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This old friend recently had it's 15th birthday, forgot to celebrate.
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I was just helping someone get a smaller chainring for their bike and ended up changing the whole crankset, as it seemed to be so difficult to get the one that fit the FSA cranks. All of the direct mounts seem to do pretty much the same thing, but with a slightly different shape hole. I suppose they all want to be the one who invented the standard, they all might have their own patents, they might want to prevent mixing incompatible components but all of these might as well be compatible and you could just ride to the local bike shop and buy a chainring.
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Yes looks like he found enough side roads just next to the E87. Gravel, a bit of climbing.
The only part of the E87 that is allowed is that short section posted above.
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They are not taking quite the same route as we did along the peninsula, E87 on the coast is banned now. You can see it on the same google map as before, they just update it every year.
There's a new bridge near Gallipoli, but it seems that's just a motorway, with some kind of maintenance walkways on the side, which are probably not open to use.
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It is certainly nice to have the fork and rear suspension wouldn't be out of place either, but if a rigid bike was all I had I'd ride that. The trails are often rocky.
@Hulsroy Thanks. I'll keep that in mind, the topic is for the pictures so no point in compressing them.
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Yeah, they are reindeer herders' cabins. There were no-one there now, I've heard they only use these in the spring when they are gathering the herds to mark the new calves. Kind of remote indeed, there's no road, only a trail they use on ATVs. It's something like 15 km to the nearest road and about 50 km to the closest village, which isn't too bad for how it is in the area. I came from the other side, which is a bit or a lot further depending on which direction you come from and some of it didn't have a trail at all.
The van is on a different part of the route I took, along an old maintenance road called Kalkkoaivintie that was built for WW2 and hasn't really been maintained, but is still drivable on a 4x4. -
Nice, that's great to hear. Hope you had a good trip, the archipelago is rather special too.
It really varies with the mosquitos, but generally there's plenty of them this summer. Had lots of them anywhere near water and swamps and below treeline, it was good to have a head net for spots like that. But at least on a good year (or a bad one for the birds that eat mosquitos) you can do a long trip in the open highlands with only a few mosquitos. And there's a brief moment when they are generally gone at the end of the summer, before it gets cold again.
You make me feel young. Yeah maybe it just feels like that for someone as young as I am, after riding the bike in quite a few setups and situations, somewhat different phases of life, in 22 countries and all that.