Today’s plan was to drive from Ioannina / Greece to Petrovac / Montenegro. Day started ~09:00 and since it was only 21 degrees out, I decided to drive with all Gore-Tex clothes and take them out if it becomes too hot. First trick on the day was to get TomTom …
We started at 11:00 from our Arkadia Hotel at Zakynthos, escorted by family to the airport and looked that they got through the check-in. After that headed to the ferry from Zakynthos to Killini, ferry was about to leave at 13:00. All ready to roll, my TomTom had direct co-ordinates …
Day 1 Our first driving day started with SS1000 ride which we started from Tallinn at 00:36. Then just heading down Via Baltica to Riga, Kaunas, Bialystok, Lublin, Svidnik, Debrecen and Oradea. Did not have much surprises on the way except the fact that driving through eastern Europe is a …
As before, we will escape from cold and rainy Finnish summer and head for the southern Europe. We have reserved ferry tickets from Helsinki to Tallinn on the evening 2nd of July and start driving as soon the ferry is in Tallinn. This time our trip will take us to …
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 …
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