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TransEuroTrail 2021

Posted by gozamite on 26.7.2021
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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…

Sun is about to rise…

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)
Somewhere in Kiikala forest

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

Iso-Valkee as beautiful as always!
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.

Early morning in Kuohijärvi

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

These roads I was riding in EVO.
1 interesting road in EVO
Here I separated from Lauri

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:

2 days Enduro trip…

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

Seasonstart (for streetbike)

Posted by gozamite on 23.4.2020
Posted in: BMW S1000XR, Moottoripyöräily, motorcycling, S1000XR. Tagged: , , , . Leave a comment

Finally it’s nice weather and warm enough! So I didn’t need to put all my clothes to feel warm… S1000XR is out from garage!

The bike is very dusty…
Church of Loppi
Small beach in Saavajoki -river, Karkkila

The route we did was 250km’s -you can check the route from here:
https://www.myrouteapp.com/route/open/2952577

2020 SeasonStart

Posted by gozamite on 30.3.2020
Posted in: adventure, BMW motorrad, dirt bike, enduro, gravel road, KTM, Moottoripyöräily, motorcycling, yamaha. Tagged: , , , , . Leave a comment

This season I started later than in a long long time! But there’s quite obvious reason: Covid-19.
Last week there was already quite nice days but finally when I made the decision to go out on sunday it was quite cold! +3 (celsius) was the highest and -1 was the lowest. But at least we had sunshine!

Somewhere in Vantaa
I had to fill the tank!
With me was one KTM 1050 Adventure and yamaha XT660 Tenere
My XChallenge is running nicely!

The route for this day was something like this:

OneworldOneXR week 11

Posted by gozamite on 15.3.2020
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This week my account reached 10000 followers!!

OneworldOneXR week 10

Posted by gozamite on 7.3.2020
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MP Messut 2020

Posted by gozamite on 31.1.2020
Posted in: BMW motorrad, Ducati, Honda, kawasaki, KTM, motorcycle, motorcycling, S1000XR, Triumph, yamaha. Tagged: , , . Leave a comment

Motorcycle Exhibition in Helsinki 2020

Here are the most interesting new bikes (my opinion):

1. Suzuki V-Strom 1050
New V-Strom has design that reminds a lot the old DR 800 (and 750) adventure-bike from 80’s and 90’s. Now it has 1037cc V-Twin engine with 107 HP.

V-Strom 1050

2. BMW F900R & F900XR
1 year ago BMW brought new 850cc engine and now they made it even bigger! This new parallel-twin gives 105 HP and XR version makes nice small brother for the S1000XR adventure bike!

F900R
F900XR

3. Ducati Streetfighter V4
Ducati is now officially “the king of naked bikes”. This amazing bike has 208 HP and the bike weights only 180kg!!
You can update the exhaust and the bike will have even 220 HP!!!

4. Harley Davidson Livewire
HD makes a big surprise for quite many! It is bringing full electric bike with very reasonable price!! You can ride more than 200 km’s with one charge. And it’s totally silent.

HD Livewire

I spent few hours in MP Messut 2020 and took quite many pictures.
Here you can check my pictures.

October ride

Posted by gozamite on 19.10.2019
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It was almost 3 months that I didn’t ride with my XR! I didn’t even ride too much Enduro but at least few times… Now it was finally time to do some streetriding and because it was sunday I took also my wife with me! We checked our favorite places Fagervik and Mustio Castle.

First stop at Störsvik sandpit

The autumn colors are simply amazing at the moment so I took lot of pictures and I also had my drone with me.
In Fagervik we made the walk through the beautiful area up to the church.

Ironworks area of Fagrvik

Then we stopped in a small hill beside the road to take some pictures. I took the pictures with my drone. The place where we made our stop was about here.

Some dronepictures from Lähdelammentie

Then the last place to admire autumn colors was in Mustio. This beautiful garden aroung old buildings is simply amazing!

  • Mustio Castle area
  • Building in the garden
  • Bridge
  • @finrin
  • IronWorks area
  • Garden
  • Garden
  • Mustio Castle
Mustio Castle & Garden

This autumn has been very nice with all the colors in the nature!

Holiday 2019 Gozamite & Finrin Day 18

Posted by gozamite on 4.9.2019
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The idea was to ride from the south parts of Lithuania to Riga, Jurmala or Sigulda. But the weather forecast didn’t agree with my idea! There was crazy thuderstorm in that area and it wasn’t moving anywhere!!
So I choose the route more east.. and the whole day was about trying to avoid the rain! So almost all day we had dark clouds on our left side…

Dark clouds on the west!

It seemed that we would finally enter the Daugavpils (again) and I wasn’t too excited about this! -I didn’t wanna spend the afternoon and night in a same town where we were before! Just before we crossed the Latvian border we at least saw something nice! But this windmill was pretty much ruined already -what a pitty.

Obeliai windmill

There was a chance to choose the road straight north… And we were also talking that maybe we could ride in the rain also to get further… And when we arrived to Jēkabpils I had to stop and fill the tank. This was perfect timing!! While I was in the gas-station it started raining (like crazy)!

So me and my wife decided to stay here if there was a hotel or a nice guesthouse. And there was! Unfortunately this place was the worst in our trip!! It was very old house where they had made somekind of renovation but it wasn’t very good quality! The door was hanging about 1cm and it was difficult to close it. The worst part was the bed… It didn’t have any mattress pad… And in the morning when we wake up we both had some pain in the back!
Luckily there was at least something to see in this town and the restaurant was very nice!

The 330km’s route fot this day was like this:

Few more photos here!