Roam Scotland Rally (RSR) is an annual self-supported bike-packing ride, inspired by the incredible Torino-Nice Rally. The RSR mission is to explore a different corner of Scotland each year on a week long ride. Come and join us!
The Rally will start on 29th May 2022 on meandering routes, exploring quiet roads and gravel tracks through Scotland’s wild places. It’ll be a challenging but low-key sociable ride, averaging around 100km and 1,300m of climbing a day.
The annual Rally happens in late May or early June – the optimal Scottish weather window and before the dreaded midges! Riders can bivvy, camp, hostel, stay in B&B’s, hotels, or whatever. We’ll aim for a wee social gathering at the end and no doubt congregate in the odd pub along the way.
Each route has its own kind of landscape, so the nature of the Rally will change year to year. Some tougher or more remote, some more track, others more quiet roads. Each route with options and short-cuts along the way, made to ride your own way at your own pace.
The aim is to make routes suitable for a wide range of bikes and riders. The guiding principle is finding beautiful tracks and quiet roads through wild places, ideal for ‘gravel’ or ‘all-road’ bikes, comfortable for a cross-country mountain bike and maybe even adventurous touring bike riders like these inspirational Rough Stuff Fellowship folk!
Entry for 2022 involves a donation, however small, to the Link Up charity. This year all your donations will go to one of their projects the Gallatown Bike Hub.