I went for Åland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Poland. I’m making videos for each day of riding.
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Day 4:
Day 5:
Day 6:
Day 7:
Day 8:
Day 9:
Days 10 & 11:
Motoadventure
Since the TET App was taken down there has been a quite big need for TET route preview!
Now it’s finally possible! The TET “head office” was contacted by one rider and web developer who told he could build this kind of page. The application is 100% built in-house, collaboratively, and has been a great proof of concept for learning how can we harness the will to help from talented members of our community. We give you https://atlas.transeurotrail.org/
This page has these features:
– Collects general statistics about each country’s total length, and an always up to date total length of the TET as a whole.
– Displays all TET tracks on an easy to browse map.
– Shows waypoints (POI’s)
– Gives an overview of section numbers for each country.
– Provides information about names and lengths of sections.
– Points users to the main TET website country download pages.
– Has a link to email the linesman (report a problem on the track)
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!
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.
YouTubers from UK decided to ride TET Finland! They have 30k followers in their channel.
I started to follow them in the spring when Martha was about to get her licence for the big bikes. Then it was maybe in April when my Messenger had some questions from Mitch and about TET Finland. And It was actually quite close that we didn’t meet each other around Midsummer when I was riding in the north myself! I think it was Sunday when they were doing the Alta old post road and for me and my friends it was tuesday!
This is actually the first time when someone is doing a full series (10 episodes) of YouTube videos about TransEuroTrail Finland and I think the movies are very good!! First episode here:
They have also very nice instagram channel: Jammy Gits
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.
The weather forecast was saying that it will rain today but we desided to go anyway. And the plan was to ride north first to Enontekiö, then to Kautokeino (Norway) and from there we took the “Old Postroad” to Alta.
In Hetta (Enontekiö) we filled the tanks and in Norway border we took few pictures. For my friend Lauri it was his first time out from Finland with the motorcycle!
After 3 hours of riding we reached Kautokeino and we enjoyed lunch in Pit Stop Café & Restaurant. It was simple grillfood with very reasonable price. Here we got few drops of rain but other than that we had pretty nice weather all day!
Then 15km north from Kautokeino starts the challenge!
The Alta Old Post Road is very well known route for adventure riders! It had been my dream for many years and now I was here!
The south part is about 60km and it is the more challenging one. There’s actually no really hard parts but after 10-15 km of riding started the puddles and more rocky parts. I started to count how many big puddles there was but after 30 (something) I got confused in the calculations.
The last picture is from Mázejohka old bridge and it’s definitely on of the best-preserved bridges on the route! But soon after this comes the place where one Norwegian couple crashed badly few years ago.
The north part of the Old Post Road is almost like a normal road. You can drive there nicely with a normal car or with street motorcycle. And the scenery there is simply amazing!
The route for today was about 300km and it looked like this:
My friends Eero & Lauri took a different direction from Alta so after this day I was riding alone again. I found very nice cabin from Strand Camping with 51€.
The 30 minutes video of the day you can watch here:
My bike seems to work nicely!! I did already a trip to Himos and back.
The right side (365km) was the trip from my home to Himos and I was following TET Section 1 from Somero to Evo. That was super nice ride!
Then returning home I took the left route and it was only about 310km but it had also more than 50% of paved roads…
Then yesterday I changed the tires for my bike. Now I have Heidenau K60 and those are more like 50/50 tires but they also should last quite a lot of kilometers. Since in 3 days I’m leaving to my summer adventure trip… First I’m taking the train from Helsinki to Kolari and that will be 921km and it will last 14 hours!
Today I took a proper testride for my new tires. I checked one POI from TET Finland Section 5.
I was adding this place to the list of POI’s on last update and now I can say that it’s very nice place but there was no firewood and that’s a pity! Here’s a video from today’s ride:
So next sunday will be my first day far away north of Finland!
You can follow my trip here.
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