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!

11 days adventure is done

Posted by gozamite on 5.7.2025
Posted in: adventure, BMW G650XChallenge, dirt bike, gravel road, helmetcamera, Insta360 AcePro 2, Moottoripyöräily, Motoadventure, Motorcycle Tour, TransEuroTrail, Video, videocamera, Youtube. Tagged: , , , , , , , . 1 Comment

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:

Tomorrow I’ll go

Posted by gozamite on 22.6.2025
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This is a big deal for me! I’m almost crying here at home as I sit down for the last night before my trip.
The last time I was on a long mc-trip with my ex-wife was in summer 2019. Then we’ drove’re riding 3 weeks to Croatia and back. It was a very good trip and I definitely thought even then that I should go again! Now I can.
Last summer I was trying but didn’t make it. That trip had to last at least a few more days than it did.
And it ended due to technical problems with the bike.
And when I finally got that rear shock working properly last fall so that it could handle longer trips, I started thinking and planning a longer trip in the winter.
At first it was in my mind that if it would be north again… But then I started to think all these places and things that are close to Finland. And made them as a bucket list for myself. So it turned into the plan and tomorrow morning I’m leaving to make this plan to come true.
For the first time in 6 years, a long bike ride is coming (Baltic Edge Adventure)!
(Hopefully there will be no problems with the bike)

TET Atlas is published

Posted by gozamite on 21.6.2025
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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)

12 days to my Summer 2025 trip

Posted by gozamite on 11.6.2025
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It feels like the days are exremely long and time is passing by very slowly for me.
But luckily I have few things I need to do for my bike before the midsummer festival and the monday after that weekend. Early morning on that day I will start my Adventure!
I will call it “Baltic Edge Adventure” and I even made my own introduction for the videos that I will publish from that trip. Here’s the intro video:

My navigation since the beginning of my Adventure riding

Posted by gozamite on 2.6.2025
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The first real adventure (or actually dual-sport) bike that I bought was KTM 690 Enduro R.
It was April 1st 2016…

I didn’t have a proper GPS device to do the navigation when OffRoading with this bike. I was trying to manage with TomTom… But that just didn’t work! So the first proper GPS was
Garmin GPSMap 64
Pros: Easy to use, works with AA batteries, No bugs
Cons: Difficult to use (no touch screen), Very small screen and not very bright

Then the second device was Garmin Montana 600
Pros: Very easy to use (Touchscreen)
Cons: Problems with charging, not very bright screen

Third was Samsung Active Tab 2 with Osmand App
Pros: Super big screen, Osmand is very good App
Cons: Problems with charging, didn’t like the Osmand maps

Then I got Garmin Montana 700
I also made a comparison video between Samsung Tab and Montana 700
Pros: Easy to use, big screen
Cons: Problems with charging, Not possible to adjust GPX track line thickness

And then I got Garmin Zumo XT2
I made a comparison video between Montana 700 and Zumo XT2
Pros: Very bright screen, Very big screen, Very versatile and diverse to use
Cons: Maybe too complex menu, Too big screen resolution (thin lines on the ToPo map are not easy to see!)

Insta360 X5

Posted by gozamite on 23.5.2025
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360° camera with excellent picture and video quality!
Finally bought this camera and I’ve been testing it few times. The first ride with motorcycle I did about week ago and the video is in Youtube:

I’m very happy that this camera has now the possibility to record 2 audio channels at the same time (same as AcePro 2). But there’s a prolem if I have them both with me and if they are both connected to my helmet phone! But that problem is sorted if I just unconnect the other one (probably this X5 will not be connected).
On the next day we made a longer ride in Kiikala area! Now I had both of my cameras with me.

Kiikala adventure