Heretoo, you can trace the footsteps of heroes like St Columba, Sir William Wallace, Robert the Bruce and Mary, QueenofScots … and of outlaws like Rob Roy.
Some alternate-history novels have envisioned a separate Texas, notably 1990's "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, which explores what might have happened to the world had computers been perfected in Britain a century earlier.
Ian Hutchinson, Bruce Anstey, Guy Martin, Adrian Archibald, Martin Finnegan, William Dunlop and Ryan Farquhar are among the other big names expected to compete at the meeting.