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GoZa Mite

Tag: BMW G650 XChallenge

  • Spring service for “The Swan”

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    I named my bike quite long time ago as “The Swan” but I haven’t been using ti too much.
    This spring has been very lucky so far. No big technical problems with the bike! So I have a chance to do some smaller fixings and services. Here the bike is getting new a drivechain and sprockets. And also the brakefluid is now new!
    New chain is the same that was installed to the bike in autumn 2022: D.I.D. X-ring golden chain. Sprockets are the original size.

    The old chain I had in the bike about 20k km’s. I think it’s quite good amount!

    Front sprocket 15-teeth and new chain
    Finishing the chain
    JT Rear sprocket, 47-teeth
    Ready

  • 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: