More than 5000 bikers have come to the Harley Days in Dresden this year, according to the organizers. A good 800 riders took part in the biker parade on Sunday, which led about 20 kilometers through the city, as spokesman Holger Zastrow said. "More would like to participate, but unfortunately the conditions do not allow more."
Most bikers came to the 120th birthday of Harley Davidson from Germany, but there were also riders from abroad at the meeting. The oldest machine came from the year 1932. On the festival grounds in the Ostragehege, visitors enjoyed the American way of life for three days.
The Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) had criticized the Harley-Davidson meeting. While one has to fight also in Dresden with successive heat summers, an meeting with high exhaust gas loads looks "as fallen from the time", had explained the Dresden BUND deputy Daniel flower. With the "Harley Days" it goes around a commercial meeting with thousands of motorcycles in an overheated city, in which air pollutants are anyway an everyday problem.
