SuperBike Magazine September 2020

60 SuperBike
Made in India! Last summer I had an India group
on Nordkapp Tour. It’s was great fun from the start
to the end! This group picture is from the shores of
Päijänne-lake!
Some of the nights are in hotels
and some in nice holiday homes!
Indian girls
crossing
Artic Circle
firs time in
their lifes!
NORTH CAPE
- WHERE THE
ROAD ENDS
By Peter Ruotsalo
Together
is social
media…
romantic!?
North Cape, Cape Agulhas,
Ushuaia, Prudhoe Bay…
Route66, Ho Chi Minh Trail,
HighWay1, Manali - Leh
Highway… All places and roads to go
or to do for us bikers! In this story we
do not go to all of them, we ride to
the north, to North Cape… or as we
say up here, Nordkapp! Then we go to
the east to Murmansk! Where is my
up here? My up here is in Helsinki,
Helsinki Finland! The shortest way to
Nordkapp from Helsinki is 1518km.
From Cape Agulhas it’s 16299km.
Only 211h and 8,8 days without
sleeping and brakes! I drove down to
Cape Agulhas 10 years ago, 2010 in
1680h and 70 days with sleeping and
brakes. It was a 18987km version, 1st
I drove 1518km up to Nordkapp!
To/From North Cape
Oslo is a good place to start a ride
to Nordkapp. Views are great all the
One of
Santa’s
reindeers on
the summer
vacation!
In the north of Scandinavia you
will see many of these on the road
and on the sides of the roads!
way, but the problem is if you do not
have a lot of time, and most of us do
not have, Norway is very slow. The
speed limit is 80km/h all the way
and the police in Norway are, how
do you say it nicely? Pain in the ass!
There is a lot of radar control and
they are happy to give you a ticket
with a smile! Good thing is, that
you have a lot of time to look at the
views. My opinion (my opinion has
naturally nothing to do with that fact
that I’m Finnish :) is that the best
place to start a 2-week Nordkapp
circuit is Helsinki. Home of me, Alvar
Aalto, Mika Waltari, Martti Ahtisaari,
and Kimi Räikkönen. You know the
last one if you follow Formula1, the
Iceman! And many elderly people in
Namibia know Martti Ahtisaari, the
peacemaker! However, the capital of
Finland is a very nice small big town
or a big small town. A lot of green
parks and water. But I suppose Finland
is not really known from Helsinki!
What I have understood foreigners
known Finland from lakes, Santa
Claus and reindeers! Bikers who
follow MotoGP know Mika Kallio!
When the gods where creating Scandinavia
Finland got all the lakes, Norway
got all the mountains and Sweden
was the unlucky middle country!
But seriously, Sweden is also a very
beautiful place with a lot of space like
all Nordic countries, South Africa and
Russia! And if you drive a two-week
Nordic circuit with Russia, Helsinki is
clearly the best place to start and finish
regardless of my nationality. You
will get a very good picture of all 3
Scandinavian countries with numerous
different landscapes, views, and
roads with a great extra of the east,
Russia! Russia is a country, which
does not leave you cold!
Lakeland & Lapland