Author: juvander

We have SPOT device to follow where we are. Public link for this data is http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.juvander.fi/Ilpo/SPOT/default.aspx?q=Caucasus2011. Link will be active from the time we leave on Friday.

Just 3 days left for Caucasus tour!21.6.2011 9:14:09

Today all needed trip paperwork is done: green card, passport with all needed Visas and drivers licenses. Some final checks for the bike, new tires, valve check etc. and then my GSA is ready as well. We will go from Helsinki to Tallinn on 24th of June and start riding …

I have been struggling with this error now for good few weeks and finally managed to get this working. Issue has all the time been that HID cold start amps have been too high for can bus to handle and it has been just disconnecting power from HID with error …

Plan for the Summer of 2011 is starting to formulate again. This time theme is Caucasus. And of course this will be an adventure trip with the motorbike – this year not as big as last summer. So we will be travelling from Finland using some route to Turkey, stop …

From St. Petersburg we had a short one to Finland and home. Only 200km to the border between Finland and Russian and another 202 km to my home. This took us 7 hours. Border took us ~1 hour and most of that time was spent on Finnish side… So total …

Time to get everything washed… and fixed…

Now at sokos hotel palace bridge in st.petersburg,some sauna and spa for reward!3.8.2010 14:59:18

For this day we got an idea: Lets make this day a short one and reward us with a short driving day and a spa in St. Petersburg! And this was what we did! So only 425 km for this day, 6½ hours driving. Woke up early and engines were …

From Nizhny Novgorod we drove a bit pass Moscow, managed to go around Moscow and not stuck on the traffic. Weather was good, quite a lot of smoke everywhere. Managed to find small motel just by the road and our day was there! Total mileage for the day was 700 …