At the moment my number one hobby is motorcycling (and motorcycles).I have two motorcycles. Older one is Suzuki RG250W Gamma and that was my first bike that I have ever own. I bought it at summer -95, at the time when I was studying in KKuopio. I rode four summers with it. At the end of -98 season I put it into pieces. You can read more about that project from my RG pages.
Picture1. Suzuki RG250W Gamma '84/'86The second bike that I had was Suzuki GSF600S Bandit. You can see that in picture below (click it to get a bigger picture). I had that Bandit for two summers. At the beginning of May -99 I got it from Forssa. By the time I pick it, it was quite cold to drive because temperature was only one degree over zero and it was sleeting (sleet = something between water and snow). And the distance between Forssa and Jyväskylä is about 250km. There is something more at the Bandit pages . My current bike is Honda VTR1000F.
I've been thinking that when that RG-project is ready I will start a new project, I hope. There is one good choice for next project. My father's uncle has old Jawa 350 and I have been thinking that it would be nice to restorate it. Yearmodel of it, is something like -53 or -54. Otherwise that kind of bike is not so interesting (is there any uninteresting bikes?), but this bike has been inside of old house as long as I can remember (over 20 years) and it is good condition. Well little bit rust hear and there...Bike should be complete, no parts missing! And one more reason is that it would be nice to keep that bike in family.
Picture2.
Suzuki GSF600S Bandit '97
You can check from motorcycletrips page what kind of trips I have made with bike(s). For now there is only one story from summer -99...But in future there will be more!
Here is something about my other hobbies...Music (listening and equipment). I'm listening many kind of music (mostly rock/pop). If I have to mention some bands they will be Metallica (heavist end), Manic Street Preachers, Garbage, and so on...All kind of "old" heavy is close to my heart! Then there is something not so hard: Suzanne Vega, Cardigans, Billie Myers, Alanis Morissette. And of course there is some bands from Finland too: Eppu Normaali, Kolmas Nainen (broken-up), and so on...
Equipment that I'm using are following:
Amplifiers are the first thing I will change, to something with DTS- and Dolby Digital Decoder. And of course bigger TV would be nice. And a decent MD-deck. And...And...And...
- CD-player: Sony CDP-700XE, Sony CDP-250 (portable)
- DVD-player: Pioneer DV-515 (multicode, bought from China)
- MD-player: Sony MZR-30
- ProLogic decoder/amp: Yamaha DSP-E492
- Amplifier: Pioneer A-339
- Tuner: Pioneer F-229L
- LP-player: (old) Pioneer PL-120
- Main speakers: HiFi 50/3 (selfmade)
- Rear and center speakers: Hifi 6/2 (selfmade)
- Hifi-VCR: Toshiba V705W
- TV: Finlux 25" Nicam-stereo receiver
I've also do some photographying. Well, it's not that serious...Maybe I'll put some of pics into these pages in future...By the way my camera is Canon EOS300 with 28-80 and 75-300 zooms. It also includes battery back with trigger. I also have some stands and selfmade remote trigger.
And then something about exercise...At summertime I used to play football in team called FC Henkinen Yliote (in English it is something like FC Mental Advantage ;-) ). Now that I have moved to another city, I have to find a new team...Maybe it will be "Real Joutseno"?!
At wintertime we are playing floorball with my jobpals. And of course I'm cross country skiing at wintertime, with skating-style. I used to play ice-hockey but studying, and now working, is preventing it. And if I just have time I play rinkball too.
And I like to travel too...
I have been in a few countries. Maybe I will tell more about those trips some day, but here is just the list. At business trips I have tried to see something else than work too...
- Sweden (northern parts and Stockholm, several years ago)
- Norway (northern parts and Lofoten islands, several years ago)
- Israel (Eilat) ((and little bit Egypt on that same trip), '92)
- Greece (island of Santorini, 98)
- Germany (several times in several places, business trips, 2 months overall, '98& '99)
- Austria (during Germany's business trips, '99)
- Chile (central Chile, Los Angéles, 2 months, '98)
- China (Beijing 2 days, Shanghai one day, Changshu 150km inlands from Shanghai, 2.5months, '99)
- U.S.A (Bastrop, Louisiana business trip, 4 months overall, '00)
- Greece (island of Crete, August '00)
- Canada (business trip, April '01)
- Portugal (island of Madeira, April '02)