What? Who is Vaune Phan? She is 27 years old blogwriter from Singapore. And she did quite a ride from Singapore to Mt Everest Base Camp (north). It was 7500 km’s through Malaysia, Laos, Thailand and China. And she did this with Suzuki 250ccm!! All I can say is WOW! Find the story and the blog from here: http://vaunephan.blogspot.sg/2015/06/day-1-beyondeverest-its-official-flag.html
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First I have to confess that this is my mistake! I didn’t read the conditions about making the change or cancelling the booking! But since I’ve been using booking.com quite many times (more than 50 bookings made!) I didn’t think this would be possible!
This guesthouse has this “special condition” about the cancellation (and possible changes). It says: “Please note, if cancelled or modified, 100 percent of the first night will be charged. Deposit: 100 percent of the first night may be charged anytime after booking.”
I made my booking in the beginning of december and then I cancelled it about 2 weeks later (and 7 months before the actual arrival time!!) So due to the regulations and this special condition I lost the whole amount of money already 7 months before I ever made any trip!!
This is not possible here in Finland! But maybe in Lithuania it is possible to cheat travellers like this! And for us motorcycle riders it is quite impossible anyway to make this in-advance bookings because you don’t know what happens tomorrow…
Here is the guesthouse: http://aismares.lt/
And here is their page in booking.com: https://www.booking.com/hotel/lt/aismares-guest-house.fi.html
If you’re using booking.com to find a place to stay, please always read the notes and conditions about cancellation or making changes to your booking!
I also put very negative feedback to trip advisor and google!
But this winter the southern parts of Finland have been very warm (so far) and today when it was time to make the old tradition in Turku at 12.00 -so called “The Declaration of Christmas Peace” there was maybe the biggest amount of motorcycles ever in the center of Turku!
About 30 bikes in this picture…
Sorry, this is only in finnish.
Suomalaisia kummituksia on tutkittu viime vuosina taas paljon. Kummitushaastatteluja on tehty Turun Linnassa, Vanajan Linnassa, Katajanokan vankilassa (hotellissa) jne. Ryhmä suhtautuu avoimesti kummistuksien olemassaoloon ja laitteillaan havaitsee ääniä ja välillä hahmojakin.
Hviträskiin on myös tehty pyyntö että päästäisiin kuvaamaan ja “haastattelemaan” mutta museo on toistaiseksi kieltäytynyt.
Lisää suomalaisesta kummitustutkimuksesta täältä: http://www.aavedata.com/
Video Turun linnan tutkimuksesta tässä:
Tickets are for sale NOW! This is going to be COOL happening in Finland in August 21. – 23. Street motorcycle races… All I can say is Wow!
In Finland buy them here
This amazing piece of machinery is now aviable…. ok not in the stores yet but the prize is known for all and it’s 24701 euros (in Finland). That makes it pretty much the same than BMW S1000XR and Ducati Multistrada… and these are the main competitors too!
The finnish introduction here (language is still english!)
It’s very aggressive lookig bike and I’m wondering if 1290 Sper Duke is called “The Beast” then what will this be???
What do you know about Finland? Most of you knows the capitol (Helsinki) or Sauna. Some of you knows Santa Claus, Kimi Räikkönen and Nokia.
But the main thing you need to know about Finland is the nature! The lakes and the forest, the silent wilderness all around. And it’s quite difficult to describe it in words…. so I’ll give a very cool video!
Video is not mine, it’s by Riku Karjalainen from Kajaani and I think it’s a masterpiece! (You can even watch it in 4K!)
And if you’re a little bit more interested then watch this (25 minutes!)
I bought the BMW original Engine Protection Bars long time ago and I was thinking to install them by myself. There was a manual with all the parts and when I looked at it…. I was thinking “Oh my God!” -this is many hours for me! So I waited until the season ended and now I did it!
First you need to remove almost all fairings from both sides of the bike. Ok, in the manual it says “first the right side, then the left side…” -Like this:
I’m already removed 1 bolt where the bar will be installed. Then you start to install the bar itself:
In the right side there is this triangle on the upper left that keeps the bar installed properly. I guess there must be some idea why they didn’t make the bar itself to go there?!
Then you remove the fairings from the other side and install the bar in its place:
Then you need to do some plastic cutting! From the left side you need to cut only a small piece -a kind of bridge from here:
Then there is a metal holder that needs to be installed (with the small hole drilled in to the fairing) and you put a screw (small silver one in the upper picture) to keep it all together without that small piece of plastic.
From the other side you need to cut a little bit more:
I had only a knife to do this! But it went well!
Then after cutting you can install the fairings back to the bike.
And when you’re ready, it should look like this (the right side):
And the left side:
It’s a little bit strange, since the bars are not symmetric it looks very weird from the certain POV:
But I guess the engineers in BMW know what they are doing?!
This is going to be introduced in one week! EICMA starts at 19th of november. It’s a mean machine! it’s supposed to have same powerful specs than SD 1290 but it has frames and panniers. There’s should be cruise control also.
What about how it looks? Well I think KTM is still going further away from being “ordinary”! This looks aggressive, killer, mean machine and I’m not sure if I like it or hate it!?
It’s november and I’m still riding! Yes it has been very nice weather with nice temperatures over 10 degrees celsius and sunshine. Today I got my newest toy: Sony FDR-X1000V action video camera. It has 4k video quality! And ofcourse I had to test it!
Now I need to buy a TV that has 4K resolution. my PC screen has it already.
And another here!
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