Far Away Y-Guys:   A good friend of mine is participating in the ISDE, in your country, next month.

              It's close to Kotha, & Hamina. I don't have a clue if that's near ya'll, but he was asking about

              the terrain and weather. For your info, this is the "Olympic's" of the dirt bike world. They ride

              150/200 miles a day, for six days, and have to do all their own maintance etc.

                          Give me some feedback and I'll relay it to him.....

                                                        Thanks,

                                                         Bill

Bill

Pelham,Al

Bah, I'll be in Crete during that with my family.


Hyvinkää, FI

Hey, I just got the official programme for ISDE with largest selling finnish motorsport magazine. It's hard to say about the weather in August. Might be clear and warm, might be rainy and cold. Usuallay August is from 64 F to 77 F. Terrain is normal finnish forest stages with fast sections between the trees, might be fields to cross, rocks to crawl etc normal. If it rains a lot, it'll be slippery and even more hard to get to finish and if you are one of the backmarkers, after 200 riders the stages must be in awfull condition. But, that will be the journey .

Here is couple of links to get the idea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQN4K_e-7KQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXZL3MUE0lo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-dxLA8Lmo&feature=related

And this might be the best to show how things are here in finland...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iW86QVWMMM

Jump on the plane with your friend and bring us couple of bigger turbos for our dragster .

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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And this is the next challenge for your friend About thousand kilometers in three days at winter time. This is the most famous bike race here in Finland. Cold, sometimes wet and always hard to finish. Welcome to Finland!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pmib_7sM74&feature=related

And quite a lot of blue and white Finnish Flags in this chart too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Enduro_Championship

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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Awesome footage Seppo, good stuff. Bill, best of luck to your friend, what kind of bike does he ride. I used to ride enduros (locally) on my KTM. I will be rootin' for him!!!

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

August is usually warm and clear in nowdays, thanks to global warming.

So burn lot of gas and we got better summers in here northern side of world.


Hyvinkää, FI

After day 2, Finns lead, Spain second over 9 minutes down and USA third over 20 minutes behind Finns . Looking good so far. Rain and slippery stages.

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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Jep, Finns are 2011 ISDE (Enduro Team World Champions) winners. Spain second and USA third over 45 minutes behind The Finns !!

 Seppo from Järvenpää, Finland
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