DRAFT — a hub page linking to 2 individual ride write-ups below, each with its own real GPS route map and stats.

Scotland · Clackmannanshire · Home Turf (UK)

Before Bargen, this was home — and the training loop out from Alloa is still the base every UK ride on this site is measured against.

This is the UK counterpart to Bargen — the base near Alloa, at the foot of the Ochils, that everything else on this page fans out from. Over 50 rides geo-match to the immediate home area alone, most of them the same repeated training loop rather than a place visited once and written up. Unlike Bargen, this stretch of the archive carries a real story running through it: a knee injury that took the best part of two years to sort out.

More from the archive The lost-mobile ride Alloa to Edinburgh Dunfermline, first ride back The spare-tube ride Every UK ride
The scale of it (from Strava): 50+ rides cluster around the immediate home area (Sauchie/Cambus/Tullibody), most logged 2022–2025, plus further day trips out to Killin, Loch Katrine and beyond built as their own pages below.

The core loop

The repeated route is a roughly 55km circuit out through Dunfermline and back — described on one ride simply as "New Training Ride In Scotland — 85% is offroad gravel so perfect for what I like." It's ridden constantly: lunch rides, afternoon rides, "fat burning rides" between gym sessions, and at least one ride that ended with a lost phone Kevin never saw fall ("Lost my mobile today whilst riding my training route. Sadly I did not see it fall as I was enjoying the weather and the views.").

Real GPS route map showing the core home training loop out from Alloa through Dunfermline
The core training loop, from one real recorded ride (11 March 2023, 54.1km, 316m climbing) — the route repeats with small variations across the archive.

The knee

A running thread through 2023–2024: cruciate ligament trouble that comes up again and again in the ride notes, from "Times have changed and the gym is now my main priority to improve strength and see if a 63 year old can get a six pack. Will still be biking but only..." in May 2023, through to a first ride back after four months off in mid-2024 ("1st decent ride for 6 months. No knee pain.") The two rides built as their own pages below — Killin to Kenmore and Callander to Loch Katrine — both carry this same story.

Family miles

Not every ride here is solo training — several are logged with Kevin's wife Priska and their dog Lillie: "Dollar trip with Priska & Lillie" in July 2024, and a shorter "Stirling with Priska and Lillie" the following month.

Three rides built in full so far

The comeback

Killin to Kenmore

First ride back after four months off, carrying a bad knee, along Loch Tay.

57.6km · 862m climbing
Two days out

Callander to Loch Katrine

Killin one day, Loch Katrine the next — back to back in the Trossachs.

44.5km · 453m climbing
New roads

Bannockburn

A loop built to bank new roads on Wandrer.earth — "27.33 new kilometers."

47.3km · 256m climbing
Home turf near Alloa, with the Trossachs, Loch Tay and Loch Katrine within day-trip range.

📝 Kevin — needs your input

  • Is the cruciate knee issue fully resolved now — worth a closing line on how the story ends?
  • Any photos from the actual home loop itself (Sauchie/Cambus/Dunfermline) worth adding — the ones pulled so far were mostly unrelated home/garden shots, not usable here.
  • Bannockburn is now built — which other specific rides from this area are worth their own page next?

Source: Kevin's Strava export, 50+ rides geo-matched to this area since 2022. Three rides built in full with real GPS tracks; the rest of the archive is still to come.