GoZa Mite

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motorcycling, Adventure riding, Trans Euro Trail updates, travelling

Adventure motorcycle rider TransEuroTrail Finland Linesman but also some other interesting (or not so interesting) things

  • OffRoad tracks and Only Fun

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    I decided to test if it’s really true that I might not enjoy riding any more?!?
    I was riding a day and I was trying to find the kind of tracks that I usually enjoy the most. These are the OffRoad tracks that are not too difficult… I checked few new ones from the map but I didn’t make any route beforehand.

    I made about 100km’s… Like this!

    I started with riding in the forest without any paths -it was full Off Road!

    And my route went by an old copper mine (Orijärven kuparikaivos)

    And ofcourse I made a video about my day:

    And YES! I was enjoying the day a lot! Gonna do it again soon!

  • Riding enthusiasm has been lost until…

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    Yesterday suddenly around 2 PM I thought “Let’s go riding!”
    I didn’t take my camera and I didn’t take my GPS! I just put on some light riding gear and did it.

    That was 210 kilometers with roads and tracks that I’ve done before. But without GPS I was also little bit lost few times. That was fun!

    This is the forest road in Lönnhammar (Lohja).

    This is a small pond near Suomusjärvi. Been here many times but this summer it was the first time!

    This is the place of my terrible crash 9 years ago! (Blog update here)

    And the last picture I took quite near of my home and added it to the picture chase of moottoripyora.org. This is a nice one because you can’t find it right away with google or AI.

  • Finnish Army is conducting controlled explosions in August 2026

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    This will be between 03.08.2026 – 18.08.2026
    The area is around Hukkakero, Kittilä


    TET Sections 1 and 7 are NOT possible to ride through!
    You need to find detour that is best for you.

  • Atlas TransEuroTrail Fire Warning layer

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    TransEuroTrail organisation added a new layer to the atlas.transeurotrail.org
    You can now see the fire warnings in the area of the TET!
    The normal view looks like this:

    And on the upper-left corner you can see the button…
    And when you click it:

    This is the view with the fire warnings.
    But you must remember this is not “official” -it’s always better to find out where you can see the official information!
    In Finland that would be here: https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/warnings

  • Kokoontumiset Moottoripyörille 2026

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    Meetings for Motorcycles 2026 (this post only in Finnish)
    Listan on koonnut Anna Soramäki.
    Klikkaa kohdetta kartalla nähdäksesi minä päivänä kokoontuminen on ja mikä on tarkempi paikka.

  • Advestonia Day 6

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    Again I started very early… and while I was following the shores of the Peipsi Lake I saw this:

    So I was introduced with the glorious morning routines of Estonia…
    And when I finally left behind the amazing Peipsi lake I started following the TET section 1 and it had such a nice forestroads to offer!

    But I was also skipping some parts of the TET because I was trying to reach another Bucketlist place for me! This place was on my bucketlist also about 10 years! Place is the village (town) called “Viivikonna”

    This is the old mining town that was the most active in the 60’s! It had the population bigger than 2000 back then.

    But the mine stopped working already in the 80’s and in the town all the houses were abandoned! Nowadays it has population of 50-80 people.
    Pretty soon after Viivikonna I reached the shores of the Gulf Of Finland and I was doing my own route towards Tallinn.

    I found some amazing roads and tracks which you can see on the video (linked at the end of this post).


    This was the 342 kilometer long route of the day and I ended up to stay for the night just outside of the Tallinn in this kind of place:

    Here is the video of today’s ride.

  • Advestonia Day 5

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    On this day I was riding 178 kilometers from Võru to Kallaste village on the shore of the Peipsi lake. The weather was beautiful and warm.

    This small village was quite soon after leaving Võru.

    Kavastu ferry was closed!

    Nina is a small village on the shore of the Peipsi lake. Here’s the lighthouse.

    This was the route I was riding. There was some very interesting tracks and paths! Check the video down on this post!

    After my ride I went to the beach in Kallaste and took a swim. The water was surprisingly cold!

    This ferry was doing 45 minutes long trips to the Piirissaar island. It looked like repairs had been made to it… Maybe it’s coming back?
    Here’s the video of the whole day:

  • Advestonia Day 4

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    I chose to stay in this Holiday resort for 2 nights. It was a very nice price and there was almost no one else and the apartment I had was huge!!
    I also realized that the weather forecast promised some crazy rain in the afternoon so if I wanted to ride around I needed to go early in the morning. And I did!


    Here’s the 96 km’s ride of the day 4
    I din’t have anything planned so I was just looking at the map while I was riding hoping I would find some nice forest roads. And I certainly did!
    I found also some abandoned buildings.

    This is the bridge between the Võru town and Roosisaare (island?) area where my place to stay was. The bridge was only for pedestrians.
    It was 12 km ride around the lake to go to my accommodation.
    From the eastside of the town I found some very muddy forest tracks!
    (Check the video!)

  • Advestonia Day 3

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    This day was about to ride back to Estonia. I didn’t know where I would end up… Where I would be sleeping the next night?
    Right outside of the town I was following the TET Latvia and for my big surprise there was a river crossing!! And the stream was so strong in the river so I had to put my feet down… and I got a lot of water inside my boots!
    But it didn’t feel too bad so I ride all the way to Valmiera where I stopped in some gas station and changed my socks and tried to make the boots dryer with some paper… It maybe helped a little!

    I was still choosing the roads from the map just as I was riding towards Valga and Estonia and I did find some amazing small roads and tracks (Check the Video at the end of this post!)


    I didn’t take too many pictures on this day because the riding was so super nice and the roads and tracks were so super cool.
    The last break I had in a small village of Sõmerpalu and there I made my decision about the next place to stay the night. That would be in Võru town.

    The video of the Day 3 is here:

  • Advestonia Day 2

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    This day I started very early because weather forecast promised some rain. I was already 06.30 on the southside of Pärnu doing some hard tracks of the TET!

    I had to make one major U-turn while trying to find the way out of this area. Such a perfect place to spend a day but I was more about getting forward… wanted to see some other places too!

    I finally made it to the beach and I was riding south on The Old Pärnu road. I stopped to check the Baltic Sea from the Viewing Tower on Kabli Beach.
    Right after I was in Latvia I chose the road that goes straight to the east. And after Korģene village I was riding quite a long time on the paved road to reach the town of Limbaži where I had my first longer break. I tasted some Latvian rhubarb pie (Yammy!) I was also checkin the map more carefully and it looked like there was a nice small road going out of town exactly to the correct direction… And that was a rough one!! Many kilometers riding on the soft and muddy road was a real challenge! This picture I took right after I managed to ride through…

    Soon after this I was in a small village of Straupe where they have a very nice castle! (Originally built in 1263)

    Soon after this I reached the TET Latvia the first time and I followed it to the “Līgatnes pārceltuve pār Gauju” (The manual ferry over the Gauja river). This is one of the places from my Bucketlist and now I’ve done it!

    This second photo is from “centrum of the Ligatnes village” which seemed like a very nice area for hiking, bicycling and spending some chillout time!
    My route for the day was like this:


    And of course I made a video of this extremely nice day: