BMW G650XChallenge

Christmas 2025

Posted by gozamite on 24.12.2025
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After fixing my steering bearings I can ride again!!

I tried already on monday (22nd of December) but there wasn’t enough juice in the battery. So I had to charge the battery full and now I’m hoping it will still be ok at least for this winter (and spring – summer) because it’s already 2 years old battery.

So this morning (The morning of 24th of December) I took a ride with my motorcycle! It wasn’t too cold but it was little bit slippery because of the light snowfall. Everything in steering was working as it should!
Video here:

I wish you all will have a very merry Christmas!

Changing the steering bearing of XChallenge

Posted by gozamite on 15.12.2025
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Noticed in November that I had a little bit of Jamming in my steering. So I started to look for spare parts.
Luckily the bearing is the easy one to find! Found it (them) from Germany and ordered 2 bearings.
But soon I realized that maybe there is only 1 (??!!) Here is the picture from service manual:

Number 9 there is the bearing. But how on earth does it stay together at the bottom of the steering shaft? It’s a mystery to me? I didn’t open it yet… maybe I will soon.
This is how my bike looks at the moment:

Without the front wheel

November riding 2025

Posted by gozamite on 15.11.2025
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I was riding in the 8th of November but was it the last time?

It was in July 2024 when I had made the route in Bromarv peninsula for a short adventure. And I went there with the camera… but I forgot to take the spare battery! So I couldn’t shoot everything that time.
Finally now I made “the same” and now I had spare batteries for the camera.
There is also this one “famous” Padva beach on that Bromarv peninsula.

Updating TET Finland Section 13

Posted by gozamite on 26.10.2025
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I’ve been riding around Karkkila – Pilpala area now already 2 times to find the new route for section 13!
First time was 11th of October and second time was 25th of October.
In the map those 2 times look like this:

And luckily now I can say that Yes I have found the new route for the section 13 and the update will be published soon. I can definitely say that the area near Cafe Lättis has some very nice roads and tracks and now I know the area quite well.
Ofcourse I made the videos and you can watch them here:

Make sure you will always have the latest version of TET tracks when you go riding!
Download the TET Finland here: https://transeurotrail.org/finland/

Updating TET Finland Section 5 (my baby)

Posted by gozamite on 6.10.2025
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I’m calling this as “my baby” because it goes so close to the place where I live.
But the section 5 was updated quite many times since it was published with it’s full length.
It has “south part” from Siuntio to Turku and it has “north part” from Mynämäki to Räyskälä.
Now it was time to make the north part at least little bit better!
The section has mainly quite big gravel roads all the way from Mynämäki to Somero. Now I decided to check is there better and smaller roads between Heikin Laavu Lean-To shelter and Somero. This is only about 30km’s.

The new part of section 5 starts at 10:10

BMW Motorcycle club meeting

Posted by gozamite on 9.9.2025
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BMW Moottoripyöräkerhon alueiden tapaaminen

This post in Finnish only/ Eli kirjoitan tämän postauksen Suomeksi
Muutaman vuoden oltuani BMW Moottoripyöräkerhon jäsen oli ehkä vihdoinkin aika myös osallistua kerhon toimintaan. Eli päätin ajaa alueiden tapaamiseen Punkalaitumelle (ja takaisin kotiin myös).

Aikamoinen sumu oli aamulla! Näkyvyys oli kuitenkin riittävä ajamiseen mutta kypärän visiiri ei pysynyt kirkkaana eikä myöskään 360-kameran linssi (tai linssisuoja).

Ajoin menomatkalla Jokioisten kautta. Kartanon pihapiiri on kyllä täynnä upeita rakennuksia ja tämä Tapulimakasiini niistä se kaikkein kuuluisin!

Humppilan ja Jokioisten välillä kulkee myös kapearaiteinen junarata ja Jokioisten päässä on tähän liittyvä museo jossa ehdottomasti kannattaa käydä.

Sumu hälveni vasta reilusti kymmenen jälkeen!
Kuvasin tietenkin myös videon tästä reissusta, myös tällä videolla puhun suomea.

Riding in August

Posted by gozamite on 24.8.2025
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I was expecting that I wouldn’t have too much energy or will to ride after my long trip around the Baltic Sea. But I was wrong! I’ve been riding like crazy!
In the beginning of August I was riding back home after visiting Helsinki area. This video is in Finnish.

Then I started to think that maybe I should do at least 1 group ride because I know so many riders would like to join! Started to plan the route… But this ride ended in big embarrassment!

Took another ride for planning the route:

And then one ride with a friend:

And yesterday I took a ride in Hanko Peninsula (Some amazing tracks!)

And there’s still 1 weekend coming!!! Maybe for the group ride?

List of the ferries on my Baltic Adventure

Posted by gozamite on 5.8.2025
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(And one bridge)
1. Kokkila Ferry
For Free, 5 minutes, Kemiö island – Mainland

2. Nauvo Ferry
For free, 15 minutes, Mainland – Nauvo island

3. Korppoo ferry
for free, 5 minutes, Nauvo – Korppoo

4. Korppoo (Galtby) – Kökar – Överö (Åland)
17€, 5h 20min, 2 separate ferries, No cabin, So called archipelago ferry to Åland
You need to buy 1st ticket Galtby – Kökar and then another ticket Kökar – Lumparland

5. Överö ferry
For free, 1 minute, Överö – Finnholma Ön

6. Degerby (Föglö) ferry
For free, 30 minutes, From Föglö to the main islands of Åland

7. Eckerö – Grisslehamn
33€, 2 hours, No cabin, Shortest ferry between Åland and Sweden

8. Vaxholm – Rindö
For free, 10 minutes

9. Rindö – Stenslättens
For free, 10 minutes

10. Öresund bridge
33€, 15 minutes ride, Bridge from Sweden (Malmö) to Denmark (Copenhagen)

11. Rødby – Puttgarden
87€, 45 minutes, Ferry between Denmark and Germany

12. Gdansk – Nynäshamn (Polferries)
295€ with cabin (155€ bike + me and 140€ cabin + breakfast), 18 hours, From Poland to Sweden through the Baltic Sea

13. Stockholm – Mariehamn – Turku (Tallink)
109€ with lunch, no cabin, 11 hours, Ferry from Sweden to Finland

These were the prices in the summer 2025.

Swimming in 2025

Posted by gozamite on 26.7.2025
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It all started in April I think? The first time I went swimmimg (but I don’t have a video of that one).
The first time on the sea was 13th of June and that is in the video! (The dip is at 18:14)

Then I have on the video when I’m swimming in Sweden (the dip is at 10:09)

Then going to Lappohja beach (the dip is at 12:03)

Then going swimmimng to the lake that I didn’t go before (I didn’t take the video when I was swimming but the beach and the lake are at 11:38)

Then going to Hanko with bicycle, that was cool! (The swimming is at 02:54 & 12:58)

And then to the Iso-Simi -lake (I didn’t make a video of the swimming but the lake is at 06:55)

For this last video I even bought a thermometer for measuring the water temperature (4€!) because in the news they said that the water on lakes has gone over +25°! And yes, even this very deep lake with very clear water was 25-26°. This kind of temperatures are extremely rare here in Finland!
And yesterday it was also Jaakko’s day. According to popular belief, Jaakko throws a cold stone into the lake (and sea) and the water begins to cool down.

Fixing the bike

Posted by gozamite on 16.7.2025
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Started unscrewing things from my bike on Sunday.
I knew the airbox is fractured (broken) from the bottom. Exactly from the place where the breather line is connected to it. So I was thinking if I remove (and chenge) the airbox, maybe there is room enought to remove the fan also?
There isn’t!
But luckily the removing of the radiator is not so big job! After you remove side fairings from the bike you only need to remove the plastic cover of the radiator (1 screw) and then you can release the radiator itself (2 screws)! Here’s the whole “unscrewing things” video:

And the fan was like this:

And on monday I got the new fan for my bike. I ordered it from Poland. It was 70€ with delivery costs so not a bad price at all! The airbox is also new! I ordered it already last summer when I heard from Biketeam that it’s broken. Now finally I got it changed to a new one!
Yesterday I put everything back together in my bike and made a test ride.
It was almost +30° C!