on the East Coast. You will enjoy outstanding single track, endless descents and the best off-road riding you have ever experienced. This mountain bike journey through the highlands of Scotland is unbeatable in the quality of riding it delivers. Everything from the finest manmade trails to smooth natural single-track combine to make for an unforgettable mountain bike holiday.

Every holiday we offer features hand-picked overnight accommodation in high quality B&B’s, country inns, and guesthouses, each is unique and offers the highest levels of biker friendly welcome, atmosphere and outstanding local cuisine. Also included are transfers for you and your bike from Glasgow to the start and back from the finish, daily door to door baggage transfer, comprehensive route notes, a detailed map with the route marked on, use of a GPS with daily route pre-loaded, an information pack, personal briefing and emergency telephone support.

Itinerary

Day 1: Transfer from Glasgow to Fort William Ride to Spean Bridge: 13m

Day 2: Ride to Laggan: 35m

Day 3: Ride to Aviemore: 34m

Day 4: Ride to Tomintoul: 28m

Day 5: Ride to Ballater: 28m

Day 6: Ride to Edzell: 39m

Day 7: Ride to Montrose: 13m Transfer back to Glasgow for 14:00

Experience

This is a no holds barred, all out adventure as you cross Scotland off-road by bike. The going can be tough, but the rewards more than make up for it and you will experience some of the best single track in the country and have it all to yourselves. Biking heaven!

Pickup / Dropoff

Glasgow / Glasgow

Included / Excluded

Included

Return transfers from Glasgow to the start/finish of the tour.

Hand-picked bed and breakfast accommodation in B&B’s, small hotels, country inns and guesthouses in twin/double/single ensuite rooms. (Unless ensuite is unavailable)

Daily door to door baggage transfer.

A detailed information pack for the group leader including route notes, 1:50 000 maps with the route marked, local information, detailed travel information and a recommended kit list.

Loan of a GPS for the tour with daily route uploaded.

Emergency support from our offices in the event of a problem.

Excluded

Travel to Glasgow.

Lunches, dinners, snacks or drinks.

Travel Insurance.

Personal Equipment.

Bike Hire Taxi transfers or public transport should you need to skip a stage.

Essential Information

Accommodation

One of the highlights of this tour is the high standard of the accommodation. We specifically choose the hotels, inns, guesthouses and B&B’s to ensure that you enjoy every minute of your stay. All offer a warm welcome to cyclists, traditional hospitality and delicious local food.

Single Rooms

This independent holiday is unfortunately not available to solo bikers, but if you require single rooms within your party we will of course try to accommodate your request. As all our holidays are priced per person based on two sharing there is a single supplement payable to cover the additional costs we incur.

Accommodation Location

We will always try and accommodate you at the locations detailed in the itinerary, but because of limited availability we may have to accommodate you at an alternative location. Alternative details will be noted on your accommodation sheet.

Meals

A hearty breakfast is included each morning. Lunch and dinner are not included so you are free to choose from the available options. Most of your accommodations will more than happy to provide a packed lunch on request and this can be booked on arrival. Dinner is available either at your accommodation or nearby pubs and restaurants.