SuperBike Magazine September 2020

64 SuperBike
Nordkapp
Russia Tour
Map
Shortest
route from
Helsinki to
Nordkapp
that Nikel and Sputnik are not! St
Petersburg is full of the glory of the
Tsars era. It’s international, viral, and
vital with visitors from all around the
world. Here you can easily hear also
English what is spoken in Thrumpland.
However St. Petersburg is
huge with huge magnificent boulevards
where you see especially in the
weekends and evenings local bikers
cruising with their bikes. In St. Petersburg
you see also many Harleys.
Before St Petersburg had a big event
called Harley Days every 1st weekend
of August. But politics spoiled it as it
seems to do to too many good things!
Anyway, it’s very pity because Harley
Days collected tens of thousands
of bikers to the city every August.
Naturally, there is underground,
trams, buses and water buses in St
Petersburg but it’s also fun to drive
on big boulevards on the weekends
and evenings. And just outskirts the
city are Kronstadt, Peterhof (Summer
Palace) and Pushkin which make a
great 150km day tour!
Back to Finland
Depending on the group, time, and
weather I often take the fun coastal
road from St Petersburg to Vyborg
instead of the dull main road. Vyborg
is the last city before Finland. I do not
now what Lonely Planet says about
Vyborg today, but I always remember
what I read many years ago from
this independent traveler’s bible. It
said ‘typical unpleasant border town,
no reason to stop here’. I could also
have another opinion, but yes. It’s not
a navel of the world. One very nice
thing to do after the border crossing
is to take the old King’s Road and ride
like a king from curve to curve. On
the way is a unique red wooden Porvoo,
which is also a world heritage
city and a superb place to stop for a
coffee! And the Nordkapp circuit is
closed 50km later when you arrive at
the capital of Finland, Helsinki!
Jippii
- See you next time Russia!