MotoAdventureDays 2023

Posted by gozamite on 25.8.2023
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This summer was third time for this amazing AdventureBike event in Himos!
I’m lucky and very happy I can be one of the Team Leaders -This time for red – black routes (Team 13).
Here’s the video how I made it to the event:

Then after one day of resting and chilling out at Himos it was time for some action! Thursday was the first day for riding!

That first ride on thursday was very fun!! On the next day I did it with the group and it was much more difficult! We made 25 kilometers in 2 hours! That episode is here:

Episode 3 here:

The lengths of the TET tracks in Europe

Posted by gozamite on 23.7.2023
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This info I got from Joost Bijl

When I was planning the routes and sections of TET Finland I definitely wasn’t thinking that we would end up being the second longest TET route in Europe!! But here we are:
1. France 13,300 km (29 sections)
2. Finland 9700 km (20 sections)
3. Poland 9600 km (14 sections)
4. Spain 8400 km (27 sections)
5. Turkey 6500 km (20 sections)
6. UK 6400 km (21 sections)
7. Georgia 4900 km (29 sections)
8. Greece 4600 km (15 sections)
9. Italy 3900 km (17 sections)
10. Estonia 3300 km (10 sections)
11. Sweden 3300 km (6 sections)
12. Hungary 3250 km (11 sections)
13. Bulgaria 3000 km (11 sections)
14. North Macedonia 2400 km (11 sections)
15. Norway 2250 km (4 sections)

Total length of all tracks is 100,039 km (September 2023)

Check more info from this photo:

TransEuroTrail Finland is ready

Posted by gozamite on 19.7.2023
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I don’t have any plans at the moment to add new sections.
Last update was done this morning and the sections 10 and 17 were added:

Section 10
Section 17

You can read little bit more about the different sections from here.
This is how TET Finland 9700 kilometers of Adventure Riding looks like:

Holiday Adventure Day 4

Posted by gozamite on 14.7.2023
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Day started with morning swim, breakfast and packing the bike. Before 9 AM I was ready to start riding!

Weather forecast looked quite bad fot the afternoon so I wanted to ride as far as possible before the rain.
After Savonlinna there was a long challenging part. In the video this starts at 06:00.
I took 1 picture in that part:

Luckily that wasn’t so hard because I was able to go around!
After Juva there was quite long and little bit boring part with ordinary Finnish countryside roads and I got my first raindrops… I decided to put on the rainsuit. But while I was putting the rain gear I noticed the front wheel! There was 2 new spokes broken and they were just beside the previous ones. So now I had 4 spokes missing from a very short part of the rim. I was thinking right away that I can’t continue riding with this bike! My holiday adventure ended there… About 150km’s before Jyväskylä.
Called a towing car and got a ride to Mikkeli and took the train back home…

This was the route for the day:

And the entire adventure looked like this on the map:

Holiday Adventure Day 3

Posted by gozamite on 12.7.2023
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“The rainy day”
The weather forecast promised that during the day it would come better, the rain would stop and there would be sunshine. But it didn’t!
So I didn’t stop too many times and I didn’t take too many pictures.

On the north side of Imatra TET Section 4 is following “Niska-Pietilä” museum road and not too far north from this road I turned away from TET.
I was now checking the new possible section 10. And it had right away very nice parts that you can see in the video starting from here. It was amazing roads and tracks all the way to Punkaharju.
And in Punkaharju the route goes of course from the old ridge road that was voted as the most beautiful road in Finland. It’s called now as “Vuosisadan tie” (The road of the century).

Before Savonlinna quite luckily just beside this “new TET-route” there was sport resort Tanhuvaara and I stopped to ask the price for the room. It was a big surprise when they said 55€! And the breakfast was included. I didn’t think too long to choose this! Later in the evening I was riding to Savonlinna to eat something and I found quite good Chinese restaurant.
The video of the day:

Holiday Adventure Day 2

Posted by gozamite on 10.7.2023
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Day 2 was about continuing the section 41 to east and then turning to section 4 to noth.
The route for the day was like this:

After I started following the TET route I came almost right away to Strömfors.

Gozamite at Strömfors

And then quite soon the TET route was mostly about very nice forest roads! Just before the route goes to the south side of Highway 7 there is this:

Yes we have toilet for TET riders! Actually I don’t know why they are there in the middle of forest?? The video of the day is here:

Holiday Adventure Day 1

Posted by gozamite on 9.7.2023
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My own summer holiday started in the beginning of July. I had a plan to go and check TransEuroTrail section that was planned ready and route was made but it needed to be checked before it can be live.
This section is East-West Section Parikkala – Jyväskylä.
And I also wanted to do more TET-riding all together. -To finally see all that I’m responsible of!
So on the 3rd day of my holiday I started. Route for Day 1 looked like this:

From the west it was first Section 5 until it reaches section 1 in Siuntio. Then only the “beginning part” of Section 1 until I could continue Section 41 going around Helsinki and ride further east…

Hopom Lake & Magic Beach

Then after Hopom Lake I turned away from TET to ride to Loviisa and meet a friend who lives there. I was also offered to sleep the night…
Here’s the video of the Day 1:

Day 2 will follow soon!

Midsummer Adventure

Posted by gozamite on 4.7.2023
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DAY 1: Just by random I was checking prices for midsummer night from booking.com.
And from Ylöjärvi I found place to stay… with bed, toilet, shower and basic kitchen stuff with 39€ when all the other places were something like 150-200€. So friday morning I started riding!
This was very early in the morning. First I was heading to Kylmäkoski -to the same place where I started checking TET Finland Section 2 update 1 week ago. But back then I was checking it from Kylmäkoski to south. Now I was planning to take the route north towards Sastamala and Hämeenkyrö.

And of course I made a video of the first day ride!

The route wasn’t as good as the route south from Kylmäkoski but it wasn’t too bad. I accept!

DAY 2: The place where I was sleeping used to be a school “Voionmaan opisto”. The room was pretty perfect with the toilet, shower and basic stuff for kitchen. And yes -the price was 39€ for midsummer night!
There was a slight risk of rain and thunder in the afternoon so I decided to take a shorter and faster route back home. I still saw some amazing places!

I also mad a video of the second day ride!

The routes that I was riding were like this (blue was the one on friday and red on sunday):

Next time I will do wild camping also!! I tried couple years ago and my back didn’t like it. Lets see how it will go now…

Loaner bike BMW F800GS

Posted by gozamite on 28.6.2023
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Biketeam Finland was helping me in a difficult situation. I got a loaner bike for one week since I had some interesting things to do (with motorcycle)!
This was before I got my own bike back.

It’s 2009 model and it has 52000km’s in it. And there’s quite many additional parts (windshield, head lamp protectors, crash bars and skid plate and extra lights to mention a few).
On the first day I went riding with a friend who makes stories about cars and motorcycles to Finnish magazine Kauppalehti. This time he had new Suzuki V-Strom 800DE in the test. Here’s the story he wrote to the magazine: https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/suzukin-keskikokoinen-seikkailee-asfaltilla-ja-maastossa/19eb1bf4-94b3-4d12-8bbd-3aabf38d4fa5

It was an interesting ride! To realize that Suzuki is very capable of doing pretty much same things than BMW GS. The ground clearance is little bit shorter and factory tires wouldn’t be ok in muddy conditions but otherwise the difference to GS is almost zero. We did also some “OffRoad” riding! Here’s the video:

The next day I did already pretty much same kind of riding with this GS than I usually do! Checking TransEuroTrail Tracks. And also some offroad tracks. GS feels heavier than my own XChallenge especially in the tricky parts. But other than that the 800GS is very “Adventurous”! Here’s the video:

I would enjoy more riding with GS compare to my own bike if I would do many days long trip. In the paved road this bike feels pretty much like any other road bike and when you come to the gravel roads and smaller forest tracks it is still very capable doing all you want.
The big Touratech screen I would change to smaller right away -I didn’t like it!

This bike is for sale in Biketeam (Sold!)

Same week I had also presentation about TransEuroTrail Finland. Check the presentation video
(Finnish language) here.

TET Finland Sections

Posted by gozamite on 17.6.2023
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Officially you can check the different section numbers from TET Atlas.
https://atlas.transeurotrail.org/
Remember these previews are not necessarily correct.
The Sections will have updates after this!

Section 01


Our “Main Section” That goes from Helsinki to Norway. This Section has the most variation in landscape and in different road types.

Section 02


This section starts from Renko and connects back to section 1 in Kuusamo. Section 2 has some interesting historical landmarks and nice technical part in the north before Kuusamo.

Section 03


Section 3 is from Turku to Enontekiö goes in the most western parts Of the country. There are some nice technical parts between Raahe and Oulu.

Section 04


Section from Vaalimaa to Raate road. This section goes very close to Russian border and you will probably meet the border patrol. You need to be careful that you have enough gasoline after Lieksa.

Section 05


Section in southwest Finland. Has some nice technical parts.

Section 06


Section from the eastside of Helsinki to north.

Section 07


Section starts from the westside of Taivalkoski and it ends to the most northern point of EU.

Section 08


Section in the “Middle of Finland”. Some nice technical parts and soft sand.

Section 09


Section between sections 01 & 02 (from the lake Ala-Luosta to the Lake Oulu)

Section 10


From East to west with Thousands of lakes…

Section 11


Section to Niekka Hill

Section 12


Section between sections 03 & 02 (Pudasjärvi, Taivalkoski). It has one manual ferry!

Section 13

Section “Lättis”. The most famous motocafe.

Section 14


Section from Helsinki to Vaalimaa.

Section 15


Section between 3 and 2 (from Siikainen to Hämeenkyrö)

Section 16


Section between sections 02 & 03 (from Kinnula to Eskola)

Section 17

Section between sections 03 & 01 (Tervola, Kemijärvi)

The sections has updates all the time so remember to Download the latest GPX before you go to the TET. The right place to download the GPX file is transeurotrail.org/finland