I did the Killin - Crianlarich part of this route, having come up from Dunblane via Callandar. If you do this route I'd be interested in seeing any photos of the route along Loch Tay and if it's particularly scenic I may do it one day. I assume you'd take the C451 on the south side of the loch? and possibly switching to the north side of the river onto the B846 and then C447 to avoid the A827?
I did the north side of Loch Tay. It’s a bit of a climb from Killin up to Milton Morenish but not steep, and a nice fast road after that. Yes it’s an A road, but it’s not busy at all.
Without sounding too melodramatic when I did it, I’d been having a really tough time with my depression for the previous four or five months, and it was a monumental effort both to go up to Scotland and then get out on the bike. Once I was underway it started raining not long after I left Crianlarich and then absolutely
hammered down dropping down into Killin. I’d decided I was stopping for tea and cake at the nice little cafe in Aberfeldy (highly recommended by the way) so kept going, and I was bombing down along the side of Loch Tay the sun came out and it was just spectacularly beautiful, and it suddenly struck me I felt
happy for the first time in a very long time. (It didn’t last. It never does)
From Aberfeldy the better route is east and then south, first on the A road and then through Balnaguard, which drops you down by the A9 just by Dunkeld but you hardly need to use the big road