CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
On the way it passes Sunila Housing Area, PORLOM II Tornikallio and back through Sunila Housing Area. It crosses from Russia into Finland - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The name is Finnish for something like a hill with a crest, and the Finnish coast has a lot of those: smooth, ice-scoured rocks rounded by the last glaciation and still rising from the sea by several millimetres a year.
Read the complete MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys is where the day begins. Next is Sunila Housing Area.
Alvar Aalto designed this place before the Second World War, and you can still read the plan on the ground. Sunila is a pulp mill on a rocky island near Kotka, on the Gulf of Finland, and Aalto designed both the mill buildings and the housing for the workers, in the late 1930s. The houses step down the slope in terraces among the pines, with an eye for views and shared space, which was unusual for an industrial settlement then. The mill still runs, with smoke rising over the pines on cold mornings, so the place is a working one, not a museum, and the housing area is lived in by residents who deserve some quiet.
Read the complete Sunila Housing Area write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sunila Housing Area comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is PORLOM II Tornikallio.
Tornikallio means tower rock in Finnish, and it is a common name for a rocky hill with a view. Artjärvi and Myrskylä lie in the rolling farmland where Uusimaa meets Kymenlaakso, a landscape of small lakes, red barns, rye and oat fields and patches of spruce forest, drained by the Porvoonjoki river on its way to the Gulf of Finland. It is gentler than the lake district farther north, and it has a well-worn look, with old wooden farmhouses and village churches painted white or ochre.
Read the complete PORLOM II Tornikallio write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 140 km into the recorded legs you reach PORLOM II Tornikallio. Next is back through Sunila Housing Area.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sunila Housing Area write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sunila Housing Area, late in the day. Next is MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys. That is the ride.
MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys → Sunila Housing Area is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sunila Housing Area → PORLOM II Tornikallio is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
PORLOM II Tornikallio → back through Sunila Housing Area is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sunila Housing Area → MÄKI-PÄÄLYS Mäkipällys is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.