“More recently, I drove 150 kilometers a day,” says Holger. “I lost my work, my wife kicked me out, but I had saddle bags and a tent. I was happy, I could take a bicycle as long as I could ride a bicycle. And to tell someone about it. During this time, I went to Oderradweg, Weserradweg, all Rhine, including the Moselle cycle, Elbe -elster-WEG, Bielefeleg BYPESLD, Equipment, Varieties.
“You can go now,” the guardian whispered. “He will not stop.” He leads Holger back to the rehabilitation room. “Good … excellent … good landscape,” he comments languidly, because Holger does not listen. As he says here, he is “in the tour” – a trans is the likeness of the heroic story and statistics of the run.
Holger is not an isolated case. More and more people are suffering from the lack of control of a drive pulse with a reassessment of motor, short pathological pedalophilia, also called “bicycle dependence.”
Nele Neuvirt is a psychologist at drug addiction at Hanover’s university hospital: “This is a rich illness, but clearly addiction. Most men ü40 are affected. “
Midlifecrisis by Bike? “In some way. Burnt people come from a rather progressive environment, they do not buy Harley Davidson. But there is already an expensive bicycle for a bicycle. But the impulse is the same: mostly men who arrived professionally in the dead ends of their career. Bicycle bikes are the only chance to move forward again in life. ”
We visit a “group of relatives affected by pedalophilia”, which she cares about: six women at an average age and one man. All of them lost their life partners on a bicycle. Her stories are similar: “At first it was bicycle tours with a family. Dad is always ahead. First, children were made, then I am, ”says Birgit. “He just continued. Since at the end we got a selfie from the path of the Nila-Capstadt cycle. ”
“At first we rode a bicycle for two,” says Mark from his friend. “They visited water locks, returned somewhere in a strawberry mug with cream. Then I became too slow, and now he drives only alone. At least 120 kilometers per day. It lasted three years. I have to stroke his calves during sex. But I do not want this, now he has hips, like an elephant. “
Laughter is released, although they all know here: their partners are quite serious worried
The rest in the group nod pretty. Hilka whispers: “My husband recently told me during sex:“ Listen, I can even be free. ”“ Gevin in the room, Sabina throws: “If no one gets up, he says that he has a record.” Laughter is released, although you know everything here: your partners are quite difficult to disturb.
Sabina is now in a couple of therapy with her George. We can accompany you to one of the meetings in Hildesham. Why Hildeshaim, we are surprised, was there a place for therapy?
“Yes,” Sabin sighs. “But the route is so beautiful, says Georg.” She herself takes on to herself, her husband-cycle of Lane Hide. “Small climbs and well developed. I come to therapy. “
“He cannot say two sentences without sitting on a bicycle,” Sabina complains at the meeting. “Not true!” – George contradicts. “With Frieder on Elberadweg, we talked about other things within two days: for example, a transport policy.”
The therapist nods. “Georg, have you noticed it yourself?”
“What should I notice? If the wasp flies under a bicycle helmet, I notice! What did I do wrong again? “
“This is so bad,” Sabina complains, “now I know more about the condition of the bicycle path between … What I know, Stendal and Ulzen, but not about how my husband does!”
Long passages gravel road
“What do you say, Georg?” Georg roars: “What can I say? Mopper and long passages are gravel roads – how are I doing?! ” Sabina turns his eyes, the therapist sighs and asks us to go. It will be a bumpy route with an oncoming wind today.
“This is pure jealousy on his bicycle!” Hilka is recognized in the group. She tried it with sabotage, bent knitting needles, her husband Stefan changed her. “Not without mourning for hours, in what actions you could bend: with a sloppy maneuver in front of the tractor on Verravega or in the event of an accident with a badger on Dzhamelner Gruzenkura?” Hilk sank his bicycle in Masca. “It’s pointless! For three weeks, Stefan screamed! All considerations for replacement! Each meals: pasta with protective sheets, pea soup with quick tension! ” The new bike is now parked in marriage, Hilka moved to the garage.
It is assumed that 40 percent of bicycles folded in the waters go to the report on pedalophylia members: too often, intact bicycles -trackers are restored using displaced saddle bags.
“I thought it was possible in winter,” complains to Hilke. “But before Christmas, Stefan took off in his memoirs about his last rounds, he planned new from the eve of Christmas. We know God more important topics! Our daughter came out like a trance. Stefan inspired this only on the route of trans-balcony. ” She sighs. “I think that he sees only pedestrians in us.”
The rest in the group nod for obvious reasons. Birgit says: “Our children know only their father in colorful panties from Lirakh.”
Niel Neuvirt reports a particularly difficult case from Vermont. There, the man talked so much about riding a bicycle that his wife bleeding chain oil. “What do you think he did?” We twitch with our shoulders. “He received a bicycle chain and lubricated it. Only then did he go to his wife to the doctor – in the trailer on a bicycle. ”
The pedal -filler of therapy was unlikely to be investigated. “Oberi has your bike as amputation,” says Neuvirt, “but will help gravel and a bad distance.”
Holger’s rehabilitation clinic in Nationalbostel can only be reached more than 15 kilometers. Holger never passed more than five kilometers, then he carried his favorite bike back to the room. For a long time before healing, there are still many short distances.