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Dave's suggestions especially are duly noted -- but with fingers crossed, because I'm now 6000 miles into my trip round Europe... very little offroading, though some of the 'roads' so far have been interesting to say the least.

The bike's been fantastic. Though I've already spotted the thing about the headlights & the battery...

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What model Bonnie did you get ?
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It's the bog standard 790 - this year's model.

Which has amazed quite a few Norwegians so far.. especially the gentleman who, when asked, thought it was from "errrr... 1957?"

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dont get me wrong, i think its a great bike and like all the hinckley triumphs (i have a 955i sprint ST) has a great engine. triumph only sell bikes on the basis of giving test rides, because if we took a long cold look at the average finish and cycle parts in places we'd walk away. but go for a ride 1st and they got you by the balls, they know that, thats why they have such a huge demo fleet, thats why i got mine and good luck to em i say
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hi mike, did you get to norway with the ferry boat or have you gone the long way round, via denmark? a friend and i are thinking of going up into the arctic circle next year (someone told us we would either freeze our nuts off or get them chewed off by mosquitos, who could resist?) and id be interested on the best way
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I took the Harwich-Esbjerg ferry and rode north through Sweden and Finland to Kirkenes and Murmansk. The route is called the Inlandsvagen -- inland road -- which I chose as the rest of the trip I'm hugging the coast all the way. Very straightforward and good road conditions almost all the way.

More details on my website ;-)

The mosquitos are the size of sparrows. (I'd been wondering why there were so many sparrows).

But don't be fooled by the term 'polar'.. if you're as lucky as I was you'll be sunbathing far, far north of the artic circle. Of course I'm paying for that now as it's raining steadily in southern Norway!

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cool mike, thanks for the tip, the ferry would take a massive chunk out the trip and avoid all the euro-beuro ubercops who want to empty your visa card and anal probe you for doing one kph over the limit
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