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Wishing you an Awesome 2025 & many fun rides!
#1
To everyone here on Bikeride.com and wherever you are in the world, have an amazing 2025 from Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia!😁

For me mountain biking in Nature is my GoTo in my life.

I hope you get in as much fun as I do! 🚵🏻‍♂️💨

A Calm Mind is Your Home 😊
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#2
A happy, safe and adventurous new year to you all..

If anybody plans a trip to India, please join me with your mountain/fat bike as I explore the mountains and Himalayas.

(12-30-2024, 07:16 PM)Flowrider Wrote:  To everyone here on Bikeride.com and wherever you are in the world, have an amazing 2025 from Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia!😁

For me mountain biking in Nature is my GoTo in my life.

I hope you get in as much fun as I do! 🚵🏻‍♂️💨

A Calm Mind is Your Home 😊
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#3
(12-30-2024, 07:16 PM)Flowrider Wrote:  To everyone here on Bikeride.com and wherever you are in the world, have an amazing 2025 from Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia!😁

For me mountain biking in Nature is my GoTo in my life.

I hope you get in as much fun as I do! 🚵🏻‍♂️💨

A Calm Mind is Your Home 😊

Happy New Year!
Peace, love & lots of fun on the bike!
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#4
Thanks @Flowrider! I hope January is treating you well and wish everyone here a fantastic 2025.
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#5
Happy new year @Flowrider !
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#6
Thanks @enkei and @meamoantonio. If you have a goal(s) you want to achieve this year, I hope they've got off to a positive start. Smile
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#7
(01-12-2025, 06:54 PM)Flowrider Wrote:  Thanks @enkei and @meamoantonio. If you have a goal(s) you want to achieve this year, I hope they've got off to a positive start. Smile

Not really. Since just after Xmas, I've been staying 99% of the time at my parents' helping dad care for my increasingly demented mum. Aiming to move her to a care home soon, then I can take a rest.

Life, eh?
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#8
Sorry to hear that @enkei. Hopefully, things will settle down soon. I spent a few weeks with my 80+-year-old dad, and I was reminded of the importance of health, but also its fragility.

(01-16-2025, 04:32 PM)enkei Wrote:  
(01-12-2025, 06:54 PM)Flowrider Wrote:  Thanks @enkei and @meamoantonio. If you have a goal(s) you want to achieve this year, I hope they've got off to a positive start. Smile

Not really. Since just after Xmas, I've been staying 99% of the time at my parents' helping dad care for my increasingly demented mum. Aiming to move her to a care home soon, then I can take a rest.

Life, eh?
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#9
(01-12-2025, 06:54 PM)Flowrider Wrote:  Thanks @enkei and @meamoantonio. If you have a goal(s) you want to achieve this year, I hope they've got off to a positive start. Smile

I have a new work now which require me to report in at around 8am in the morning, because of this, I have shifted my training time to 4am in the morning and I feel like Kobe Bryant for some reason haha
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#10
@enkei ....know the feeling. My Mum has to be hoisted to the toilet, bed etc as can't walk anymore. Dementia has hit home big time...
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(01-28-2025, 06:49 PM)Flowrider Wrote:  @enkei ....know the feeling. My Mum has to be hoisted to the toilet, bed etc as can't walk anymore. Dementia has hit home big time...

@Flowrider Ugh! Life can be difficult, to say the least. I think I handle it okay, but for my dad, it must be terrifying.
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#12
(01-16-2025, 04:32 PM)enkei Wrote:  
(01-12-2025, 06:54 PM)Flowrider Wrote:  Thanks @enkei and @meamoantonio. If you have a goal(s) you want to achieve this year, I hope they've got off to a positive start. Smile

Not really. Since just after Xmas, I've been staying 99% of the time at my parents' helping dad care for my increasingly demented mum. Aiming to move her to a care home soon, then I can take a rest.

Life, eh?

Praying for you my friend!
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#13
@enkei, I hope things improve for your family and that you get to ride or relax more. I try to talk to my 80-year-old dad (over the phone) as often as I can when I’m on the road. I’m enjoying my health and blessings while he’s at home, worried about all the dangers lurking out there that could catch me or the "torture" I give to my body.

People I meet on the road often ask me why I ride so far away from "home," and I always say that my body is capable, my heart hasn’t yet developed that fear of the unknown, and my dad’s good health affords me the luxury of exploring faraway lands.

So, please know that I ride for you and others who aren’t able to due to personal or family obligations. Hang in there, friend.

Currently, I am in the state of Assam which borders Bhutan, China, and Myanmar. I rode to a National Park and have been exploring the serene nature here. Attached is a picture of a Rhino that I saw on a "stroll".


(02-10-2025, 10:45 AM)meamoantonio Wrote:  
(01-16-2025, 04:32 PM)enkei Wrote:  
(01-12-2025, 06:54 PM)Flowrider Wrote:  Thanks @enkei and @meamoantonio. If you have a goal(s) you want to achieve this year, I hope they've got off to a positive start. Smile

Not really. Since just after Xmas, I've been staying 99% of the time at my parents' helping dad care for my increasingly demented mum. Aiming to move her to a care home soon, then I can take a rest.

Life, eh?

Praying for you my friend!


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#14
Thank you, @GirishH. Yes, things are much better with my family and I've been riding a lot more too!
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#15
Hurray! Glad to hear that things are better now and you are able to ride more..
(04-12-2025, 06:03 PM)enkei Wrote:  Thank you, @GirishH. Yes, things are much better with my family and I've been riding a lot more too!
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