Bloody hell !! Steve, I've only seen half of this vid and had to stop to say 'Thank you' This is maybe the best informative vid I've seen in I don't know how long. If you are ever up here doing a ride, please let me join in, if it's only to say hello. Thanks again mate....Reet! back to watching the vid.

Not sure how I missed this one. Absolutely superb video, packed with clear and concise explanations. Great job, bud. 👍

GOOD TO See you Steve, been quite awhile.

Would highly recommend a visit or ride through & stop in Ballater whilst in the area, lovely little town a bit of a hidden jewel in my opinion.

Hi Steve, thank you so much for the tip on the book 'Bikers' Britain'. I just got it in the mail yesterday. I'm preparing a trip from Dover to Edinburg (I live in the Netherlands), were my daughter lives. From there she is going to join me to ride the NC600+ Skye. By the way, I enjoy your videos very much!! Thank you for putting in all the effort 😀 Cheers Dimitri

Great information to new Tourers. I have been using Google maps for years to look at type of roads along with Route Lab.

Excellent Steve Banff and Turriff are nice places to visit up there

Cheers Steve, that was perhaps the most useful biking YT video ever 🙂

Very interesting, good to see you again, looking forward to seeing your adventures again, regards John G.

Useful information, never too old to learn. cheers Steve.

thanks steve i can now use basecamp properly

Hi Steve, thanks for taking the time in making this video, I found it be very informative and helpful, I will us the information on my next trip to Scotland in May 2023. Keep up the great work.

I have used both Base camp and GE but not together and the use of the crib sheet will absolutely help. Thanks:)

Missed using google earth since garmin stopped using it in mapsource, Still use mapsource for all my route planning, find it much easier than basecamp but your video has helped in checking google earth again. Thanks Steve for the effort you put into all your videos.

Really Excellent video! Loads of good information. Many Thanks!

Seen some vlogs with Simon riding some of the routes with Teapot One. Good clear book

Hi Steve , just like to say it was a pleasure meeting you and your pals outside that cafe at clumberpark entrance the other week , I'm the one with the gsa 1250 from Scunthorpe . Love your youtube channel, keep up the good work , if you ever do any group rides with your supporters, would love to come along cheers Lee

Nice to see you again Steve. Enjoyed this video let’s hope we can get back to touring again soon

Been a while Steve but I'm back following you again . After I went into remission I was on cloud nine but unfortunately two months ago I got the bad news the cancer has come back . I'm fine with it and still out riding but it did knock me when I got the news . I'm really looking forward to catching up on the rides you have done and like you say ,take care ,ride safe and be happy . Regards Mal in Australia

Last year had bike accident so just getting back in to biking again. Looking forward to using your experience and what a great video. As a great man said "Happy Days" :)

Thanks for taking the time to make and share this video. Excellent work and very helpful. Thank you

Another great video,you gave me good advice about a Swiss trip 3 years ago well appreciated,I'm going again soon with me nephew we can't wait.

Thanks for sharing the knowledge Steve, brilliant vid! Basecamp not always the most intuitive thing to use, these tips very helpful 👍 Cheers.

Cheers Steve perfect just what i was looking for

Fantastic video.....Thanks for posting ride safe Steve

Just had a go opening the route in Google Earth but had a bit of trouble so opened it in Google Maps instead, but with a bit of perseverance I found that I had uninstalled Google Earth at some point although was still using it but in the web browser. So reinstalled it and its all working great. Thanks again for the great advice.

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have watched dozens of KZfaq videos on how to use Garmin Base Camp and, after trying for over a year, I gave up! It’s just too complicated to map a route from scratch. I have been using my phone with Google maps up till now which is daft as I have a Garmin satnav on my GS. Thanks to you I’m going to give it another try. Ps: the Missenden Flyer also struggles with Base Camp and uses a prompt sheet to enter each leg his Garmin. Thanks again. John

thanks for the info Steve better than any lesson I got at school, I really enjoy watching your road trips and will use your tips on finding and creating some ride outs this year.

Being a route meister even when we had no electronic means and do use online planning and sat nav now when I can't be arsed, I didn't know about the KLM file, so thanks. Do enjoy your vids. Cheers.

Brilliant video Steve, most useful and clear. Many thanks.

Brilliant informative video as usual Steve. You put a lot of work into planning your routes !!!!!

Great video Steve. Just managed to create and transfer gpx file to my Nav 6. First time I’ve actually managed it in Basecamp which I feel is so user UNFRIENDLY to say the least. Good tricks and tips, thanks. Peter Warrington

Great information, thanks for putting this together and sharing the knowledge

Excellent video Steve. Some great information on how to plan the routes. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to your next tour. Drive safe

Steve a pleasure as usual. Great channel.will be following you and the lads this season . Have a good year ma man 👍 and you guys be safe . Roll on the summer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Really nice informational video Steve and thanks for giving me a mention! All the best, David

Hi Steve very informative as usual. 👏👏👍

Excellent video. Like you, I use Simon Weirs books and plot them in Garmin BaseCamp which isn’t the most user friendly software. I wasn’t aware of KLM file conversion, very useful. With regards to best biking roads website, I did come across it before but never explored it in details, I guess that’ll be my next project. I relied on ride magazines routes before. Thanks 🙏.

great bit of info there Steve you learn something every day thanks mate

10 out 10, excellent video very informative

Thanks for the information Steve, really useful. I've ordered the book. 👍 Cheers...

Cheers for that mate. I’m really looking forward to your trips this year. Keep safe.

Great video Steve, thanks for sharing all the info!! 👍👍

cracking stuff Steve, explained really well. looking forward to the videos from the trips.

Absolutely fantastic video Steve… Content… clarity ….delivery… probably the best route planning video I’ve ever seen on KZfaq… I use similar planning but ‘Garmin Base’ not compatible with Garmin Drive app to Garmin Zumo XT… Thanks again ..

Nice that Steve, I've learnt a few tricks there thanks.

What a fantastic video. Thanks for sharing that, great help

Kin ell pal,Nice to see you back🏍🏍👍👍

Fabulous video pal some great info for route planning 😎

Great info Steve, thanks for sharing.

Fantastic video Dave. Some great websites and really useful tips there. Thanks a million! 👌

Great stuff Steve!!

Cracking roads in that area Steve nice to see you doing something a little different compared to the normal vlogs from others …. You will love the cabrach…. I live in Banff and ride these roads a fair bit , couple of things for you to see if you fancy are Huntly Castle , Portsoy ice cream shop right on the Main road , don’t forget to pop down to Portsoy harbour as featured in Whiskey Galore . Very different to the cairngorms or nc500

Been waiting for this Steve. Just ordered the sw motech map holder which will come in handy.. I use a rider 500 navigation system so just figuring out how to incorporate with Google maps... Really looking forward to your upcoming videos now the better weather is coming. Send my best to the gang hope you are all well. Rich

Brilliant video Steve, thanks for the insight I’m sure I will be able to draw lots of tips as I dip in and out of it. (Guess who got TWO copies of Biker’s Britain for Christmas? Lol) Ride safe Steve, thanks again, Dave from Sunny Scarborough. 🏍🏍👍👍

Really informative video, thanks 👍

Cheers Steve, that was a really useful video mate, some great tips there, thanks buddy.

Cracking info from you once again Steve, very interesting, thanks. I usually like to follow where you go on a AZ super scale road atlas .

Steve, I was one of the many people that asked for you to do this Vlog, absolutely brilliant and showed me a far better way of planning the routes, thank you very much mate for sharing this, I've learnt a lot from it, safe riding mate, Regards Bazza (btw we're going for 4 days in the Lake district if you have any tips)

Good to see a new vid. Great information and you showed us something we didn't know which is the KLM file to Google Earth. Carol is our Basecamp expert and enjoys planning our tours. Must admit we don't normally do a tank bag crib sheet and trust the Garmin to work. This caught us out on our very recent riding visit to Madeira when the Garmin 660 just came up with a message APPROACHING at every turn blocking the instructions! Summer riding is soon with us. Always enjoy your trips. Cheers and take care. Love the Simon Weir books and the last one we followed was a loop out of Moffat.

Brilliant video....

Hi Steve Great bit of information, thanks. Me and my missus is looking at going touring this year for the first time on our GSA, we are going to do a short tour up to Northumberland (just to show she cant fit the kitchen sink in the panniers) and then hopefully a trip to Spain/Portugal. This will help me plan the routes.

Many thanks for this Steve, very informative and I shall certainly follow your tips in trip planning coming up.

Excellent Steve! Got all Simon Weirs books, a great source of information! I just wish Basecamp still had a link to "View in Google Earth" as it did before. I didn't realise about saving to a file that could load in Google Earth so thanks! I was just using the lat and long from a waypoint and searching on Google Earth. It works, but your way is better! The days are getting longer, spring time just about here, so with all the crap going on in the world, let us all enjoy our freedom, get on our bikes and enjoy the ride! Take care and ride safe!

Great video. Useful insight into how you plan your routes before going away. Well worth doing, rather than spending half the morning deciding, “so where we’re going to ride today boys?”

Steve , you will enjoy the roads up near Nairn ,(A96 can be slow though) I'm lucky in a way , I stay in the Highlands so get to ride some cracking routes , only drawback is if you fancy something new , I've got a long way to go to get to the lakes or dales. I did enjoy a trip round Wales a few years back , so do go for it sometimes. Looking forward to your videos.

This is fantastic Steve, thanks so much for putting it all together. I've just started planning routes for tours and was struggling a bit. The information in this video is pure gold.

Great bit of info, thanks

Really enjoyed the video and picked up some useful tips on route planning. I’ve recently got back into riding after a few years break and really enjoy watching your videos. Some of the routes you’ve videoed I know quite well and you certainly did them justice. Brought back many happy memories seeing those routes again. Look forward to your upcoming videos, and thanks for sharing.

great vid Steve, watched it several times so could follow along on my laptop. have issue linking best biking roads and garmin, hopefully can figure it out..........btw good to see you back on YT, been missing your adventures with Muzz and crew.

Brilliant!!!

Great how to video I've struggled for ages trying to do this never thought of using google earth ! now it looks so easy Thanks for sharing a really good video

What a great book and breakdown thanks Steve. I did a 160mile loop this morning around bowland and the dales and my route took me down terrible farming roads and about 20 hairpins On my bmw1200lt wasn’t the most enjoyable ride I’ve had. A bit of forward planning like you’re doing makes more sense. Will be nicking a few ideas for future. 👍🏻

Hi Steve. Nice to see you mate. Great video Very informative. Looking forward to your new adventures Ride safe. old dave.

Thanks for sharing your advice and experience Steve I found this really useful as I plan my trips this year. More power to your elbow 👍

Excellent video Steve I have just started motovlogging properly on KZfaq and I understand what you mean about having things to say especially about the route you have planned and what is on the roads points of interest I’ve watched a lot of your videos and I like the way you put it across to the viewers thank you for your help keep up the good work and looking forward to more episodes of your tours

Cheers for this video Steve. There's more to making a route than you think. So often I end up going down single track roads. I used 'My Route App' it's not too bad, and it's in the cloud so can be accessed on many platforms. My computer is too old for basecamp. I do find sometimes the "perfect" route I made, turns out different on the TomTom satnav. Enjoy your trip, cheers

Really enjoyed this video,nice to find how you plan your trips,looking forward to your travels for 2022 stay and ride safe mate

Nice video! I just subscribed to see other vudeo's as well

A grand wee video Steve, I'm looking forward to the lads out on the road again and the Nairn trip. I'm guessing its all bundling into a static caravan again, happy days. Thanks for the update ATB Big Dave Scotland

Nice one Steve, very informative and educational, even for a luddite like me, just have to work out how to interact with my Beeline now lol, take care buddy and stay safe, looking forward to the new batch of videos, (quite a few more on my channel by the way).

Great vlog Steve , well explained and some great tips for people new or experienced looking forward to seeing a few of your trips later in the year safe riding buddy 👍🏻

This is very useful Steve but you will miss out I you don't go further east to Pennon famous for the film Local Hero some really nice veues along the stretch

Cracking vid thanks I can’t get my head round basecamp doing the nc500 in may not looking forward to trying to sort that out might see if I can get a gpx file form somewhere. Cheers for the vid Steve

Hi steve Ive enjoyed watching most of your trips especially the Swiss mountain passes. Steve did you buy a vignette while in Switzerland. Cheers

Nice stuff Steve; always nice to have a plan! Incidentally, you can also upload / import .klm files to Google Maps (you might need to have a Google account). You can still access street view and the info icons for points of interest bring up other useful info too. For example, Linda’s Fish & Chips is open seven days a week 1600-2000. No good for a lunch stop this one 😉. The one for the Rockpool cafe gives a link to their website so you can see the menu in advance. I”m off to Tummel Valley at the end of the month for a few days on your recommendation. Got a great Black Friday deal, 4 nights for £79. Bargain.

Useful video Steve, thanks for sharing some of your tricks and tips. Do you use Base Camp a lot in your planning? I’ve just downloaded it to use with my Nav 6 and have found it a bit of a pig!! Also Lots of horror stories abound as to how tricky it is to use. Just curious. All the best pal 👍👍

Hi Steve loving the videos especially the scottish ones (and your pronouncations of some of the places) lol, I was the same in Wales by the way. Looking at doing a wee bit more filming on trips, can you advise on the cameras that you use and the drone ? My go-pro is fine but very wide angle and fish eye, would like videos to be a bit better. Thanks pal and stay safe

Hi Steve, great video which I found both entertaining and informative. Can you tell me the make/model of the tank bag you use and is it any good?

Thank you Steve, very helpful as I’m new to this. Did you say you had links to GPX Files? Thanks.

Planning a bike trip to Glencoe from Leicester, any tips on the loooong journey up there please. Great Videos.

Were you coming through Abergele two up Steve. If not, I waved to your twin as I rode in the opposite direction.lol

Hi Steve very good video. Is there any chance you could advise me on how to do the loop at Winnats pass please.

Hey up Steve. Another great video mate. Just got myself a Garmin zumo xt. But didn't know about the Garmin base camp. Can I download the app and then send it to the zumo via my phone mate? Is this possible because I've got no idea lol. I've always been a road map user.

Hi Steve Great vid. Quick question, On bikers best roads, once I find my desired route, how do I change my start and finish points. Thanks, Paul E

I tend to use "Google, My Maps" to plot the route then import the route file into BaseCamp, I just can't get on with Basecamp as a route plotting option

This was great, so how do you get the basecamp route into your phone. Thank you

thanks for sharing, will these files download onto tomtom rider 400.

Hiya Steve what's the model of your garmin