Grazy Estonian people in Europe part II - Scandinavian tour

Starring: (in random order)

Cowwabusa zzzrrr110000 Makes very loud sound when over 8000rpm Eats a lot of fuel, oil and .... chain	Pauk - driver Refuels & repairs Cowwabusa Drinks a lot of beer	Jane - co-driver Reads map when driving Screams at the driver when exceeding the speed limit
Map & stats

Time: 13-21 February 2008 Total distance: ~2100km Fuel consumption: 186 liters Oil consumption: 2 liters Clothes and equipment: Drivers clothes with boots and helmet weighted almost 13 kilos (dry), there was electric heating in knee areas and some crappy heating in boots. Grip heaters were installed on bike. Helmet had also some visor heating but it blew out the fuse few times so it was not used. Co-driver was wearing sexy undies and coretex suite. She also had an towel of 1980-s olympic games with electric heating installed inside and webasto warmer inside the sidecar.

Day 1 February 13th From home to D terminal in Tallinn, distance ~ 3 km
All tanks filled with fuel (61 liters including tank under sidecar)

Ready to start in port of Tallinn

Port of tallinn, view from cabin window, getting a bite of beer

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Day 2 February 14th From Stockholm to Skarnes (Norway) distance ~ 506 km
Refueled 43 liters, average temperature -2 ^oC

no view from cabin window, Stockholm harbour, first repairs (speedo cable broke)

repairs over, Scarnes camping ~450km later (cabin as big as a house 850NOK)

cabin from inside & outside

having some beer

having some beer & making plans

Day 3 February 15th From Skarnes to Krystallrally in Fefor Høifjellshotell (near Vinstra) distance ~ 236 km
Refueled 16 liters, temperature in the morning -8,9^oC evening -12.9^oC average -6^oC

Sunrise in Skarnes with and without motorcycle

showing off

leaving the camping, stop in the roadside

few more pictures from the same place

few more pictures from the same place and picture from gas-station near Hamar

View to Lillehammer

Really, Lillehammer, the same place they had (Winter) Olympic games 1994 + picture from "almost nowhere, between the mountains"

Last ~30km of the road looked like this, arrived at the Krystallrally

motorcycles: red one with the backside is diesel Zeus, white is corda 3 wheel drive

motorcycles: in the left & right its Suzuki Hayabusa with sidecar!

motorcycles

motorcycles + Jane

again motorcycles: left one is CZ

motorcycles: Ural with sidecar drive and Corda

motorcycles: Corda and Buell on the right

motorcycles

motorcycles: middle one has old IZ Jupiter sidecar

motorcycles: middle one in Kihnu style, Zeus on the right

motorcycles: Kihnu & Zeus (made in France by the way)

motorcycles: Honda Pan-Europeans left&middle

motorcycles: Cowwabusa left&middle

motorcycles: Zeus on the left&middle

motorcycles: home made blue one - Citroën wheels in the front and sidecar, Saab wheel in the back

motorcycles

motorcycles: cheep winter tyre formula - take a piece of rope and turn it around the tire few times

motorcycles: white one is 3 wheel drive Corda with automatic gearbox

motorcycles, Jane got the camera

motorcycles, view from window

view from window

room and view

motorcycles, red BMW was from Italy

getting bored & tired

night shot from steady ground, from the hand and Jane with lot of snow

Outside, find tables from the picture, going to the "party"

motorcycles in the night

Day 4 February 16th From Krystallrally to Ålesund distance ~ 309 km
Refueled 15 liters, temperature in the morning -12.5^oC evening +4^oC
Half the distance was cold ~ -10^oC, other half near the coast was total rain with temperature +4^oC

sunrise from the window, dog from Ålesund, motorcycles

Fefor Høifjellshotell & motorcycles

JAWA & Fefor Høifjellshotell

Fefor Høifjellshotell

Fefor Høifjellshotell & motorcycle

motorcycle & Fefor Høifjellshotell

Fefor Høifjellshotell and cabins nearby

offroad by foot is bad idea, got hit by the skiers

around the hotel, driving to Vinstra

driving to Vinstra

driving to Vinstra, in the middle of nowhere with light blue frozen waterfalls

more mountains, drying out in Ålesund

checking out local beer

out of local beer, back on Estonian fuel

Day 5 February 17th Ålesund, distance - few kilometers on foot
Driver was refueled with several liters of beer, temperature and weather sucked totally. During the day we managed to visit Ålesund Akvarium, Fjellstua lookout and so called "old town" which as turned out was around 100 years old as almost all the town burned down in year 1904.

arrival to Akvarium

fish

more fish

fish and crab

fish

fish behind 10cm thick glass

fish & crab

crab and fishtank with modern accessories (stereo radio + car tire)

fishtank with modern accessories (car tire, boat engine, bicykle) and turtles place

leaving the Akvarium and forgetting dark setings on camera

city view from Fjellstua

city view from Fjellstua, road to Signes's old place going up in 45 degrees, "old town"

"old town"

nice boobs caught on picture by Jane, "old town"

"old town" and harbour

fish-smelling ships, water was so clear that bottom of the harbour was easily visible (including all kind of crap in the bottom)

"old town" and harbour

"old town"

"old town" and the model of first covered lifeboat

boat model, Signe & Thor

family pictures

Day 6 February 18th From Ålesund to Dombås distance 255km
There were no need for refueling the motorcycle but driver needed a lot of fixing. Weather was so bad that there is no descent way to describe it properly. Temperature was +2^oC, rain was so heavy that after 50km it started to flow down inside the sleeves of coretex jacket into the gloves. Driver turned the grip heater into maximum power. Few slices of carrot would have made it a perfect soup.

wondering in Ålesund on our own

wondering in Ålesund on our own, find the parking house from the picture

wondering in Ålesund on our own

wondering in Ålesund on our own, leaving

Few pictures of Fjellstua again

Away from Fjellstua, drying in Trolltun hotel

Trolltun hotel (990NOK with breakfast)

Day 7 February 19th From Dombås to Mora (Sweden) distance 462km
Refueled 44 liters, average temperature -2^oC
This day can be described as "Rally of Sweden" - nice snowy roads, absolutely no rain, sun was shining and the throttle wanted to go fully down all the time. Driver felt himself as real Marcus Grönholm during this day, first half of the day there were nice and snowy mountain roads of Norway, other half of the day we drove in Sweden where we saw already some clean roads.

Trolltun camping, Dombås

Trolltun, in the middle of nowhere

Storsjøen lakeside

Storsjøen lakeside, getting "The Stone of Norway for Helkur"

Storsjøen lakeside

Storsjøen lakeside, back to roads of snow

"The Rally of Sweden video"

In Moraparken hotel (1190SEK with breakfast)

Day 8 February 20th From Mora to Stockholm distance 344km
Refueled 8 liters, temperature in the morning -3.3^oC evening +2^oC
Nothing more than big roads and driving. When we arrived to Stockholm it turned out that its hard to get into the harbour without the city map what we did not have. So we chose random roads and spent lot of time but still arrived to harbour with plenty of time to spare.