I find incredible how uncreative often the overlanders are on route planning by only taking direct main roads
Looked at your intended route: that's by far the most boring road one could take through Estonia. You will not see much other than semi-overcrowded road with near-zero scenery and utmost absolute zero experience on tasting the Estonian true soul.
I quickly compiled a vastly spiced up route for an overland traveller seeking experience over boredom who enters from the place you intend to and end up in Tallinn for a ferry.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Goes through various places assuming you aren't alien to some decent gravel road dash and some very ridable "two-line" trails (even with a heavy bike or a shiny street bike if you're a rider enough, unless it has rained heavily the same or previous day - then skip those, you can always go around on the main roads) through nice scenery and do some side-trips your own on some locations you like to spend more time, i.e. Soomaa national park, visit the Old Pärnu beach [nice calm beach, not crowded like the main Pärnu white beach] I usually go to swim to. You can official camp in near Häädemeeste or pretty much wild-camp anywhere where's not a private land (almost always marked and you find plenty state-land and forests to camp).
After seeing Paldiski bank head straight to Tallinn (the only boring and overcrowded road on this map, but no other way round to Tallinn). Ends in Lennusadam, Tallinn, which is a nice museum to visit.
Among the best biking is on the Baltic Sea islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa though, but you need to extend your timing couple of more days for that. Second best biking is around South- and Eastern-Estonia, but this also requires some 1-2 additional days. Let me know if you need any local biker's advice for those areas.
Ride safe,
Margus
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