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GoZa Mite

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  • Advestonia Day 3

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    This day was about to ride back to Estonia. I didn’t know where I would end up… Where I would be sleeping the next night?
    Right outside of the town I was following the TET Latvia and for my big surprise there was a river crossing!! And the stream was so strong in the river so I had to put my feet down… and I got a lot of water inside my boots!
    But it didn’t feel too bad so I ride all the way to Valmiera where I stopped in some gas station and changed my socks and tried to make the boots dryer with some paper… It maybe helped a little!

    I was still choosing the roads from the map just as I was riding towards Valga and Estonia and I did find some amazing small roads and tracks (Check the Video at the end of this post!)


    I didn’t take too many pictures on this day because the riding was so super nice and the roads and tracks were so super cool.
    The last break I had in a small village of Sõmerpalu and there I made my decision about the next place to stay the night. That would be in Võru town.

    The video of the Day 3 is here:

  • Advestonia Day 2

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    This day I started very early because weather forecast promised some rain. I was already 06.30 on the southside of Pärnu doing some hard tracks of the TET!

    I had to make one major U-turn while trying to find the way out of this area. Such a perfect place to spend a day but I was more about getting forward… wanted to see some other places too!

    I finally made it to the beach and I was riding south on The Old Pärnu road. I stopped to check the Baltic Sea from the Viewing Tower on Kabli Beach.
    Right after I was in Latvia I chose the road that goes straight to the east. And after Korģene village I was riding quite a long time on the paved road to reach the town of Limbaži where I had my first longer break. I tasted some Latvian rhubarb pie (Yammy!) I was also checkin the map more carefully and it looked like there was a nice small road going out of town exactly to the correct direction… And that was a rough one!! Many kilometers riding on the soft and muddy road was a real challenge! This picture I took right after I managed to ride through…

    Soon after this I was in a small village of Straupe where they have a very nice castle! (Originally built in 1263)

    Soon after this I reached the TET Latvia the first time and I followed it to the “Līgatnes pārceltuve pār Gauju” (The manual ferry over the Gauja river). This is one of the places from my Bucketlist and now I’ve done it!

    This second photo is from “centrum of the Ligatnes village” which seemed like a very nice area for hiking, bicycling and spending some chillout time!
    My route for the day was like this:


    And of course I made a video of this extremely nice day:

  • Advestonia Day 1

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    This summer I desided to go for an adventure in Estonia! I made the routes for my rides beforehand but only on the first day I followed my plan. The ride was like this:


    Some spots that I had on this day:
    – Saku beerfactory

    – Piirsalu newclear missile base

    – Mihkli church

    I stayed the night in the smallest house of Pärnu (maybe?)

    And I enjoyed the meal in the “best restaurant” in town.
    This Pub dates back to 1930 (soon 100 years!)

    The video of the Day 1 ride is here:

  • TET kyselyn tulokset

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    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.

  • MotoAdventureDays 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:

  • Holiday Adventure Day 2

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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:

  • 2 days of Adventure in April

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    On saturday I hade a meeting in Lahti so I started planning the route to ride there. The spring was already so far that there was no ice and snow anymore except in few places. But I could ride through from all the places and I didn’t turn back anywhere.
    Here was my route to Lahti:

    It was all together almost 300 kilometers for saturday. And it was really nice route and very enjoyable ride! I visited one friend in Orimattila to sleep the night there.
    Here’s the video from Day 1:

    From Karjaa to Lahti

    On sunday I first did a ride to Mankala Power Plant and from there I turned “back home”.
    But the route was about checking the Section 6 of TransEuroTrail Finland that I will share later.
    That turned out to be very nice route also!! Even less ice and snow than on saturday.
    I’m sorry but I’m not sharing the picture of the route because it will be published later in TET.
    Here’s the video from Day 2:

    From Orimattila to Mankala and from There back to Karjaa

    The best picture of the weekend is from sunday. This really made me smile!

    Alive Children

    I hope I will have a chance to do more these kind of longer trips this year!! I really enjoyed this so much.

  • Samsung Act Tab 2 & Osmand App Vs Garmin Montana 700

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    Every now and then there is a question which navigation system is the best for Adventure riding?
    I don’t have the correct answer but here are some features to check. Especially if you want to ride TransEuroTrail (Finland).
    I’ve been using Garmin GPSmap 62, Garmin Montana 600, Last summer Samsung Active Tab 2 & Osmand App and now I have Garmin Montana 700.
    I did a testride with both of these navigation systems attached to my motorcycle.
    I also had my camera (DJI Osmo Action) attached to my helmet -this I didn’t have in a very long time.
    And Rode Wireless Go II microphone was connected to my camera and the microphone itself was inside my helmet.
    Here is the video:

    I’m not saying which one is better. They both have some cons and pros.
    Samsung Tab can be a little bit tricky to keep the batter fully loaded. It is very delicate part of the tablet this USB gate where you should connect the charging wire. I was using the magnetic type of wire where there is an extra connection just after the plug that you should push to the USB gate. The power that comes from my motorcycles alternator is not quite enough to keep the battery 100% loaded all day. But in novemeber when we were riding 9 hours it took only about 30% of battery power… So I could easily ride 2-3 days without recharging the tablet.
    It has also a small problem about the maps. You can get along with them but they are not as accurate than the maps in Garmin Montana. Every now and then I was little bit confused with Osmand maps. Why this track or that road is not on the map?
    Garmin Montana 700 biggest drawback (so far) is that you can’t change the thickness of the saved track’s line on the map! This makes it little bit tricky to see the line on the map that you should try to follow. The strangest thing is that it was possible in Garmin Montana 600!! (And also in Osmand App!)
    There are a lot of other devices and other apps to use. Especially this whole Apple -thing! I know nothing about them.
    But for android this Osmand is very good choice because it’s free or it’s not expensive to buy (full licence) where you can have unlimited amount of downloads (maps).
    I hope this helps you to choose a good system that serves you the best!

  • MotoAdventureDays 2023

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    Thew web page for this years MAD is now open. Only in few days more than half of the bookings is already made!
    Today 6th of January there is 90 free places -so I’m guessing it will be sold out very soon!
    Make you reservation here!

    Check some pictures from last years event Here!
    and my story in this blog you check Here!

  • TET Finland 2022

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    I’ve been the Linesman of Finland now little bit over a year. When I started I didn’t have anything else in my mind except to add more nice routes to TET Finland but during this summer 2022 I finally realized the “Goal” to reach: Finland can be or should be one of the main adventure countries in Europe!
    Until now we have only been the “ride-through” area on the way to Nordkapp. There’s been too much shortcuts and not riding the whole marked route because we are not interesting enough! This has to end… Finland definitely has more to offer to all adventure motorcycle riders in Europe (and the rest of the world!)

    New Section 4

    There will be new update coming soon: Section 4 will follow the Russian border very close and it goes all the way to the Raate road and connects with section 1 there. That most southern part between Helsinki – Vaalimaa we already have in TET.
    After this next update TET Finland will have 4 mainroutes from south to north:

    Section 1
    This is the main route that starts from Helsinki West Harbour. It goes west from Helsinki until it starts to go north from Siuntio. Like this:

    Section 1

    Section 2
    Was released already before I came as a Linesman. And this is very nice addition to TET Finland because I think I wouldn’t have been thinking this kind of route through Finland myself!
    This section I will probably update so that it will start already from the south side of Hämeenlinna and the route would go from the west side of Tampere. But this is the section 2 now:

    Section 2

    Section 3
    This was published few weeks ago. The section starts from the north side of Naantali and it pretty much follows the west coast of Finland. At the moment this section ends in Tornio but in the future it will go all the way up to Muonio and connect with Section 1 there. This is section 3 now:

    Section 3

    The main goal is to make Finland Great again… I mean it could be the main area to reach for the adventure riders to make THE adventure.
    We have so much to offer! So I really hope more and more adventure riders will find our beautiful country!