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

  • 11 days adventure is done

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    I went for Åland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Poland. I’m making videos for each day of riding.
    Day 1:

    Day 2:

    Day 3:

    Day 4:

    Day 5:

    Day 6:

    Day 7:

    Day 8:

    Day 9:

    Days 10 & 11:

  • Tomorrow I’ll go

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    This is a big deal for me! I’m almost crying here at home as I sit down for the last night before my trip.
    The last time I was on a long mc-trip with my ex-wife was in summer 2019. Then we’ drove’re riding 3 weeks to Croatia and back. It was a very good trip and I definitely thought even then that I should go again! Now I can.
    Last summer I was trying but didn’t make it. That trip had to last at least a few more days than it did.
    And it ended due to technical problems with the bike.
    And when I finally got that rear shock working properly last fall so that it could handle longer trips, I started thinking and planning a longer trip in the winter.
    At first it was in my mind that if it would be north again… But then I started to think all these places and things that are close to Finland. And made them as a bucket list for myself. So it turned into the plan and tomorrow morning I’m leaving to make this plan to come true.
    For the first time in 6 years, a long bike ride is coming (Baltic Edge Adventure)!
    (Hopefully there will be no problems with the bike)

  • TET Atlas is published

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    Since the TET App was taken down there has been a quite big need for TET route preview!
    Now it’s finally possible! The TET “head office” was contacted by one rider and web developer who told he could build this kind of page. The application is 100% built in-house, collaboratively, and has been a great proof of concept for learning how can we harness the will to help from talented members of our community. We give you https://atlas.transeurotrail.org/
    This page has these features:
    – Collects general statistics about each country’s total length, and an always up to date total length of the TET as a whole.
    – Displays all TET tracks on an easy to browse map.
    – Shows waypoints (POI’s)
    – Gives an overview of section numbers for each country.
    – Provides information about names and lengths of sections.
    – Points users to the main TET website country download pages.
    – Has a link to email the linesman (report a problem on the track)

  • 12 days to my Summer 2025 trip

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    It feels like the days are exremely long and time is passing by very slowly for me.
    But luckily I have few things I need to do for my bike before the midsummer festival and the monday after that weekend. Early morning on that day I will start my Adventure!
    I will call it “Baltic Edge Adventure” and I even made my own introduction for the videos that I will publish from that trip. Here’s the intro video:

  • My navigation since the beginning of my Adventure riding

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    The first real adventure (or actually dual-sport) bike that I bought was KTM 690 Enduro R.
    It was April 1st 2016…

    I didn’t have a proper GPS device to do the navigation when OffRoading with this bike. I was trying to manage with TomTom… But that just didn’t work! So the first proper GPS was
    Garmin GPSMap 64
    Pros: Easy to use, works with AA batteries, No bugs
    Cons: Difficult to use (no touch screen), Very small screen and not very bright

    Then the second device was Garmin Montana 600
    Pros: Very easy to use (Touchscreen)
    Cons: Problems with charging, not very bright screen

    Third was Samsung Active Tab 2 with Osmand App
    Pros: Super big screen, Osmand is very good App
    Cons: Problems with charging, didn’t like the Osmand maps

    Then I got Garmin Montana 700
    I also made a comparison video between Samsung Tab and Montana 700
    Pros: Easy to use, big screen
    Cons: Problems with charging, Not possible to adjust GPX track line thickness

    And then I got Garmin Zumo XT2
    I made a comparison video between Montana 700 and Zumo XT2
    Pros: Very bright screen, Very big screen, Very versatile and diverse to use
    Cons: Maybe too complex menu, Too high screen resolution (thin lines on the ToPo map are not easy to see!)

  • Insta360 X5

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    360° camera with excellent picture and video quality!
    Finally bought this camera and I’ve been testing it few times. The first ride with motorcycle I did about week ago and the video is in Youtube:

    I’m very happy that this camera has now the possibility to record 2 audio channels at the same time (same as AcePro 2). But there’s a prolem if I have them both with me and if they are both connected to my helmet phone! But that problem is sorted if I just unconnect the other one (probably this X5 will not be connected).
    On the next day we made a longer ride in Kiikala area! Now I had both of my cameras with me.

    Kiikala adventure

  • Spring service for “The Swan”

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    I named my bike quite long time ago as “The Swan” but I haven’t been using ti too much.
    This spring has been very lucky so far. No big technical problems with the bike! So I have a chance to do some smaller fixings and services. Here the bike is getting new a drivechain and sprockets. And also the brakefluid is now new!
    New chain is the same that was installed to the bike in autumn 2022: D.I.D. X-ring golden chain. Sprockets are the original size.

    The old chain I had in the bike about 20k km’s. I think it’s quite good amount!

    Front sprocket 15-teeth and new chain
    Finishing the chain
    JT Rear sprocket, 47-teeth
    Ready

  • 4 bikes and 1 pony

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    First time making a longer ride with a small group of bikes (in 2025).
    All the bikes in this ride are totally different!
    1. BMW G650XChallenge (my bike)
    2. CF Moto 450 MT
    3. Suzuki V-Strom 800DE
    4. Husqvarna FE501
    And we had a blast!

  • Season 2025 start

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    In January all the snow melted and in february we got only few cm’s more and that didn’t stay long…
    So before the March was even in the halfway…. I was riding!! Season 2025 is now started.

    I was riding again on sunday but the footage from that ride is not very good. So there’s no video coming from that one. But later this spring and summer… there will be more!

  • KTM about to fall?

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    KTM is doing fine, it’s the biggest motorcycle manufacturer in Europe. BUT…
    It just has totally too much of debt! It’s too early to say what will happen for this giant company.
    Maybe BMW will buy a part of the factory/ brand? Who knows?
    Here’s a video to watch:

    “KTM mechanics have been specially trained to remove a few thousand dollars from your wallet…”