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Midges are worst on the West Coast. Still present elsewhere but if you're riding and not even camping then I doubt you'll have any issues. Watch out for clegs, who love to settle on you and bite when you slow down for a climb, haha
If you can, get up to Glen lyon and over the Ben Lawers climb. Great roads round there.
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Going to be in Edinburgh for 5 days in mid August. Other than some family stuff, pretty free to do as much cycling as I can. Looks like some local routes have been posted in the Edinburgh thread all doing loops south and/or a bit east/west of the city. I might check these out, but also am tempted to go north maybe towards Perthshire and do a few days proper touring staying in B&Bs if there's anywhere available.
Quite tempted to do some offroad too and try some of these routes if I decide to take my Vagabond: http://perthshiregravel.com/
But I guess probably safest option would be stick to road routes, due to weather and remoteness of those trails etc.
Any thoughts/ recommendations? Would the midges be intolerable?