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Riding first time after accident

Posted by gozamite on 27.9.2017
Posted in: adventure, enduro, gravel road, KTM, motorcycling, nature, Off-Road. Tagged: , , . Leave a comment

Yes, after 9 weeks I finally thought I can try. Neck and back didn’t feel too bad and I had my KTM ready and fixed back home so lets go!
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This is kind of my favorite place now! It’s very near and you can always take a good picture here (Just beside Espoonkartano).
I had the idea NOT to ride any offroad parts… but when I noticed a new trail in place I didn’t see before I just had to go there…
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I can tell now it wasn’t a good idea!! Because next night I had much more pain almost everywhere and I suffered a lot while I was sleeping!
But it is autumn now. I fould a huge stack of pink hay bale and they looked weird.
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It was a great day for a ride so it was nice to take pictires in beautiful places!
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It is still easy to find place where you don’t see the autumn colours… But then again if you find some mapletrees you can really see the autumn is here!
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But after this weekend I can say that maybe it’s not the right time yet. My back still hurts and becouse I can’t stay away from offroad parts it’s better to wait.

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Serious accident

Posted by gozamite on 30.8.2017
Posted in: actioncamera, enduro, gravel road, KTM, motocaching, motorcycling. Tagged: , , , . Leave a comment

I was just returned from my Corsetour Europa trip. I was already working and it was the first weekend… I didn’t feel like riding with BMW, so I called few friends and we took a ride with Endurobikes. This time it was not about hard and wet parts -but mainly about nice and easy gravelroads.
The route was more than 200 km’s and we had some lunch in the Räyskälä airfield.
I had my helmetcamera with me and I did shoot all the “nice parts”:

And about 8km’s after the last video in the paved road it happened!
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Green is me, red is the car.
(I don’t have any memory of the accident so I’m telling what my friends have told me!)
I was about to ride forward of the mainroad. I was riding below the speed limit (about 70-75km/h). There was old guy driving a mercedes and he was about to turn left to the small road. He told he didn’t see us coming so he just turned left…
I had about 1-2 seconds to break before I crashed to the right-front corner of the Mercedes. My bike was making fast rotation on the ground after the crash while I was flying over the frontend of the car. After the car there were some mailboxes standing beside the road -I hit those before I crashed to the ground (head first) and stayed there in the bottom of the dike.
Very soon there was people who actually could help! And the ambulance was there after 20 minutes. They took me to the hospital in Espoo and from the x-rays they could see that 2 of my cervical vertebrae (neckbone) was broken.
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But very luckily 2 days after the accident I was talking with the doctor and he said that even the bones are fractured, they are all in perfect order and position!!! So nothing is changed in my nerves and I was very much able to walk and do everything else as I was doing before the accident…
Now it’s little bit over 1 month from the accident and my life is almost normal already. I’m very careful with my neck and I am using the headrest almost all the time! But besides the stiffness of the neck I feel pretty normal and I can only wonder that it has been a miracle how lucky I was!
Recovering has been very fast!

Holy saturday ride

Posted by gozamite on 16.4.2017
Posted in: actioncamera, adventure bike, dirt bike, enduro, HDR quality, helmetcamera, Honda, KTM, motocaching, motorcycling. Tagged: , , , . Leave a comment

The temperature went down for easter! It was something like -5 during the night and didn’t go up more than close to zero in the daytime. But still we desided to take a ride!

This is my first time to the top of the sandpit wall! I’ve tried it maybe two times before in this place, but now finally I made it!
In this same video I almost fell in good speed because the ground is frozen and I loose control of the rear wheel! You can see this in 09:35.
The second video is from Rausjärvi:

This same road I rode a day before and it was much more soft. Now the cold weather and the frozen ground made it quite easy.
Third video is a fast gravelroad from Ahonpää (Nummi-Pusula) to Antiainen (Karkkila):

Next video is 4 bikes going over the stream in Lammassaari:

I also made a short video to IG just a few minutes before:

And for the last I was shooting a video when my battery died, this was in Karkkila:

And finally one of my friends had a helmetcamera too and he desided to make a collection from yesterday. This is fun to watch!

Thanks Ville for the video!!

Winter is not over yet!

Posted by gozamite on 29.3.2017
Posted in: actioncamera, enduro, gravel road, HDR quality, helmetcamera, KTM, Moottoripyöräily, motorcycling. Tagged: , . Leave a comment

Last sunday it was three KTM 690 Enduro bikes testing the forestpaths in Kirkkonummi and Siuntio. The roads are mostly dry but the forest has much more shadowplaces and it means more snow and ice!
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The first video is a track I found last summer… But in the summertime it’s too wet, now it’s mostly ice:

I fell through the ice there and it’s not easy to move the bike away from the hole with the boots that has no grip! But I did it…
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Second video is a ride near aluminium factory in Pikkala:

And third video is a very nice track under the powerline between Karskog and Evitskog:

I did not have any spikes in my tires so for me it was very slippery and I had to be very careful!
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