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House route PS on the way with readers

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Time seems to have stood still in Lower Franconia. Picturesque villages, streets with little traffic and endless curves. Jurgen Kleid granted PS the pleasure.

Uwe Seitz

09/19/2012

If the two-cylinder wouldn’t bang like that, you would have the feeling of gliding through Josef von Eichendorff’s novella “From the life of a good-for-nothing”. The landscape is untouched, baroque towers soar hundreds of times into the sky, and Eichendorff’s romantic descriptions run down the street to the left and right like in a film.

But thank God we don’t have to take the stagecoach, we are on the road in Lower Franconia with the PS-KTM and the two BMWs from PS readers Jurgen Kleid and Oliver Kunzig. This is their territory. “Very little traffic and great surface”, Jurgen promised us on the phone.


House route PS on the way with readers


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Time has stood still in Mainbernheim, Jurgen (far right) has a lot to tell.

Jurgen has been riding a motorcycle here since he was 18. That’s 47 years now. In the middle of Wurzburg he runs “Das goldene Fass”, a small hotel near the Residenzschloss, where we finally meet for the tour. The trained chef has traveled all over the world as a professional diver, but he was always available for motorcycles. Next to his buddy Oliver’s BMW S 1100 R is his 1200 sports boxer. “In the last few issues you always had Ducatis, so I took the BMW.” Did he have any more motorcycles? “I’ll show you later,” laughs Jurgen, then it starts.

Along the Main, we first drive unspectacular roads upstream. In Mainbernheim we come through a backdrop from a coat-and-sword film, anywhere a musketeer could jump onto the cobblestone street.

From Marktsteft it gets more peppy, and Jurgen lets it run on Schwanberg. There used to be hill climbs here, and the way the serpentine road leads up to the monastery complex must have been really fun. Jurgen also had fun running once, he explains during a stop. From 1991 onwards, he and his wife Gisela attended a lot of training courses from Mugello to Assen. But in 2004 his wife had a fatal accident with her VTR at the Sachsenring. “It wasn’t so much fun after that, but when I think of Brno – great route.”

Jurgen laughs, but he is noticeably uncomfortable with the subject. He’d rather keep going, and Oliver now also promises us pure curves in the Steigerwald Nature Park. And they both keep what they promise. Without ever getting in the way of a truck or many cars, it goes on good roads through small forests and wide meadows. Even on this working day you have the feeling of being completely alone on the road. All kinds of curves for every pace meander through the wonderful landscape. Shortly before Erbach we even discover the Franconian Corkscrew: Behind a knoll, the road drops steeply in a long left-hand bend – wonderful! “In the evening and early in the morning you have to watch out for deer crossing,” warns Jurgen. “But nothing else is really going on here.”


House route PS on the way with readers


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A nice collection that is regularly moved – the main thing is that it is twins.

We leave Upper Franconia on the right, even if Oliver and Jurgen praise the advantages of the routes towards Bamberg. Instead we drive in Bogen via Kitzingen, through wine villages and endless vineyards back to Wurzburg. Up to Jurgen’s “country seat”, a garden plot outside the city. They are then in an open shed, his motorcycles. “They’re all allowed here. In winter they are more protected. ”He has a Diavel, a Bimota Tesi, a Tuono Mille in a limited R version, a GS for alpine tours and an original BMW R 90 Daytona. “Has just accumulated over the years,” he says. Franconian understatement – fits the landscape!

Lower Franconia tour


House route PS on the way with readers


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Winbau dominates on the Main, curves in the Steigerwald, and the landscape beckons everywhere.


House route PS on the way with readers


Werel / MairDumont

The tour through Lower Franconia in detail.

If you don’t just want to ride your motorcycle undisturbed and briskly on good roads, but also appreciate picture book landscapes as well as good Franconian wine and the hearty and inexpensive food of the region, you should make a detour to Wurzburg. Jurgen Kleid likes to be motivated for tours by guests of the “Goldener Fasses” (Semmelstrasse 13). But even so, there are fantastic motorcycle routes in all directions, where sporty drivers get their money’s worth. Be it the Rhon in the west, the area around Bad Kissingen or deep into Franconia, it is worthwhile, and there is also a lot on offer culturally.

Distance covered:
approx. 200 km

Sightseeing tip:
Residenzschloss and Marienburg in Wurzburg, Riemenschneider work

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