CUSTOM CHROME EUROPE Bolt On And Ride Tour Rhein Time – Germany’s most romantic ride! View from the Loreley rock into the Rhine valley View from the old harbour of St. Goarshausen The Loreley bronze is sitting on the pier... ...of the old harbour basin, a 10 miutes walk. A short photo stop at the old harbour.
CUSTOM CHROME EUROPE PRESS RELEASE - PUBLICATION FREE OF CHARGE ALL IMAGES: The famous Loreley Rock has been a major traffic hazard for ships and especially floats of wood which were still being shipped well into the Fifties. St. Goarshausen also was a main harbour on the river, crane and some buidings still standing. Even thought the narrows in the river have been dynamited away since, the danger is still present: January 2011 saw the last major accident of a barge, blocking the Rhine here! O = a Assmannshausen is the starting point of many guided tours and the parade of Magic Bike Ruedesheim – since 2002 the most popular Custombike and Motorcycle event on the river. The Harley-Davidson Club Ruedesheim members plot some of the best touring rides into the Rhine and Taunus area – and for a few km we follow their tracks. O = a In Lorch – Rhein km 543 – you may see strange signs, signalling the „Freistaat Flaschenhals“ a „Free State“ that was accidentially formed by the occupation of Germany after World War 1: French and American „Bridgeheads“ on the east side of the Rhine had a radius of 30 km. What nobody realised, that the French and American Bridgeheads almost touched each other East of Lorch, effectively cutting all supply roads into the Rhine Valley between Lorch and Kaub, which then had to fall back on...smuggeling. When the US-Army left in 1923, things turned back to normal. Almost.
