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  • MotoAdventureDays 2022

    gozamite

    Early this year I paid my deposit to join this big adventure motorcycle event. But soon I got a phone call from the person who is one of the organizers… And I was asked to join as one of the “group leaders” to make this event possible to happen. And of course I said “Yes!”
    Moto Adventure Days is pretty much similar than any other adventure motorcycle event all around the world.
    This year it was the second time they arranged it and it was already many times bigger than last year,
    There was more than 180 participants and the event was sold out quite early in the spring.

    About 9.30 PM tuesday evening

    I started my ride on tuesday evening to Jämsä. It would be about 240 kilometers and I was choosing many times smaller roads. So I was in Himos only after it became dark.
    After Kuhmoinen I was already riding only the main paved road because it was dark. This was my route:

    Route to Himos on tuesday evening

    On wednesday all the teamleaders had some practise at Haaralankangas motocross track.
    We were testing quite many different things about riding enduro but it was too hot! After 2 hours I was loosing my concentration and after 3 hours I simply had to stop riding!

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    Steep Uphill start

    We had routes in 5 different categories: Black, Red-Black, Red Technical, Red Tempo and Blue. Balck route was mainly offroad even with swamp and other wet parts and then the categories after were easier and easier. Blue being mainly simple wide gravel road. I was one team leader for Red Technical routes and my team number was 16!

    The event itself started on thursday when all the riders started to arrive to Himos. And on thursday afternoon about 15.30 we started the first group ride!

    First ride in MAD 2022

    I had one 1250GS Adventure that was stuck in the loose sand part in the beginning. But after that we didn’t have any problems. Route was the best of all three different routes I was riding. It had so many different kind of surface to ride! Second time riding was on friday morning 8.30 AM.

    Second ride in MAD 2022

    On this ride there was pretty much no problems at all!
    Third ride was on friday afternoon after 3PM

    Third ride in MAD 2022

    From this afternoon ride I remember that it was very hot! And that in the end of the route I made the water crossing… which was very nice experience! I have low adventure boots so I got a little bit of water inside but much. It looked deeper when I was watching the others riding there…
    Saturday morning was the next ride. 8.30AM!

    Fourth ride in MAD 2022

    On this ride there was mainly quite big bikes. All of them were much bigger than mine!
    The last ride of the event was on saturday afternoon. I was changing the route quite a lot… Mainly because I wanted to make it shorter.

    Last ride in MAD 2022

    The routemasters had been doing excellent work! These routes were super nice and fun to ride. Thank you again from me as a team leader and I think all of the riders are happy and grateful too!
    I can only hope I will be a team leader again next year. This was so perfect experience!
    I was riding back home (or to Espoo) on sunday with 2 friends. Route was pretty much the same that I was riding few days earlier. Only in EVO area we made a little bit exploring… Like this:

    Exploring in EVO
    In EVO

    This was Great and Amazing event. I hope to see you all again in 2023!

  • Adventures goes on

    gozamite

    Springtime was so short! It started in the end of April and soon in May you will start to feel like it’s summer already. And I had so many ideas about new possible routes for transeurotrail.
    First idea was to make additional route Helsinki – Turku. There was already one but it was going from Turku to the TET route and to connect to it in Räyskälä (almost 100km away from Helsinki). So I started to check my plans in the beginning of May.

    Here I’m riding the few possible selections Between Karjaa & Perniö and also all the way to Teijo ironworks area. I made second checking ride a week later and I was checking the possible routes between Salo and Lieto. I found only private yards and tracks that were impossible to ride.

    The new update for the TET route was made on 13th of May!
    On that same day I was riding again! For that ride I found interesting start From Karjalohja: A very small ridgeroad going between two lakes (Kannaksentie) -but there are quite many summercottages on the way, I’m not going there again.

    The part in the end of this video comes to Ruonankorventie that I have recommended to quite many riders that they should check this. I was riding from Lohiojanie to Lemmulantie and then to Ruonankorventie.
    On May 15th I was inviting riders to make a group-ride to Iso-valkee and 15 bikes came to make a very nice ride together!! You can see some pictures here! I made also a video:

    Then in the end of May (Helatorstai/ Ascension Day) I made a ride to check some small roads and tracks on Hanko Peninsula. Found some very good ones! Here’s the video:

    Waiting to ride again!!

  • PV TouRinki Day 2

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    Made few mistakes! Planned a long route with 2 times crossing the Russian border… Ooops! But I’ll tell you later about it.
    First there was a ride from Plinkses to Klaipeda harbour, and from there we took a ferry to Curonian Spit. Ferry costs 3,35€. And after we arrived the spit there was a roadtoll (5€/ bike). And we also had to pay the toll again in Russian side (that was a little bit more than 4€). The road in Curonian Spit is beautiful, it even has some corners and uphills-downhills.

    We stopped in one beach to take some pictures of the Baltic ocean. We also stopped in Nida to buy something from the shop.
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    After Nida it was time for the first border check-Ins! These first check-Ins took about 1h 30mins! Then we’re in Russia!!
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    This is Amber museum in the center of Kaliningrad.
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    And this is the worlds biggest castle in Malbork Poland.
    But before we could ride in Poland we had to cross the border again! The Russian side of the border was ok, (quite fast) but then the Poland side of the border-check was with a very long line!!! We had to wait more than 2 hours!!! What a catastrophe! We were so late in our accommodation! It was 9,30 pm and we started 8.30 am and there in the middle we moved from timezone to another…. so it was more than 14 hours of ride!!!

    Note to  myself:
    – If you’re about to ride Curonian Spit, you better have 1 whole day to do it!
    – If you’re about to cross the Russian border twice a day, don’t ever think it’d take 2-3 hours! It will take more!

    Here is the route for day 2!

  • 3 days to GO!

    gozamite

    You can follow this trip in facebook (https://www.facebook.com/PVTourinki/), mostly in Finnish.
    In instagram (https://www.instagram.com/gozamite/) and in moottoripyora.org forum (http://www.moottoripyora.org/keskustelu/showthread.php/289047-Parlez-Vous-TouRinki), only in Finnish!
    And as you can guess the trip is called “Parlez-Vous TouRinki”!

  • Biker Girl -another traveller

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    Sehe’s quite young girl from Melbourne Australia! And for some reason she desided to come to Europe and make a 3 months roadtrip here. And what a wonderful trip it was!!
    http://www.bikergirl.me/
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    Here’s the route she made (or I think this is the plan):
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  • Merry Christmas

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    But this winter the southern parts of Finland have been very warm (so far) and today when it was time to make the old tradition in Turku at 12.00 -so called “The Declaration of Christmas Peace” there was maybe the biggest amount of motorcycles ever in the center of Turku!
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    About 30 bikes in this picture…

  • Best motorcycle road in Finland?

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    I have been riding this road usually 5-10 times every summer so I know it quite well. But still I love it! And now finally I found a good place for my GoPro camera in my S1000XR I have some video for you all!

    This is Fagervikintie in south-west Finland, very near to the sea. In the map you’ll find it here!
    From east to west the road has 60km/h speedlimit first. Then there’s a 500 meters part that is a museumroad and it has 40km/h speed limit. But after that you can open the throttle with 80km/h speed limit -and I must tell you there are few corners where you can’t even ride 80! Maybe 50 or 60 at most!

  • Nice photos from the ride to Kasnäs

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    13 bikes took the ride to the archipelago area of the west coast. Kasnäs is the village in Kemio island. But first we had to take 200km’s ride there and then back…
    Here are the pictures!

    Few of theme here:
    And yes! Your eyes are not lying… I got myself another XR already! I must be the top buyer in the whole wide world of the S1000XR! This one is called Dragoné!

  • 2nd day of the jumping starters

    gozamite

    This wasn’t that interesting day. Road was straight, not much to see (except the castle!) and one missed crossing and 30 km’s gravel road after that.
    This was the route.
    We stopped in the city called Cesis (in Latvia) and there is an amazing old castle.
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    And we also checked the castle in Sigulda:
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    I still think that Sigulda is a very special town. There’s so much to see and so many places to visit. Maybe the best city to spend few days in whole Baltic countries!

  • Already 1200 km’s with BMW S1000XR

    gozamite

    Today I got my bike from 1000km service, so now I can ride it on the edge and make wheelies like crazy… (In my dreams!) but anyway the maximum-rpm is now possible and my bike is ready to the trip!
    It starts on friday (day after tomorrow) 7.30 am with the boat from Helsinki to Tallinn.
    And all the 10 bikes will (or should) be in Sigulda (Latvia) on sunday morning.
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