SuperBike Magazine September 2020
Loads of content to keep any motorcycle enthusiast entertained!
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62 <strong>SuperBike</strong><br />
sun is something extraordinary! Driving<br />
in the middle of the night with the<br />
sun in the sky is something you do not<br />
forget! And even for people from southern<br />
parts of Scandinavia, the midnight<br />
sun is every year on WoW! Officially I<br />
do not drive with groups in the middle<br />
of the night, but it is always possible to<br />
take a midnight sun ride if you do not<br />
have any alcohol in your blood! But it’s<br />
also great to have a midnight sun sauna<br />
with a couple of beers and saunamakkara!<br />
Saunamakkara is something very<br />
popular in Scandinavia. It’s an open fire<br />
sausage which you eat after sauna while<br />
you enjoy a cold beer! There are also<br />
other interesting activities in the Scandinavia<br />
during the midnight sun period<br />
like midnight sun skiing competition<br />
in Sweden, midnight sun marathon in<br />
Norway, and midnight sun golf tournament<br />
in Finland! But we bikers are not<br />
interested in those things! :)<br />
Nordkapp 71.1710° N, 25.7837° E<br />
Nordkapp, the place where the road<br />
ends in the northern hemisphere. A<br />
must-do place for bikers. No one drives<br />
up to Nordkapp because of its great<br />
weather! Even in July, the daytime temperature<br />
can drop as low as +5 degrees.<br />
Not to mention that at the same time<br />
it can rain diagonally with a crazy wind<br />
which is trying to push your bike from<br />
the road! Personally I do not know which<br />
I like better in Nordkapp, extreme terrible<br />
weather or sun & shine which also<br />
happens. Sometimes the temperature<br />
can go up to +25 and the sun is shining<br />
from the windless blue sky. I have experienced<br />
both!<br />
‘Nordkapp Highway’ from Olderfjord<br />
to Nordkapp is one of the most beautiful<br />
rides in Norway. Every (except a few<br />
tunnel kilometers) of its 128 kilometers<br />
will make you smile inside your helmet!<br />
There are practically no other residents<br />
than reindeers on the whole stretch if a<br />
couple of small villages of a few houses<br />
are not counted! At the northern end<br />
of the road, you will also find the small<br />
town of Hånningvåg, which is a bit aside<br />
from the road itself. All the trees are<br />
also aside from the road because there<br />
are not any trees at all when you start to<br />
come close to the Nordkapp. The growing<br />
season is too short up here for trees<br />
to survive! It means also that you have<br />
open curves with wide-open views! For<br />
a biker summer is summer but if you<br />
like to have an extraordinary boat cruise<br />
in winter, Norway’s famous Hurtigruten<br />
Peter the Great’s<br />
Summer Palace<br />
in St Petersburg.<br />
It has the most<br />
awesome palace<br />
garden in the city!<br />
line is operating a 7 days Northern<br />
Light Cruise from Bergen to<br />
Kirkenes! That time of the the year<br />
when sun doesn’t rise for 1 month<br />
on both sides of winter solstice between<br />
Arctic Circle and Nordkapp!<br />
Annually Nordkapp has about<br />
250 000 visitors… 5-10 percent are<br />
bikers! At the same time, Cape<br />
Agulhas is getting maybe about 50<br />
000 visitors. This is a guess. Mama<br />
Google did not know any visitor<br />
numbers of Cape Agulhas! My wild<br />
guess is based on my own visits<br />
to Cape Agulhas. Instead, Mama<br />
Google knows a lot of Cape Town,<br />
and Cape Town visitor’s numbers<br />
are high. About 2 million visitors<br />
in 2019! Bike-travellers enemy,<br />
COVID-19 is cutting down all visitor<br />
numbers to all places in <strong>2020</strong>, but<br />
let’s keep thumbs and toes for a<br />
better 2021… and I keep also my<br />
dog’s paws because she is a biker.<br />
Biker Bubbles and she has been<br />
with me to Nordkapp with our bike!<br />
She has her own tank bag!<br />
RUSSIA<br />
Country of Tsars since 1530 and<br />
with a new Tsar again! :) First one<br />
was Ivan the Terrible, this last,<br />
Vladimir the Great can’t be too<br />
Moskovskiy<br />
Prospekt. On of<br />
the main streets<br />
coming into St<br />
Petersburg. If you<br />
make a u-turn you<br />
will arrive to Moscow<br />
701km later1<br />
Russian dinner!<br />
Russia has a very<br />
biker friendly kitchen!<br />
A lot of meet!<br />
Sachlik in different<br />
forms can be found<br />
everywhere!<br />
terrible. He likes biking and his<br />
good friend is the President of the<br />
best known MC-Club in the country,<br />
Night Wolves. Night Wolves Clubhouse<br />
is also open for the visitors,<br />
so if you visit Moscow someday for<br />
one reason or the other, this is an<br />
interesting place to see! Regardless<br />
of Tsars and Wolves, Russia is not<br />
a huge magnet for bikers. That has<br />
also one very natural reason. Even<br />
there are many beautiful places and<br />
some great biking roads, a major<br />
part of Russia is flat like Texas or<br />
South Africa between Upington<br />
and Vryburg! One other big reason<br />
for unpopularity is politics. Most<br />
of the bikers, even in Europe are<br />
thinking that Russia is somehow<br />
dangerous! But it’s not. In fact, it’s<br />
safer than many southern parts of<br />
Europe. Media’s Russia and real<br />
Russia are two different countries<br />
and I like the second one. I have<br />
been driving in Russia many times<br />
with and without groups and I have<br />
never had any kind of problem with<br />
Russians! Once my bike started<br />
to push out flames from exhaust<br />
pipes on Murmank Highway, but<br />
that is a totally different story that!<br />
And unlike in many other countries,<br />
most Russians like bikers! And
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