Back from Norway

[bluesman]

So colleagues, on August 16 I came back from another Norwegian ride. 6200 km in 14 days (well, 2 days lost in Germany on way to Denmark and 2 times 1/2 day for ferry and Denmark crossing).

My DR now have 100 000 km on the engine, no big service been done on it. It took 2.5 liters of oil for 6200 km, ate rear supermoto-size tire and pair of sintered brake pads and chain is now gone too

We had great ride, I took it this time on supermoto wheels set, left offroads at home as my friends came with road bikes from Ukraine.
We went from Kristiansand via numerous small roads to Trondheim (actually we did not stop there, stopped on way down in Molde) and back.
For last 4 days I rode on my own as my friend had to go to Stockholm to catch ferry to Latvia.

We had great time, more than 3000 photos and 100+ gb of video (one of guys had Contour HD helmet cam).


BTW - if you need good and cheap oil look at Hein Gericke shops. Cheap as chips, even full synthetic 10W50 and it is actually Motul.

My friends still sorting photos, here is some for you

[bluesman]

some more

[bluesman]

Like this road?

[bluesman]

clouds

[bluesman]

RV51. Cold and windy, but beatiful

[de antrapper]

I've got allready the taste of freedom if I see those pictures, and what do I see more? A car and caravan on a road like that, ofcoarse It is a Dutchman

Hans D

[800S]

pittoresk scenery iwan... look like u had gr8 time there

greetz sander

[bluesman]

I've got allready the taste of freedom if I see those pictures, and what do I see more? A car and caravan on a road like that, ofcoarse It is a Dutchman

Hans D

Well, I am afraid you are right. But it is not just Dutchman with caravan. It is Dutchman in quite small car pulling too heavy for him caravan, who's clutch gave up halfway to the top on "road of trolls" and who blocked traffic (single lane road) so badly that people were shouting at him and almost pushed his caravan to canyon then they pushed it uphill into road "pocket".

On other hand I met some cool Dutch guys on old Beemers (1100 GS and I think R1100) . So - not all Dutchman were here with caravans
It was interesting this time: we met motorcyclists from Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Germany (a lot), Hungary, Spain, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden - and not a single Belgian. Strange really.

[CrazyWezel]

@sander, die naam hoort echt bij iemand anders, dit is igor

[BIG88]

lijkt op de troll stigen , kan een mogelijkheid zijn voor de big 2010 trip ?
mooi land hé
ff op het plaatje klikken

[bluesman]

Cool trip! Hans told me on one of DR meetings about it, I checked that page and a bit envious I can see you had great time there!

We did not do any offroad, except 14 km to and back on one camping - my mistake, my friends with PaneEurope and Deauville had hard time getting there and about 45 km of unpaved road in rain I had to ride because I am idiot and for first time switched GPS on it was "toll road" shortcut...I paid 10 (or more - don't remember) krones for 45 km of unpaved road!!!
Anyway I could not take knobby tyres and offroad setup as we have no van or anything to carry bikes on and no support car or anything. So, I had to do ultraboring 1400 km to ferry in Denmark (ferris from Hanstholm not going anymore, only from Hirsthals) carrying all my 14 days kit with me + some of things that did not fit into my friends bike.
What are rules for offroading in Norway? Are bikes allowed to go offroad everywhere or have to follow unpaved road/tracks?