January 2010 - Posts - Ilpo Juvander

Summer of 2010 – The Plan Continues to Live

After having weekend meeting with couple of guys who are planning trip to same area, I’m now thinking of including Pamir Highway to the trip as well. This just means taking two extra countries to the list, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan…

So something like this:

This also means extra 2-3 thousand kilometres driving, but it should be worth it!

Posted: Jan 25 2010, 06:15 PM by ilpo | with no comments

Summer of 2010 – The Plan

This coming summer the adventure will be one of a kind. Nothing like the journeys before to Spain and Creek.

This journey is called ‘Around Black and Caspian Sea 2010’.

Plan is to drive from Finland through Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria to Turkey where there will be a stop for two weeks when my family is flying in there.

From Turkey journey continues through Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia back to Finland.

Here is a rough map of the journey:

My original plan was to drive only around Black Sea, but as Georgia and Russia have not opened the border for foreigners, I had to include Caspian Sea to the trip as well!

Trip planning is fully on its way and if timetables just allow I will meet some Finnish motorcycle drivers in Uzbekistan and drive back home with them.

My motorcycle is under preparations for the trip and almost ready for it. Some additional gears still on its way. Biggest challenges on it have been getting enough shields and also some extra fuel for it. Right now I have capacity to carry ~45 litres with me so that should get me anyhow over 800 km before I ran out of it!

I will be updating status regularly on this blog and also on created Facebook group.

Posted: Jan 20 2010, 11:47 AM by ilpo | with no comments

My BMW R1200GS Adventure

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:

Autocom Super Pro Automatic with 4 bluetooth connections (Mobile phone, GSP, IPod) and support for pmr radiophone with tangent (Chainspeed)
Vertex Standard VX-146 PMR radiophone
Bags Connection Quick-lock Electric-tankbag with 3 12V output plugs inside (R.M. Heino)
Power output for Gerbing heated jacket
Power input for battery charger
Driver seat X-Low (Touratech)