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@gillies
my secret is out, thanks @LeePaton
my family have mostly moved away from oban now, so i don't really go back often and i've not cycled there much either beyond about the town and south a bit to the Barn Bar where I used to work.
Funnily enough I was back there doing some cyclo-touring with an ex a few years ago and got hit off my bike by some tosser in an SUV towing a caravan (he overtook me, going downhill, on a corner :/ )
The main roads from Oban to Glasgow and Ft William can be pretty sketchy but other than that the roads are pretty good. I do suspect that there are a fair few drunk drivers on the rural roads but that is probably true of most places without good public transport.
Would reccomend Mull and Ardnamurchan peninsula as places to aim for - incredible. Just go April/May or mid September onwards. Midges will have ye otherwise.