Took longer than usually to sort target for coming summer. But as flights for my family have now been booked, I just have to sort out which route to take… As I really hate flying and I try to void ferries as well, only real option is to take the …
Start of the journey is approaching fast, only five days to go. Bike has now gone through maintenance, washed and ready to ride. Washing riding gears is also mainly done, so only thing to do is packing. All items have been listed and gathered already into one place. Tires for …
As of today, plan for the trip has been pretty much done. Trial packing is behind, all gears have been selected and final bike maintenance is early next week. First part is short visit to Alps and especially unpaved roads over there with some friends, like this. After this I …
As it happened, last weekend made up my mind and ordered new smaller bike. I have been looking this kind of bike for a while to get into even smaller roads where my BMW R1200GSA is too big. And this seems to be a perfect fit! Weight (without fuel) 112.5 …
I had already set my mind few months ago that this winter I will drive one Iron Butt ride. First trial was set for New Years Day, 1st of January 2012. Date came but at last minute I decided to cancel the ride. Reason being mainly that weather had been …
Day started early again, quick packing and as I was totally full from yesterdays late dinner, no breakfast at the hotel. When checking out there started this man at the reception mumbling something and once I got paid, he started dragging me out to the bike and with the bike …
I had some map created by Power Commander Auto Tune during the dyno session and now after the BB3000 Gold it was time to look at them again. And this was what I found now after accepting Auto Tune tables: When comparing these to the one after dyno session, one …
I installed during the winter Power Commander V and AutoTune module for it and been now experimenting with it. After some cruising with zero map AutoTune suggested these changes into the base map: After that I took the bike to dyno run to see what the actual power and torque …
So the plan is, that three teams which go a bit different route will meet in Kyrgyzstan sometime in July 2010 and head through Pamir Highway back to Finland. Here’s how it roughly looks: FIN2PAMIR Team 1 consists of four people, Team 2 is three people and Team 3 is …
My BMW R1200GS Adventure is 2009 model which I got end of August 2009. It came preinstalled with these: Enduro packet 2 (ESA, computer, fog lights, led lights, chrome exhaust pipes) BMW Alarm Enduro gear Side and top cases with inner bags After this I have been adding following into: …
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