Around the Coast 2026

06/07/2026

Raftsundet

06/07/2026

Yesterday started with perfect weather for once, sun and 18 degrees, and after a wonderful sleepover in Unstad, I headed down to the cafe inside the valley where I had my morning coffee and a cinamon bun for breakfast. They served it with a slice of watermelon, orange and a splash of whipped cream. The bun was freshly baked and still warm.
What a perfect way to start the day.🧁☕️
Unstad is famous for it’s perfect waves and was filled with surfers catching them.
Headed onwards to Eggum and had a view out on the ocean in perfect silence from tourists, just my own breathing broke the silence.
After an hour rest I went on to Sandøy, Kvalsund before i rode down the western side of Vestvågøy to complete the coast of this island.
Once again towards Leknes and next stop was the Viking museum at Borg before I headed to Gimsøy, and drove around the island twice.
Why you might ask, well first round was planned, second was to find a spot where I could raise the tent, so I didn’t have to ride out a full night of heavy rain.
Got soaked trying to find a suitable spot but eventually gave in and put it up in the rain.
Just when I was done and inside the tent, the horses you see on one of the pictures got startled when they discovered my tent around a corner and the girls riding them had a giggle.
Turned in at 20:30 which was quite early.

05/07/2026

After chasing mechanics, tires and ferries for a couple days I finally arrived in Lofoten yesterday at 2:30 I docked in Moskenes and headed towards Å to find a campsite, had spottet a possible location on the ferry, and yepp, unoccupied and suitable it was indeed. So after half an hour rigging and unloading everything I fell asleep pretty quick. Two days with less than 5h sleep in total. Waiting for ferries, kids playing at the ferries and so on kept me awake.
Anyway the 8h sleep did it’s magic and I set off from Å and started om my 9th leg to cover the Moskenes Island and Flakstad Island, heading onwards to Vestvåg Island.
The close to 500 km round trip on all the location on these islands was completed and I writing this from my campsite in Unstad valley.
Weather was for once on my side and with a pitstop to refuel the gastank and the stomack in Reine while the citizens amused the tourists with Reinedagan, i had a nice cheesecake and a cappucino in the sun chatting with some danish couples about this and that.
Flakstad, Ramberg, Nusfjord and Ballstad as the main locations but with a lot of detours to follow the coastline as much as possible led to a full day with many stops and views at places I had never been to before.
Nusfjord impressed me more than Reine, is def worth a revisit next time I’ll be going to Lofoten.
Some Spanish students out celebrating their graduation and an Austrailian on a walkabout, and a Scotish couple doing sections kayaking the islands, shared their history and got some traveltips in return made my social needs covered.
Good to be back on the bike after all the ferries or rather waiting for them and far less trafic than expexted so far.

03/07/2026

I decided to skip Værøy on this trip in Lofoten but will go back here next time I get to Bodø.
The reason for this is the lack of ferries towards Lofoten tomorrow, no ferries on saturday, welcome to Norway

03/07/2026

More from Røst

03/07/2026

03/07/2026

At Røst for the first time, this place is just something for the eye

02/07/2026

02/07/2026

Bodø with Landego and midnight sun is just breathtaking

02/07/2026

As part of the project, I’ve tested the Bridgestone T33 tires on my bike on this journey.
As you see from the images this set was swapped out with a new pair after 7420km
The trapping was becoming a problem and was dangerous to drive.
7400 km is relative short for a pair of tires, and many would state that this is caused by lack of airpressure, but they would only be partially right
The bike has been between 2,5 on cold tires on the front wheel and 2,7 on warm tires while the back wheel has been between 2,7 and 2,8 the entire trip, so they are within the recomended pressure.
So what caused this to occur?
First of all I’ve driven around 1000km on gravel roads, and 6,4 on tarmac
Bike weigth is prox to 420 kilo.
Many would say use Michelin Road 6 GT on this bike, and they are right, but if these T33 didn’t face the bad road conditions it is in northern Norway, they would prob be useful for many
More km if the trapping had not been as it is now.
On the next set I’ve increased the pressure to 2,7 and 2,8 on f/b-wheels on cold tires to see if that makes any signifiant change to the wear.
The tarmac up here eats tires the locals say.
And I believe them.
The general tarmac from Kirkenes to Tromsø has been like more or less the same with rougher surface and more tireworn tracks from the cars, making the cross section of it look like a rollercoaster, and all peaks has cut out tracks in the length of the roads from the ice scraping tools they use during wintertime to remove the ice from the roads, making the bike naturally follow these lines as they are rairoadtracks
So driving skifta a lot from laying on top of the peaks, which wears out the middle part of the tire, while the valleys wear a lot on the side of the tire when it tries to climb up to the next peak.
We will see what the change in preassure does in the next 7000km