May 1 Bike Race Through Eppstein

One of the most exciting days of the year for Eppstein is the May 1st holiday, when professional bikers cycle through Alt-Eppstein's quaint cobblestone streets, peddle up the painfully steep hill towards Vockenhausen, then whiz down our Bergstrasse. The atmosphere is always electric with TV helicopters overhead, police motorcades, team cars with bike carriers, and buses for the injured passing through, not to mention the cyclists themselves biking past at breakneck speed.

The professionals cycle 201.7 kilometers through Eschborn, Frankfurt, and the Taunus for the race called "Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt" (last year: "Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop," successor of "Rund um den Henninger Turm"). Our family tradition is to cheer them on as they come down the hill near our house, then walk down the hill and indulge ourselves with some delicious sundaes at the local Italian ice-cream cafe.