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:
adventure bike
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!
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!
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!
I’ve been bicycling quite a long time with my Montana MTB… I would say it was almost 30 years! Now I started to feel that I want a new one and from the small local shop I found this Madison Grizzly 29.
I’ve now done some bicycling with it 4 times and I’m very happy with it!
Here’s a video of my first ride:
And my 4th time I took already the train towards Hanko… but I didn’t go to the final station!
I jumped off the train in Lappohja (Lappvik) and first I wanted to ride to the beach and then continue to Harparskog line area. There is a lot of forest roads that are blocked with the gate so I can’t go riding there with my motorcycle. Bicycle is a perfect choice!
Here is the route:
This bicycle ride was so much fun!! I’m thinking to do something very similar also this weekend!
For this bike it’s a good idea to buy also the winter tires (I don’t need them now) and maybe in the future there’s going to be a lot more of bicycling content in this blog?!
here are the most significant new bike models from EICMA 2024.
At least what I think about the models revealed on the show…
Voge DS 800 Rally
KTM 390 Adventure R & Enduro R
Suzuki DRZ-4S
BMW F450GS (Concept)
Hieman yli 2 viikkoa sitten avattiin kysely TET Suomi reiteistä.
Vastauksia saatiin yhteensä 234 joista suurin osa ensimmäisen kahden päivän aikana.
Vastaajista yli 50% on ajanut TET-reittejä vähintään 1000km mikä kertoo siitä että reiti ovat erittäin suosittuja. Tässä yhteenveto vastauksista.
Lisäksi oli ns. “Oma sana” osio ja niistä kommentit ja vastaukset tässä.
This year MotoAdventureDays took place for the fourth time!
I missed the first year, but I was one of the the group leaders the second year and now it was already the third time for me. Each year has been an improvement so the challenges for next year’s event are getting pretty big (when/if there is still room for improvement?)
Here is my compilation video of the 2024 event:
Muutama foto lisää täällä!
After some resting I was ofcourse riding again. So in July I took some interesting adventures and explorations around the area where I live!
First ride was 15th of July. I was checking the most southern parts of the mainland in Raseborg.
This ride has interesting very narrow canal in the beginning. This canal almost everyone remembers because one boating accident that happened there 14 years ago.
The second ride was 20th of July. I was checking some of the best trails near my home. It was also quite hot day.
Third ride was 21st of July. That was the group ride for “Pohjolan kurapyöräilijät” (Nordic dirt riders). We had super fun day!
Next ride was 23rd of July. I was finally checking the Kemiö island, the second biggest islanf in Finland.
Next ride was 27th of July. It is the seven sleepers day in Finland.
The last ride of July was on the last day of July. That I did with my friend Lauri in Hanko area.
I also shared a “remix” video of one of the best parts of that ride in Hanko area.
In August it will be the MotoAdventureDays again. I’m one of the team leaders (“Peura”) and I’m also doing some presentation about TET Finland. See you there!
I spent the night in Rovaniemi in someones private home. I never met this guy before and he was still offering me this. Some great people still exist! In the morning I continued my route south from Rovaniemi (ok, first it was east, then south). This was still TransEuroTrail Finland section 7.
I had about 130km route to check and first 40km were excellent!
In the video it’s the first 5 minutes…
Finally I was in the crossroads with TET section 19. Now I had to make a decision about where to next??
But that decision was actually made for me because on the previous evening I noticed that my front fork was leaking badly and the rear shock was soft (again!).
So when I cought some paved road I started to ride to south (I wasn’t thinking yet that I will ride as fast home as possible but that’s exactly what happened.) First I rode to Ranua… then to Pudasjärvi… and soon I was in Oulu and I took a swim in a nice beach of Vihiluoto.
I couldn’t find accommodation that was cheap enough so I continued all the way to Pyhäsalmi and stayed in a small cabin in Emolahti camping area (40€).
The route for the day 6 looked like this:
North Adventure Day 7 was only the ride back home on the paved road. I got heavy rain from Jämsä to Padasjoki.
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