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After many years without having a proper biking trip, this summer I tried to get back the feeling of long journeys. And I have to say I managed to do it pretty well.

With a total amount of 2224 km spanned in ten days, the trip day by day was as follows:

• 18.7. Oulu - Virrat - Tampere
• 19.7. Stay in Tampere for the Iron Maiden’s gig
• 20.7. Tampere - Hämeenlinna - Helsinki
• 21.7. Trip to Suomenlinna (not by bike)
• 22.7. Helsinki-Porvoo-Helsinki
• 23.7. Helsinki-(ferry)-Tallin-Haapsalu (Estonia)
• 24.7. Haapsalu-(ferry)-Kärdla-Kiudja-Kõpu-Ristna
• 25.7. Kiudja-Sõru-(ferry)-Triigi-Kurressaare-Mändjala
• 26.7. Mändjala-Kuivastu-(ferry)-Virtsu-Tallin-(ferry)-Helsinki
• 27.7. Helsinki-Valkeakoski-Oulu (almost 700 km in one day!)

So basically the journey was half in Finland and half in Estonia, including five ferries to get also to the island of Hiiumaa and Saaremaa. If you count on top of this that 800 km have been done in two people with tent and mattresses on the back, it was really a good seikkailu!

I have to say really enjoyed Estonia, still quite cheap (but I wonder for how long), wonderful sand beaches and nice people.

And, by the way, on the way back to Oulu, the Pegaso overtook 97000 km, just 3000 to the sixth figure!

Here below the detailed map of the journey, it might take a while to load: be patient, I said it was a long trip!

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After that typical time lag it takes to me to do anything, I’m now proud to present you the pictures of the SMartaBoys reunion of 29.3.2008. Quality is not at its best, quantity as much as usual.

For brave people there are also some interesting videos of the SMB gang. We tried to dub them in Italian, but it was extremely difficult, due to the bad command of any language of those ugly mugs, so it was decided to add some English subtitles, but it ended up to add just nothing to an impossible understanding…

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While approaching the one hundred thousand kilometres (!!!) with my good ol’ Pegaso, I’ve decided to keep trace of the checks and repairs that are done on the bike. Really, until now I haven’t kept records of the maintenance, and still the bike works great after all these years (11 and a half right now).

So here we go with the 94 000 km maintenance:

• Spark plug replaced
• Rear shock-absorber replaced
• Oil changed
• Oil filter replaced
• Cooling liquid changed
• Brake fluid changed
• Battery replaced

To be done in a short time:

• Change brake pads (changed on 16.7.2008)
• Change air filter

To be done at a certain stage:

• Change air box

Important replacements done some time ago:

• ~85 000 km: Fork seals replaced
• ~90 000 km: Exhaust-pipes replaced
• ~90 000 km: Tyres replaced