This would be our final driving day, we had still 600 kilometers driving for this day, but TomTom was suggesting only 6 hours of driving we had no hurry. In the morning we already booked hotel in Jerez which was the city where our families would be flying into. Hotel …
We woke up early in the morning, quickly ate breakfast and planned route for this day. We ended up driving ~732 kilometers for city called Elche, near Alicante where we found and booked hotel in advance. Roads were getting much faster to drive on the Spanish side than France, most …
We woke up in Grenoble and once looked out to see the weather we started planning for an alternative route. Originally we had planned to see the Alps one more time, go via La Bonette towards Spain, but we decided to take a shortcut and drive directly to Spain. So, …
Day 4 started out in St. Moritz, we packed again our bikes and headed towards Grenoble France. Just as we got out from St. Moritz it started raining which continued all the way to Grenoble and got even stronger when we got closer to Grenoble. I have never experienced such …
Our third day started from Guttaring Austria from where we continued towards St. Moritz which we had set our target for this day. We drove from Austria through Slovenia and Italy into St. Moritz with a full sunny day. Excellent mountain passes on the way, had to really learn how …
Our second day was a day after Iron But SS1000 ride and we decided to take it pretty easy. Stay out of highways, sit back and relax on the ride. We had no target on where to get, just that we would get ~500 kilometers for a day. Excellent driving …
Our trip to Rota started this year on Wednesday 2nd of July at 21:30 with new Viking Line XPRS from Helsinki To Tallinn where we arrived a bit late at 00:15. Our first drawback was when we tried to leave ship: My BMW K1200LT bike did not respond to remote …
Just to do a bit of a riding exercise I decided to do a quick SS1000 Iron Butt ride before our trip to Spain in July. Together with me was Juha S. with his new Triumph Rocket III Classic. We started from Mikkelä Esso at 18:25 on 27th of July …
Just get some how to drive my bike again, I will conduct a SS1000 drive on Friday 27th of June. Start is from Esso Espoo/Mikkelä, then fastest route to Kuusamo, Oulu and back To Espoo. All this should be driven in ~19-20 hours. Here’s a map of the planned route: …
Our plan for the summer 2008 is getting clearer, way down to Spain, Rota is now pretty much planned. We have now reserved an evening ship on Wednesday 2nd of July at 21:30 to Tallinn, will be arriving there before midnight and start driving immediately from there. Our first stop …
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