Cycle Tour Bike trip to the North Cape
Dag 9, etape/stage 7: Forssa-Tampere
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Added on 03 Mar 2014
on 08 Apr 2014
Cycle route metrics
ridden
Total distance in km
99
Cumulative elevation gain in m
546
Avg. slope uphill in %
0,55
Cumulative elevation loss in m
573
Min. height
78
Max. height
144
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Track points in total
948
Track points per km (avg)
10
Start/endpoint
Start location
Forssa, Southern Finland, FI (105 m NHN)
End location
Tampere, Western Finland, FI (78 m NHN)
ridden on
25 May 2010
Weather
Changing cloud cover with some longer sunny spells. Fairly warm. Light breeze from West.
Accommodation
Tampere Camping Härmälä
Leirintäkatu 8
FI-33900 Tampere
Properties
A good road without bike lane, but with only light traffic out of Forssa. Some trouble finding a perfect place to eat my lunch packet. After Urjala station an even quieter and pleasant road to Toijala. From there on a bike lane along a trunk road. When it ends, I have to cycle in heavy traffic on short pieces alternating with a quiet following road until that runs into the trunk road to Tampere. After Lempäälä the excellent system of wide tarmaced bike roads begins. At a huge junction I easily find through the suburb of Härmälä down to the camp site at the lakeside a few kilometres south of Tampere. Traffically an almost perfect stage in nice weather.
Remarks
Today I eventually caught up with my plans of cycling from Hanko to Tampere in three days after the delay and short distance on the first Finnish stage. Morning stop at the church in Koijärvi and some trouble finding a perfect place to have my lunch on the shore of the lake of Kokonjärvi, just because I wanted to be, where I had originally planned to pitch my tent on the day before. But the good roads, the nice weather and the rather flat terrain meant that the stage did not feel that long. After a good meal in a restaurant in Sääksjärvi I arrived at Tampere's camp site in daylight.