Hi, I’m Richard—The Eternal Cyclist, sharing Spokes of Wisdom.
now I’m helping In Serbia, bit off the bike.!
where I store my bike between my planed seasons trips.
so much changed after COVID 19 BS. world travel not as easy as before, if not wars it’s politics if not that it’s new world prices & regulation.
air travel these days not so easy or cheap, for person on a fixed income budget.
A bit about me!
After decades on the road & countless kilometers, I’ve evolved.
I no longer ride to conquer—I ride to be present.
For the past decade, I’ve lived from my AZUB recumbent Bike.
No fixed plans. No final destination.
Just movement—a meditation in motion.
Guided by the Buddhist middle path & Japanese wabi-sabi and wa—the beauty of enough, and harmony with the flow—this is a nomadic lifestyle.
Not homeless—my bike is my home.
A hammock is my bed. A stove for meals. Just a few necessary things.
Most days, I get what’s needed along the way.
Most nights, I camp wild.
Sometimes, I ride with others—for a moment, a mile, or more.
I share unfiltered, unedited, unstaged videos—
real roads, real moments, real life as it unfolds.
Just the joy of riding through a changing world,
one breath, one pedal stroke at a time.
ཨོཾ་སྟག་རྒན་ནང་པའི་ཧཱུྃ།
Om stag rgan nang pa’i hum
(The Old Tiger Buddhist Roars Within)
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welcome to the eternal cyclist okay I’m here in the garage with a bicycle we’ve parked it here for a couple days doing a little bit of adjusting a little bit of work to it here and there not really much that needs to be done basically just clean up what I’m storing in it what I’m packing leave some stuff behind and all that so I’m kind of been doing that but I’ve been preoccupied with stuff as I’ve had some new friends come up now I have a new little kitten the tuna has a baby kitten so we’re kind of dealing with the baby kitten seeing how that goes and making sure it’s getting fed right and everything else it’s couple week period where the transformation is so I’m going to hang around here and help with the transition of the kitten to getting it weaned off mama stuff onto real food so it’s a nice healthy healthy kitten for around here cuz I like cats well besides adjusting the bike there were a few things we needed to get done u Moran put a video out on it uh we rearranged his car he was looking at getting a van for doing some travel around Europe and everything else but because they changed the policies on him uh Serbian he just doesn’t get to become a Serbian citizen like they told him before he was able in 3 years to do all his stuff and just easily become a Serbian citizen but now they changed it back to 5 years and some other little complications so we’re working on that and doing that stuff stay out of the sun so while I’m here I’m helping him with the yard work the grass has come out pretty good but this summer is already being over 30 plus seas every day so it’s kind of drying out the grass and doing some other stuff so we need to help and teach him how to work a little bit better with that have to do a little watering at night time as far as this part of the garden went uh again we got to work on that again a bit more next season uh this area over here I’m going to change to the front camera this area over here we kind of got growing but we do need to take out a bit more grass we planted new grass along the outer edges that’s going okay but we need to take the grass out actually in this area here and then put a perimeter around it so it’ll kind of be easier to mow and easier to keep the grass out of the area where we want to grow stuff so I got to look into that put a perimeter thing around this so I got to think what I want to do here for helping them out to make sure it’s more easy for planting vegetables and having a proper little garden area so probably going to put brick like it’s there but bury it partway down come around go around and put that in like we did above i’ll show you up there as you can see the grass is growing here but it’s a little thin we went with a shade grass but it’s getting a lot more sun than I thought it would so I need to put some more seed and that but can’t do that till springtime because of the heat yeah the plants are growing quite nicely the tree has come along uh we’re taking out the path here because it just doesn’t make any sense it just keeps growing too much weed and everything else so we’ve decided to take this path out and we’ll also remove the path down here and take that out in the next couple days and as you see just way too much weed growing in it so we can’t have that so we’re going to let it back to grass again uh this part the shed is right now with it being 30° outside it’s probably 40 in here uh we really don’t have the adequate ventilation done in it yet for that for summertime but for winter time it was okay for our needs so we’ll adjust this again come fall for the setup of fall stuff but it’s one step at a time as you see we’ve had a lot of work to do i’ve just been supposed to be also making three videos in the last couple of days the three videos are one is my 10 years uh history with the uh recumbent bike uh the reason I’m not doing it is I don’t like these structured videos i don’t like these things that aren’t prompt that aren’t natural that aren’t just kind of with the stuff so with that one I’ve got to do too much more planning things putting things in place scripts and everything else i did work on it for about a week and then I just couldn’t feel it same I did uh my new background my new display that came out nicely but among the time of doing that I kind of felt it’s getting a little too structured but then I went back to going with the flow of nature the Buddhist way and found something that I like and I can deal with for my so-called logo so as I just said we’re taking up the path here so this path is coming up i’ll be planting grass i’ve had to take all the rock out going to put some brick stuff along here to raise this up and have a stepway here cuz that’ll be all grass down there and grass up underneath there just easier to deal with and handle and the new walkway is coming up here as you can see and we put down the special uh tarp finally found a place that had it here in Serbia normally in America I would just found it at any Home Depot or anything like that but we can put the tarp down here and get the proper stepping stools in place and put the rock in place here our compost area is growing really nicely this season we’ll have to take it all out in the springtime so I’ll have to do some adjusting here when I come back in the springtime to make something that open and closes probably move this fence here back to closing this off make it enter here now that we’ve changed this to the Buddha room this is going to change into our Buddha room uh we’re going to clean it up a little bit more it’s got the natural colors kind of put a ceiling on it so it keeps in some heat then the insulation on the floor and then proper flooring in here so this can come uh Moran or later if I retire Buddhist practice room when I come so keeping with my structure of I like my Buddhism a little bit of practice nature normally I’m just into the moving meditation but sometimes I do like to do a prayer room and stuff like that our barrels for making the juice or we should say compost juice is working out nicely we’ve redid some of the plumbing to all have these bent properly the dog house is probably going to have to be removed the end of the summer season but not now it’ll first be the bike riding everything and then when I come back in the fall time before heading to Asia for the season I’ll come back and help with that one they’ve been growing good vegetables this season it keeps them from having to go to the store the tomatoes are growing nicely the other vegetables uh they’re getting plenty of greens for if you see in any of the meals I’ve posted for eating that we’re getting plenty of greens for eating for meals and stuff they eat a lot of vegetables so this helps reduce the cost of things and keeps everything down for a better budget so Moran can keep more to his YouTube stuff uh here you’ll see I changed piping we’re working on that still working on the gutter system a little bit but that’ll come around the back end has come nicely now with what’s here and we’ve got a nice uh garden somewhat stuff growing here we’ll clean this up later as time goes a little bit more but over here I’m looking at putting uh brick along here then we’ll put clean this up and do like we did there the grass or the rock walkway here around so you can get around keeping it easy so when it’s rain days and stuff like that you keep yourself clean and then c cutting this off with the brick coming along here and brick going up that way to help give a border around the garden area to keep the grass from growing into it and help keep the weeds down so it grows better vegetables all in all that’s what I’ve been kind of doing and like I say I started to work on the videos but you know it’s not my thing to make those structured uh things with this B-roll and blah blah blah cinematic views and something like that my station or my channel is raw unedited uh just what you see is what you get uh just talking normal naturally sharing what life is about not some staged uh this and that put this in there put that in there okay at times I may put in a picture I may do this I may do that but overall like I say I’m not into staging this nor do I want my channel to be that way I mean I’ve talked to a lot of people a lot of people put effort for you need to you need to you need to no you don’t need to channel is sharing if you don’t like what I’m sharing you don’t have to watch the channel if you like what I’m sharing watch and subscribe that’s how it works uh so this is what I’m going to be doing i got about another week’s worth of work here in Serbia then after that I’m going to start riding a little bit south uh for the season go around a little bit of Serbia go down further maybe into Bulgaria and places like that and then loop up northwards and start my season headed north uh ending up at the end of the summer to the Azub 25 year anniversary thing the thing I was supposed to be making videos to talk about but like I say it’s not my thing so why am I going to do it i’m just going to make what I make and that’s that well hopefully you guys have liked this stuff and come on and join me for the adventure you know of the eternal cyclist when I get back to cycling I do have to take these breaks every once in a while to help friends and help things pay my way for when I store my bike and do other things at their house so got to pay our dues that’s how it works all right thanks like and subscribe if you like this crap to me stuff like this spending time with the cat spending time in the moment enjoying the little things in life is more important than those structured videos and other things i rather have fun here work on the things help friends out do things just enjoy life to the fullest live in the moment live what the life is having to bring to us and offer to us and make us have to do and especially with a new kitten it’s time for some fun and relaxation and a reminder what youth is like and what fun is like and all those good things i mean Jana teaches me those lessons but a kitten is more my speed a little more frisky a little more biting and a little more socialism so like I said if you like this kind of video that’s more natural that we will be going back to the biking leaving the cats alone and heading out of the house of Serbia here in about another week thanks for watching please subscribe