August 2012, Crossing Iceland

2712 · 09-30-2012, 02:10 AM

Hey,

I didnt really get to the picture and text part of my journey but i did already make a 8 minute movie to give an impression about how i experienced iceland on my motorbike. A small teaser, i drop the bike 2ce in the water.

Now comes the difficult work of processing 1500 pictures.

anyone knows how to embed a youtube vid here?

The Little Movie

Wildman · 09-30-2012, 02:27 AM

EvilClown · 09-30-2012, 03:16 AM

Great video! We were just talking about Iceland last night. It's on the list.

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Originally Posted by 2712

anyone knows how to embed a youtube vid here?

The Little Movie

Great tutorial here. Good place to test your new mad skills is here.

Post up the pics as you can.

edit: tell us about this ferry.

2712 · 09-30-2012, 12:01 PM

So i was thinking about making a trip for august 2012.
I had still 5 weeks of vacation to plan and at first i wanted to ride to azarbijan and back, 14000 km true eastern europe and russia. But then i met Göran here on advrider.com and eventually i just booked my ticket.

I would leave for the 7th of august in Denmark and stay in Iceland for 3 weeks until the 28th of August!

Booking the ticket was fairly easy, as you only have one company, Smyril Line to book from.
I paid 910 euro's for a return ticket in a 4 bed berth including 4 meals.
Its a 2 day and 2 night trip each way. Afterwards i noticed that you could get the ticket for less if you booked from the .is or a scandinavian site instaid of the .com site. Even better conditions if you have an adress on Iceland to book for.

anyways.

Let the planning begin! I started to read about iceland and the preparations people make, especially the ford crossing made me nervouse in a positive way. I was going to cross and i was going to be prepeared!

So i made myself a snorkel and installed it about a month before departure in July.

Basicly what i did was cutting off a piece of swimmingpool vacume cleaner hose and by chance it fittet like a glove with the snorcle of bmw. It took me a while to figure out how to mount it in a way that i could easaly check the airfilter. But i did it and made a pretty decent job.

I alsow bought a foam oiled airfilter from touratech, just be be sure, you dont want your paper stocker to be wet and since they warned me about hip deep water to cross, i just made sure that i was prepared.

Now thinking about that tought, i would have never crossed a hip deep ford, i dont have the skill, its to scary and i dont want to mess up my bike or luggage

Wolfgang55 · 10-01-2012, 08:57 AM

Very good vid.....looks like a good ride w/ 2wd Ural & your snorkle.

2712 · 10-11-2012, 06:03 AM

i would update this topic every day, but because of problems in the family, i put it on hold for a few weeks.

09-30-2012, 02:10 AM	#1
2712 ^OP Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2011 Location: Belgium Oddometer: 358	August 2012, Crossing Iceland Hey, I didnt really get to the picture and text part of my journey but i did already make a 8 minute movie to give an impression about how i experienced iceland on my motorbike. A small teaser, i drop the bike 2ce in the water. Now comes the difficult work of processing 1500 pictures. anyone knows how to embed a youtube vid here? The Little Movie __________________ NordKapp rally 2011, 11 countries, 25days, 9900km couchsurfing allong the way. Iceland 2012, Crossing the highlands.

09-30-2012, 02:27 AM	#2
Wildman Man of Kent Joined: Feb 2007 Location: Riding my World Oddometer: 16,055	__________________ "Every county of England, every country of Europe and every (part of every other inhabited) continent of the Earth" ... 80% complete! Counties: 39 of 39 - done! Countries: 36 of 42; last up, Portugal, next up, Iceland Continents: 5 of 19; last up, North America (USA), next up, Central America (Cuba)

09-30-2012, 12:01 PM	#4
2712 ^OP Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2011 Location: Belgium Oddometer: 358	So i was thinking about making a trip for august 2012. I had still 5 weeks of vacation to plan and at first i wanted to ride to azarbijan and back, 14000 km true eastern europe and russia. But then i met Göran here on advrider.com and eventually i just booked my ticket. I would leave for the 7th of august in Denmark and stay in Iceland for 3 weeks until the 28th of August! Booking the ticket was fairly easy, as you only have one company, Smyril Line to book from. I paid 910 euro's for a return ticket in a 4 bed berth including 4 meals. Its a 2 day and 2 night trip each way. Afterwards i noticed that you could get the ticket for less if you booked from the .is or a scandinavian site instaid of the .com site. Even better conditions if you have an adress on Iceland to book for. anyways. Let the planning begin! I started to read about iceland and the preparations people make, especially the ford crossing made me nervouse in a positive way. I was going to cross and i was going to be prepeared! So i made myself a snorkel and installed it about a month before departure in July. Basicly what i did was cutting off a piece of swimmingpool vacume cleaner hose and by chance it fittet like a glove with the snorcle of bmw. It took me a while to figure out how to mount it in a way that i could easaly check the airfilter. But i did it and made a pretty decent job. I alsow bought a foam oiled airfilter from touratech, just be be sure, you dont want your paper stocker to be wet and since they warned me about hip deep water to cross, i just made sure that i was prepared. Now thinking about that tought, i would have never crossed a hip deep ford, i dont have the skill, its to scary and i dont want to mess up my bike or luggage __________________ NordKapp rally 2011, 11 countries, 25days, 9900km couchsurfing allong the way. Iceland 2012, Crossing the highlands. 2712 screwed with this post 09-30-2012 at 12:07 PM

10-11-2012, 06:03 AM	#6
2712 ^OP Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Jan 2011 Location: Belgium Oddometer: 358	i would update this topic every day, but because of problems in the family, i put it on hold for a few weeks. __________________ NordKapp rally 2011, 11 countries, 25days, 9900km couchsurfing allong the way. Iceland 2012, Crossing the highlands.

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10-01-2012, 08:57 AM	#5
Wolfgang55 Beastly Adventurer Joined: Dec 2006 Location: Next to Rio Bravo Oddometer: 2,953	Very good vid.....looks like a good ride w/ 2wd Ural & your snorkle.