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Yes, did it on MTBs with racks, camped most nights, though we were so soaked at Fort Augustus that we got a b&B for the night.
On looking at my photos again there are quite a few sections that wouldn't be much fun without a MTB. The other thing is that a lot of the A roads round there tend to be pretty horrible to cycle on - very fast moving traffic and not that wide.
I'd forgotten that I ended up shearing a disc brake rotor off halfway, so we did the last part on the quiet road to the East of Loch Ness. Which is really nice, but definitely not flat.
Some photos here, though a lot of them are the from after the Great Glen way - I think we caught a train to Plockton from Inverness, then cycled over to Skye and from there caught a ferry back to Mallaig and from there back to Fort William. Something like that might be more fun than doing Great Glen both ways.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adownie/sets/72157607148578021/with/2834157834/
It is a beautiful part of the world. I have always vaguely meant to go back and do the whole of the Great Glen way as a 2 day MTB bike trip, travelling very light. The ideal would be to get the sleeper train to Fort William, then the return leg from Inverness, but it's really hard to get cheap deals on the sleeper these days.
One alternative idea (which I haven't done) - the section of route 78 http://www.sustrans.org.uk/what-we-do/national-cycle-network/route-numbering-system/route-78
around Tarbet, Crinan Canal, Loch Awe, etc would be pretty amazing to do and is mostly on quiet roads. I was near there last week and regretted not having a road bike with me. Though it also rained relentlessly...