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Lake Constance hinterland
At 17 you still have dreams …

… which today turn the clocks backwards in the form of ingeniously thundering youngtimers from the 70s.

Werner Koch

07/01/2004

A look back at the motorcycle scene 35 years ago. The air trembles and trembles, a black dot races like a comet over the home straight of the old Solitude racetrack and ?? wrrrooooaaaaam ?? past. A handful of young boys in leather jackets and bell-bottoms frantically rush onto their 50s mopeds, chasing after them without helmets and with their clothes blowing. The machine has to be seen. Stands crackling
the red-hot Honda CB 450 half a kilometer further at the motorcycle meeting point, a man in black leather pulls the towel from his face and grins with satisfaction. The boys, a cheeky gang in the rest of life, eye the sparkling Honda silently and reverently. “It is definitely more than 200,” whispers the boss. ??Certainly!?? the clique agrees. “But it probably costs a lot of coal too,” the chief ends the crush and the 50s horde screeches away. Spring 2003. In the meantime, the current sports comets are able to achieve 200 km / h in second gear. And for 3495 marks or 1787 euros, which a CB once cost, you might find a nailed-together 125 cc in the hardware store, but not a real motorcycle. But the youngtimer market is booming, and some are tempted to dream their childhood dreams again and to stuff their garage with old iron for a few hundred euros.

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?? Des do sin die Allerbeschde ??, a Baden farmer about his crunchy Lake Constance apples.

?? Sell Honda CB 450 K in parts, good condition. ?? Three two one ?? mine! Hours later, the VW bus is full to the roof with oil-dripping wine boxes and musty cardboard boxes. Inside a colorful mix of parts, you can’t use everything anymore, but too good for the garbage. For the next few years it will besiege every free shelf. Between tattered benches and messed up gear junk there are just enough chunks to put together a complete Honda CB 450. Whether K0, K1 or K2 ?? the overview gets lost in the confusion at some point. Doesn’t matter! Mainly CB 450. One that thunders like the black comet from back then.
After countless hours of cleaning, scrubbing and tinkering, the former scrapyard is black and shiny on its wheels. The rust-red broth from the tank diluted with 15 liters of fresh schnapps, rucksack up and down the post. If that works out? With the worn out timing chain tensioner? And those rogue camshafts that have had many an oil-free hour behind them? No matter now, that lasts! Or check the breakers again as a precaution? Then the rotten wiring harness to the alternator ?? whether there is still juice going through there at all? No more black painting, it’s going great. When the engine is turned off for the first time, a fountain of rusty dust and coal roaring out of the silencers? or what’s left of it after 35 years. Lo and behold, the loud ticking is gone and the idle is stable. CB is back.

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One that makes the milk: cozy Allgau cow in contact with hectic townspeople.

The Honda rewinds time with every kilometer. The film runs upright behind the chrome-plated handlebars, the bleached instruments in view. One that you should take your time. Without hectic, without stress. At the seven Hegaubergen, firmly in Baden-Alemannic hands, we dive into the land behind Lake Constance. The lake, where you step on your feet in the pedestrian passages, get your cappuccino with cream served in overpriced street cafes and you let your time be stolen in long queues for check-in at ticket counters and french fries stalls.
Thirty minutes north of this, the Honda sails on a south-east course through landscape and culture that change every hour. With the silhouette of Hohentwiel and the mighty Hohe Stoffel in the back, the old twin scrambles from the idyllic Wasserburger Tal onto the range of hills around Heudorf im Hegau, our first vantage point. If you are lucky enough to have a crystal-clear blow-dryer day, you are hit by a blow. The Swiss Alps stretch over the horizon as if in a widescreen cinema. The almost kitschy postcard idyll will accompany us for the next four hundred kilometers. With a constant change of light and perspective, but within sight of every mountain range.


Lake Constance hinterland


Map: Mairs Geografischer Verlag / Renate Maucher

Time required: two days, length: approx. 420 kilometers

Over the curve carousel it goes to Honstetten, further to Reute in an easterly direction. Anyone who knows how to read maps will feel dizzy here. Fits great with the old CB, which has no place on the boring federal roads. When stalking the smallest of paths, only the position of the sun and the inner compass indicate the direction. And the certainty that roads up to 3.5 tons also lead to Rome. Just not directly and in the shortest possible time. But
for example via Hecheln, Munchhof, Mahlspuren. Quickly crossing the noisy B 14, we disappear in the direction of Hohenbodman. View number two, the Alps are still there, but slightly obscured by the haze of Lake Constance.
The Honda feels good. The engine oil stays where it belongs, the carburetors have stopped drooling, and the timing chain tensioner tauts what it takes. One kick and we continue our journey. Head first down to Ernatsreute, via Frickingen to the Heiligenberg. Nice curves, but unfortunately blocked by fat coaches. Less than three kilometers further we find what we are looking for. Rest in Betenbrunn. The village has everything you need: church, pub, coffee, cake. And the highly recommended Landgasthof zur Post. Too early for us, the day still has a few hours left.

Lake Constance hinterland (information)

If you want to discover the hinterland of Lake Constance down to the last beautiful corner, you have to avoid the main routes and steer your journey over the small paths and country roads.

getting there
Where you join the group is not important. Either in the eastern section of the route on the A 98 Memmingen – Lindau, Autobahn exit Weibensberg / Lindau. Or in the western part, where the A 81 Stuttgart ?? Singen with the Engen autobahn exit offers the ideal access.

Stay
There are enough hotels and country inns along the entire route. The following accommodations are recommended: Landgasthof Zur Post in Betenbrunn, phone 07554 / 9988-0; Montfort-Schlossle in Lindau-Streitelsfingen, phone 08382/72811; Traube in Kreenheinstetten, phone 07570/440; Adler in Inneringen, phone 07577/546; Berggasthof Hochsten, phone 07555/2100; To the bridge in Rechtenstein / Donau, phone 07375/257; Gasthof Blankbrau in Zwiefaltendorf / Donau, phone 07373/7322; Zum Schwanen in Andelfingen, phone 07371/78643; Gasthof Rossknecht in Deggenhausen, phone 07555/11. The prices per night with breakfast are between 18 and 45 euros.

literature
The general map Grobblatt 6 »Baden Wurttemberg« offers a good overview. In order to find the small streets, cycling maps are recommended, for example the Lake Constance cycle map from the Bielefelder Verlagsanstalt BVA on a scale of 1: 50000 or the cycle route map from the State Surveying Office Baden Wurttemberg, sheet 52 / Lake Constance on a scale of 1: 100000.

Worth seeing
In addition to countless churches and monasteries, motorcyclists interested in technology can pay a visit to the small technology museum on the buses. There are some old motorcycles and tractors, but mainly machine tools for engine production from the 19th century.

The motorcycle
The Honda CB 450 K, built around 1969/70, was assembled from several machines and existing individual parts. Power around 40 hp from a double-cam engine with torsion bar valve springs. Price for an almost complete motorcycle: around 500 euros. Completed in around 100 working hours and put into a mobile condition.

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