Ylläs is located in the western side of Lapland 600 miles from Helsinki up North.

My ride started with a bad luck, since the system burned a fuse only less than 10 miles from home. I knew which fuse, but finding the leak took rest of the day. A hint: Always check your own wiring at first. Now the "leak" was so small that I could not see it without my reading glasses. So I restarted my ride next day and I made 600 miles to Ylläs in 14 hours arriving there at 11 pm same evening. The other misfortune was my TomTom Rider which broke down 150 miles from home. So always keep a manual map as a backup (as I did). Still the GPS would have been nice during the trip. I got a replacement after the Rally as warranty.

 

The locals were inspecting Buell.

 

 

 

The parade was organized to village called Kurtakko.

 

 

 

Häre's new bike with a guitar bag.

 

 

 

Real H-D riders were sleeping in the tents. During the night the temperature was close to freezing point.

 

 

 

Hotel Ylläs-Saaga is very nice and clean place with a small bath with pools.

 

 

 

In Ylläs after 14-hour ride. This was the darkest it gets in Lapland.

 

 

 

These are bells from Vaskikello. Somehow this brought to my ming old song called "Ring My Bell"