- Title: CZECH REPUBLIC: HARLEY DAVIDSON OWNERS HOLD MASS MOTORBIKE RALLY
- Date: 15th June 1996
- Summary: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC (JUNE 15, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: EXTERIOR OF HARLEY OWNERS GROUP (HOG) CENTRE/ SIGNS (3 SHOTS) 0.11 2. GV/MV/CU: INTERIORS OF HOG SHOP, VARIOUS OF HARLEY-DAVIDSON GOODS AND ACCESSORIES FOR SALE; PEOPLE IN SHOP (7 SHOTS) 0.48 3. GV: RIDERS ON HARLEYS HEADING TO MEETING AREA 1.02 4. VARIOUS: RIDERS AND THEIR HARLEY-DAVIDSON BIKES AT OPEN EVENT (7 SHOTS) 1.56 5. VARIOUS TRACKING SHOTS: HARLEY-DAVIDSON RIDERS DRIVING THROUGH THE STREETS (7 SHOTS) 2.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 30th June 1996 13:00
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- Location: PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
- Country: EUROPE
- Reuters ID: LVA1R8C2VKSCGK9GBNV7HLF6CF2O
- Story Text: INTRO: Prague was treated to a ride past with a difference on Saturday - hundreds of HOG's drove through the city centre to celebrate their sixtieth anniversary.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- It may seem like yet another piece of American culture doing the rounds in post-communist eastern Europe, but Prague's "Harley Owners Group" (HOG) has been around for a very long time.
Formed in former Czechoslovakia back in 1926 and claiming to be the first such grouping outside the United States, HOG has survived one world war and years of communist rule to the present day.
Saturday (June 15) saw the staging of the annual HOG rally in the newly formed Czech Republic. Spread over two days, it's dedicated to a parade of gleaming and shiny Harleys, their not-so-sleek riders and above all what the organisers call "having fun".
Saturday's outing ended in a mass bike ride through the streets of Prague.
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