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Finally saw our BB1500 Gold Ride as accepted: So this ride was 8th Iron Butt Ride!

Tulipa sitten 16.5.2009 käytyä läpi ensimmäinen moottoripyörän käsittelyä koskeva kurssi. Tämä oli Motiimin järjestämä päivän mittainen tapahtuma Joutsan Seudun Ratakeskuksessa. Päivä alkoi Espoosta 7:30 startilla kohti Joutsaa, 10:00 piti olla perillä. Pienen sompailun jälkeen saapuminen sinne oli 9:55, jossa homma lähti liikkeelle kahvin ja pullan voimin.   Tästä eteenpäin sitten …

During our Iron Butt rides I have usually left TomTom Bluetooth connector home since it has some big limiting factors: Too short usage time, works usually only few hours Cannot be recharged and used at the same time I decided to open up the Bluetooth dongle and see if something …

Our target was to ride 1500 miles (=2414 km) in less than 24 hours. We started from Stockholm on 1.5.2009 at 6:52 in a group of 4 people. There were other groups starting a the same time, driving different rides than us. We had planned the ride stop by stop …

As summer is getting closer, it is time to start planning for the first motorcycle trips. Now with brand new Öhlins suspensions installed on my BMW K1200LT can’t wait to get On the Road! First trip is going to be fun one: We start on May Day Eve 30th of …

After getting out from the ferry in the morning at the Turku harbor, police was waiting everybody who was driving out from the ferry and they measured alcohol level for all the drivers. No issues for us so just heading towards Espoo and home using the fastest route. Only 150 …

After getting out from the ferry in the morning at the Turku harbor, police was waiting everybody who was driving out from the ferry and they measured alcohol level for all the drivers. No issues for us so just heading towards Espoo and home using the fastest route. Only 150 …

Hamburg morning was pretty hot already when we started packing our stuff in the morning and while driving through the city we got really swetty in all our gears. Our next stop was Copenhagen, Denmark and a hotel which was already familiar to me as I had been many times …

From Amsterdam we set our goal to drive to Hamburg, not very long trip, just a short 500 kilometer drive. We stopped few times and once we got to Germany side I started asking after BMW Motorrad services. Got one address for a local dealer in Oldenburg where we headed …

We started again a bit after 09:00 our driving day, long way ahead of us. First 150 kilometers was really slow small roads running through villages, but eventually we got to a faster tracks and got the speed up. We had no other destination marked in TomTom but Amsterdam, Holland …