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Accessories for my new bike part 4

Posted by gozamite on 28.10.2017
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I got these small boxes awhile ago. I made the order from Estonian motoshop Motokaup. The finnish reseller of SW Motech also has internetshop but this sucks! (R.M. Heino you can do better!!!)
First item:
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I never had sidestand extend before, but now I got one. I hope it will help to keep my bike up!
Second item:
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This is the ring that you must have if you want to use Bags Connection tank bags. I have one. I also had the ring in my previous bike but it wasn’t the original -it was a little bit modified by me. Bags Connection bags are made by SW Motech.

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Accessories for my new bike part 3

Posted by gozamite on 12.10.2017
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The Panniers…
In my previous bike I had the BMW original bags but they are quite small (35 litres I think?) so now I was thinking to get bigger ones. These are the bags I got:

Since I don’t have the bike yet I didn’t unpack all from the boxes but I took 1 picture in my carage:
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These are 45 litres each. I was very surprised how light they are!! Almost lighter than the plastic BMW-boxes. It will also take some time to be comfortable how these look… The BMW-boxes have some design and shape… These are just boxes!
Then I will also have a new topbox. That I will show you when I have it.
Here is another video about SW Motech Trax adventure boxes installation (This one is in German):

Accessories for my new bike part 1

Posted by gozamite on 4.10.2017
Posted in: BMW, BMW motorrad, Make life a ride!, moottoripyöräilyvarusteet, motorcycle, motorcycling, S1000XR. Tagged: , . 2 Comments

My old bike is for sale as you’ve seen from the previous posts. I also ordered the new bike already… I will have it maybe in february 2018.
I’ve been buying some stuff to this new bike already! The first package I got from Italy 2 days ago.
It’s the same aluminium plate for the top box that I had in my previous bike, Givi SRA5119 is the name of the part!
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I will add more “bling-bling” here always when I recieve the new package!

Corsetour Day 12

Posted by gozamite on 20.8.2017
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We will leave the alps today… Kind of makes me sad but actually we’ve had so much nice alpineroads that I’m waiting for everything that is about to come…
We started riding from our hotel in Davos and filled the tank in Davos Wolfgang (it’s a kind of mountain pass near Davos).
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Then we took the road 28 to west and finally arrived to Maienfeld. From there we took the nice road (St. Lutzisteigpass) to Lichtenstein.

We took a short break there in a gas-station and then we continued back to Switzerland.
The route we took is not possible to put in the google map, but it was a nice ride! A very narrow road through mountain-countryside in the westside of Grabs (if you just look the map you’ll get the idea!).

Then after some more riding to west it was time for our last mountainpass: Schwägalppass -This road doesn’t have too tight hairpin corners and for the locals it really was the route to check the limits of the bike and the rider!
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But not us, we were ridig easy and smooth…

After Schwägalp it was about riding the countryside roads first in Switzerland then in Germany. And just about 50km’s left we got some heavy rain too… But even before we found the place to stay for the nigh (In Hotel Gut Lauterbad near Freudenstadt) the roads were already dry.
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This hotel and restaurant is very much recommended for those who are very hungry!! The portions were huge!! This is for 2…
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The route for the day was about like this (Google maps will not show the route on the westside of Grabs)

Corsetour Day 10

Posted by gozamite on 8.8.2017
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This was about to come one of the hottest days in our tour so it was definately right decision to ride north via Autostrada! And after 2 hours of riding we’re already northside of Milano and riding the shores of Lago di Garda!
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In Autostrada we only took short breaks to fill the tanks and riders…
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In Garda we had 1 route to ride… The very special “Caveroad of Tremosine” in the westside of the lake. This was amazing short route where the road was sweeping inside the mountain. Here you can see the video of the ride:

And one photo too:
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We needed to ride few more miles before our destination…

The Hotel is very much recommended by me and the whole group! (Hotel Residence Panorama di Forca)
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The weather was so hot that you couldn’t see the Garda Lake… only some blurry/ foggy view.
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But in the night the situation was better!
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Also the restaurant in this hotel is very good!
Route for day 10 was like his:

 

Corsetour Day 8

Posted by gozamite on 4.8.2017
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This day is impossible to show in the map! Googlemap doesn’t simply show any routes that follows D81b (From Galeria to Calvi) but this is the route we took and we really enjoyed it!!

First we stopped for a swim in the lonely beach! There were other people too but really not too many! Then we kind of separated… I found a castle that was very interesting!
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There was a group of tourists listening on a guy who was talking and talking… But finally I got some information that this was a castle of Pierre Bonaparte who was a “ruler” of a Corsica for awhile.

Little bit north from this castle there was also a Chapel in a very beautiful area. There was also a beautiful road to this chapel with a huge helmet!
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Besides these the road D81b offered very beautiful views to the sea in many places!!
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In Calvi we chose pizzeria to eat something -it was one of the best pizzas is this tour. In the evening we choose a restaurant near our hotel -it was a beautiful place but for me the salad was very bad choice! (Restaurant Grill Ponte Vecchiu is recommended by my friends but not by me!)
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