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GoZa Mite

Tag: Adventurebike

  • Tomorrow I’ll go

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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)

  • Season 2025 start

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    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!

  • July 2024

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    After some resting I was ofcourse riding again. So in July I took some interesting adventures and explorations around the area where I live!
    First ride was 15th of July. I was checking the most southern parts of the mainland in Raseborg.

    This ride has interesting very narrow canal in the beginning. This canal almost everyone remembers because one boating accident that happened there 14 years ago.
    The second ride was 20th of July. I was checking some of the best trails near my home. It was also quite hot day.

    Third ride was 21st of July. That was the group ride for “Pohjolan kurapyöräilijät” (Nordic dirt riders). We had super fun day!

    Next ride was 23rd of July. I was finally checking the Kemiö island, the second biggest islanf in Finland.

    Next ride was 27th of July. It is the seven sleepers day in Finland.

    The last ride of July was on the last day of July. That I did with my friend Lauri in Hanko area.

    I also shared a “remix” video of one of the best parts of that ride in Hanko area.

    In August it will be the MotoAdventureDays again. I’m one of the team leaders (“Peura”) and I’m also doing some presentation about TET Finland. See you there!

  • North Adventure Day 5

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    After a great night sleep in Inari Uruniemi camping (30€ only!) I was more than ready to start exploring new possible section for TransEuroTrail Finland.

    First I had to ride the section 7 until it’s starting point which was still more than 100km away behind Pokka village. And it was paved road all the way there.

    Actually before the “starting point” of section 7 I turned away from the paved road and all the fun started!
    I soon joined with section 1 and was riding 27km together with the “main section”! And that was maybe the best road/ track that I had on this day!
    Then I had route ahead of me that I knew nothing about. I planned the route to make it a section of it’s own but at some point I realised that it could be a continuation of an already existing section 7!
    So all this new route would be just a new beginning part of that section. And after the update the section 7 is now 770km long!
    So I was riding all the way down to Rovaniemi and it was almost 500km of riding!
    Here’s the video of that day:

    The route for the day 5 looks like this:

  • Holiday Adventure Day 4

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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 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:

  • Spring is here finally

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    YES!
    Spring is NOT around the corner, it’s here finally! So many plans made and so many routes to check.
    TET Finland will be even better soon! But lets start with the local roads and tracks.
    First ride was on Good Friday (Pitkäperjantai):

    Good Ride on Good Friday

    Second ride was on saturday:

    Saturday with some more OffRoad parts

    And on that ride we had a good laugh (I fell with the bike)!

    Notice:
    Insta360 selfie stick is not made for enduro riding!
    Ihave now had it 3 times in my bike and it’s now bended. I can hardly open it or close it.
    I wonder is there any better ones?

  • Season 2022 Start

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    Finally after a winter with HUGE amount of snow it was possible to start riding!
    And I did it with 4 times riding in one week. The weather was already quite warm -not like I needed to put all possible clothes on me.
    First day ride was less than 100km like this:

    First ride of the season

    Second day I was checking one place where was flooding.

    Ride to Kärkelä Ironworks area

    Here is the short video of the place where the river was flooding!
    I made a riding video of this next days ride.

    3rd day short ride
    Riding to the border of Varsinais-Suomi
    Snow was mostly gone but lakes had still ice!
    The temperature was something like 10-13 degrees -so not too cold anymore!

    And then on saturday I got three friends with me and we did already almost 200km!

    Tour around Lake Lohja

    And here is the video of the ride:

    Spring ride 2022

    And there is more to come!!