adventure

Adventures goes on

Posted by gozamite on 2.6.2022

Posted in: adventure, adventure bike, BMW G650XChallenge, BMW motorrad, dirt bike, enduro, gravel road, motorcycle. Tagged: adventure, BMW, motorcycling, motorrad, TransEuroTrail. Leave a comment

Springtime was so short! It started in the end of April and soon in May you will start to feel like it’s summer already. And I had so many ideas about new possible routes for transeurotrail.
First idea was to make additional route Helsinki – Turku. There was already one but it was going from Turku to the TET route and to connect to it in Räyskälä (almost 100km away from Helsinki). So I started to check my plans in the beginning of May.

Here I’m riding the few possible selections Between Karjaa & Perniö and also all the way to Teijo ironworks area. I made second checking ride a week later and I was checking the possible routes between Salo and Lieto. I found only private yards and tracks that were impossible to ride.

The new update for the TET route was made on 13th of May!
On that same day I was riding again! For that ride I found interesting start From Karjalohja: A very small ridgeroad going between two lakes (Kannaksentie) -but there are quite many summercottages on the way, I’m not going there again.

The part in the end of this video comes to Ruonankorventie that I have recommended to quite many riders that they should check this. I was riding from Lohiojanie to Lemmulantie and then to Ruonankorventie.
On May 15th I was inviting riders to make a group-ride to Iso-valkee and 15 bikes came to make a very nice ride together!! You can see some pictures here! I made also a video:

Then in the end of May (Helatorstai/ Ascension Day) I made a ride to check some small roads and tracks on Hanko Peninsula. Found some very good ones! Here’s the video:

Waiting to ride again!!

Season 2022 Start

Posted by gozamite on 6.5.2022

Posted in: adventure, adventure bike, BMW G650XChallenge, BMW motorrad, dirt bike, enduro, Finnish Nature, Moottoripyöräily, Motorcycle Tour, Off-Road, Spring Is Coming. Tagged: adventure, Adventurebike, BMW Adventure, BMW Enduro, BMW G650XChallenge, Enduroride. Leave a comment

Finally after a winter with HUGE amount of snow it was possible to start riding!
And I did it with 4 times riding in one week. The weather was already quite warm -not like I needed to put all possible clothes on me.
First day ride was less than 100km like this:

Second day I was checking one place where was flooding.

Here is the short video of the place where the river was flooding!
I made a riding video of this next days ride.

Riding to the border of Varsinais-Suomi

Snow was mostly gone but lakes had still ice!

The temperature was something like 10-13 degrees -so not too cold anymore!

And then on saturday I got three friends with me and we did already almost 200km!

And here is the video of the ride:

Spring ride 2022

And there is more to come!!

Tartu & Lake Peipus spring 2022

Posted by gozamite on 24.4.2022

Posted in: adventure, East Europe, Estonia, History, Matkustus, nature. Tagged: Estonia, Lake Peipsi, Lake Peipus, Tartu, Travelling. Leave a comment

First time visiting foreign country in more than 2 years!
Tartu is second largest city in Estonia. It has very long history since it got the city rights in 13th century and it was already quite important town for Teutonic order.
Only place/ building that is left from medieval times is the fortress hill and the cathedral that stands on the top of the hill. It is quite interesting church because it’s mainly ruined but one part of the old church is reconstructed and they are still using it!
We came to Tartu by car to spend 2 full days exploring the area. And The city of Tartu is not that big so we also checked Lake Peipus (Lake Peipsi) and few villages close to it.

We also checked the Tähtvere park and the area of National museum. That museum is quite amazing building (Built in 2016) -to take a picture of this I should have my Drone with me! But you get the idea from the picture in Wikipedia.

Then on the second day we visited Lake Peipsi. The first village that we visited was Räpina (Sillapää Loss), then Mehikoorma lighthouse and Meerpalu rand, then Kavastu Praam (manual ferry) and finally Alatskivi Loss and Kallaste rand.

Estonia is not very big country but there is so much to see. You should stop in every small village and probably you will be surprised by the history or by the people! And it’s only 2 hour ferry trip from Helsinki Finland!!

BMW G650 XChallenge rear shock change

Posted by gozamite on 5.1.2022

Posted in: adventure, adventure bike, BMW G650XChallenge, dirt bike, enduro, Off-Road, Video. Tagged: Air Damper, BMW G650XChallenge, Rear shock, Touratech. Leave a comment

I did this already 2 months ago but finally I edited the video how I’m making the BIG impovement to my bike… Changing the rear shock from the original Continental Air Damper to Touratech “normal shock”.
I hope this can help you if you’re planning this change!

BMW X-Series

Posted by gozamite on 21.12.2021

Posted in: adventure, adventure bike, BMW, BMW G650XChallenge, BMW motorrad, dirt bike. Tagged: adventure, BMW, BMW G650XChallenge, BMW X-Series, motorcycle. Leave a comment

These were quite extraordinary bikes 15 years ago! And I own one! That’s why it’s very nice that advrider.com made a srory about these bikes together with bigger HP. Enjoy!
https://advrider.com/revisiting-the-bmw-g450x-g650x-and-hp2/

New hobby: Sup Board

Posted by gozamite on 28.8.2021

Posted in: adventure, Finnish Nature, nature, summertime, Supping, Video. Tagged: Finnish lakes, Supboard, Supping, Visit Raseborg. Leave a comment

I didn’t try this ever but a quite long time I was very interested. First I bought the board for my wife (she was talking about it almost all the time…) And because this summer was so nice I bought one also for myself!

She tried the board first time 20th of June

Even this board was very cheap it turned out quite ok! It keeps the direction even better than mine.

My first time wasn’t very lucky! The paddle wasn’t tight enough and the blade of the paddle was gone! It went to the bottom of the lake. But soon I bought another paddle so I could go supping with my wife.
First time together we checked Lönnhammarinjärvi. That is not very big lake and water is very clear!
Our second time together was Grabbskog Storträsket. There we spent quite many hours paddling from the beach all the way to the grilling place of Västerby recreation area. That lean-to is on the otherside of the lake -it would be at least 6km’s of supping. Also the views on the lake made me decide that I want to have a camera on the next trip!
This next trip was in 25th of July. I chose the lake called “Iso Simi” which is very rare lake here in Raasepori. It doesn’t have houses built on the shore (or only a few near the road).

After we took a short walk at the other end of the lake I started to take videos. Until now I had my DJI Osmo Action hanging on my neck but now I needed to keep in the hand so that there would be some sense in shooting.
This is what I got:

Amazing Lake Simi in Raasepori

All shores of the Lake Simi are Nature reserve area. It means that camping and pretty much everything else is not ok. They are trying to keep the whole lake in it’s natural state.

TransEuroTrail 2021

Posted by gozamite on 26.7.2021

Posted in: adventure, BMW G650XChallenge, dirt bike, motorcycling, Off-Road, TransEuroTrail. Tagged: BMW Enduro, BMW G650XChallenge, BMW motorrad, TET Finland, TransEuroTrail. Leave a comment

In the beginning of July 2021 the Linesman of Finland (Roland from Austria) gave the task to me!
I was ofcourse very flattered about this and I was thinking should I take such a responsibility to me since I’m not very active rider anymore, But from the other hand I want to be more active! So here’s my reason to go riding Enduro more often!

I’m the new Linesman of TET Finland!

For my first active thing I went riding! Took my XChallenge very early in the morning…

I didn’t have too much planning done. First to ride to Iso-Valkee lake and to the TET route and then start to follow the route to Hämeenlinna and beyond. My main goal was to change the eastern route to go to EVO -area.
It was about 1,5 hours ride to Iso-Valkee.

Just before Kisko Kko (Church village of Kisko)

About 6.30 am I arrived to Lake Iso-Valkee -I had the video camera also with me!

This place is already in Kanta-Häme (Tavastia proper)

Riding up to the lake highlands of Tavastia… 150 meters AMSL

Getting closer to Hämeenlinna

Short visit to Aulanko area in Hämeenlinna

And the TET route goes through Parola military area…

FInally I found the place to stay for the night quite close to EVO area and next morning I would meet Lauri and we would ride together few interesting roads of EVO.

After 2 days of riding in this interesting area I can say that I know area quite well!

1 interesting road in EVO

I wasn’t sure where to ride on the 2nd day but the bike was making some strange sound! I got little bit help from Autohuolto Markku Ruuskanen in Luopioinen to find out that it wasn’t the rear wheel bearing that was making sound.
But I still decided to continue riding south… I was thinkin maybe to spend the night somewhere in Forssa (???)

I checked this Off-Road route near Toijala

But finally it was riding all the way back home! And it almost 400km’s in one day!
The whole trip was like this:

And after few days of planning the new TET Finland route is ready for download!

Kopparö Naturetrail

Posted by gozamite on 29.7.2020

Posted in: adventure, Drone, Eläimet, Kävely, Matkustus, nature, summertime, Travel, Video, walking. Tagged: Kopparö, Nature Trail, Riippusilta, Suspension Bridge, Tammisaaren saaristo. Leave a comment

Kopparö recreation area is located in Raasepori and you need to take a short ferry ride to enter the Sher Landet (Skärlandet) island.

After you park your car and start walking the trail is very wide in the beginning. But soon you will see small bay on the right side and the trail is getting smaller. Here you will go across the suspension bridge.

The structure of the bridge is quite scary. I will share a video in the end of this blog about it.
Right after this bridge we started to hear bird screaming with very high note. It was like “Kvik – Kvik – Kvik!” But the volume of the shouting was extremely loud. And only few minutes after this we saw them flying in the sky -Two White-tailed eagles!

About 100m above our heads

This was a second time for me when I’m seeing this mighty bird. I guess these were two young ones because they were shouting all the time!
(Mama! Mama! Look at me! I’m flying!!)
Soon there was another bridge so we moved from Långön island to Stora Sandö island. This is like the “Main island” of the Nature path.

The trail goes almost around the island and because it was quite warm we chose to turn to the left. I knew there would be a place for swimming!

We didn’t have our swimming suits with us but it wasn’t a problem. We both did the the skin-dipping!
The walk between Sandöedet and Stora Sandö grilling places is the most beautiful part of the trail! You can walk almost all the time very near to the sea and admire the clear water of the Gulf of Finland!

We reached the grilling place of Stora Sandö and took another break there to eat our snack. I also made a Droneflight to take few pictures and the video of this beautiful area.

Stora Sandö

After our snack my wife started to collect blueberries. Soon the half-a-liter bottle that we had was full of berries and we got to eat fresh blueberry pie at home!
The whole trail is almost 8km walk and we did it all!
In the map it looks like this:

In the beginning of this blog I said about the suspension bridge that I was little bit worried. So I made a video about it. It’s only in Finnish.

Kopparö riippusilta

Holiday 2020 Day 14

Posted by gozamite on 24.7.2020

Posted in: adventure, autoilu, Matkustus, nature, Reisen, summertime, Travel, walking. Tagged: Kuopio, Lietvesi, parking, Snellmannin puisto. Leave a comment

After packing our stuff and cleaning the cabin it was time to drive again. It was 50 km to Kuopio where we made about 2 hours stop. It was 1st time for my wife in this beautiful city.
We parked the car to the new garage they have under the market square and came up to make a walk in the city center.

I have a BIG minus comment about the parking garage!!
We went down to our floor (underground) from the side of this market hall and there was a sign that there will be this payment machine. But there wasn’t!! I had to walk to another elevator to find the damn thing!
KUOPIO! Not like this!
Our route went off from E4 highway in Juva but I had chosen quite small gravel road. Finally we entered the Pistohiekka & Lietvesi area. There is one special viewing point just beside the road.

From here it was only 80km’s to Imatra so in the afternoon we’re back in our house in Meltola. The summertour was over.
The route for this day was like this:

Holiday 2020 Day 13

Posted by gozamite on 22.7.2020

Posted in: adventure, autoilu, DJI Mavic, Drone, Matkustus, nature, summertime, Travel, walking. Tagged: Ahkionlahti, Canal, finland, Korkeakoski, Maaninka, Savonia. Leave a comment

We woke up little bit earlier than normally and had breakfast. Then we took a short drive to Korkeakoski (High rapids). 08.10am we were ready to start exploring…

Korkeakoski is the highest rapids in Finland

There was also a naturepath starting from the rapids but we didn’t read any reviews of the path. It was a bit disappointment since the path didn’t follow the river in the canyon. Anyway the thick Savonian forest was beautiful but there were totally too many mosquitos!!

After getting back to the cabin we started packing our stuff… But while we were packing we suddenly decided to stay in this beautiful place one more night! So we didn’t pack our stuff but we headed to the canal that was also nearby.

Ahkionlahti Canal -or actually two canals

There’s actually 2 canals, the old one is built in 1866-74 and it was mainly used for log driving. But in the same time the population in Savonia was growing and people started to use boats to move around our country… The new canal was built in 1981-83.

The total length of the canal is few hundred meters and the distance between two block gates is 240 meters. The difference of the surface in these two lakes is about 3,5 meters. I made also a short flight over the old canal…

Ahkionlahti Old Canal

Since we didn’t actually drive anywhere I’m not putting the route…
Ahkionlahti Canal is located about 6,5km’s northwest from Maaninka.

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