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Extreme cyclist Martin Neitzke and “Everesting” on Feldberg

Martin Neitzke takes a hand from the handlebar, a few mighty drops of sweat land on the top tube of his racing machine and form a long, narrow lake there. He waves with a wiping motion of all five fingers, as cyclists at the top of a group do when they signal danger to the passengers. He makes a small turn around a full, open diaper on the right side of the road. Not far behind the so-called applause curve, which with its red and white curbs is reminiscent of a Formula 1 racetrack and often induces motorcyclists and cyclists on the Feldberg in Hesse to take risky maneuvers. Neitzke, too, you can’t say otherwise, is a motorist. A muscle driver of a special kind. With a special daily goal.

“The diaper has been here this morning,” says Neitzke, without a trace of shortness of breath in his voice. So since at least 6 a.m. when he started pedaling at the roundabout in Oberursel-Hohemark. It is now 5:30 p.m. and Neitzke is on his thirteenth ascent to the summit of Feldberg. “It’s getting tough,” he says, looking at the data and seeing that his calories burned today have exceeded the 8000 mark: “My wattages are slowly going down for that.”

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