Project Description
www.hellomainbeach.com
Home of Team FBR Cycling
Ride Details
Group Ride Details
FBR have 2 Rides
- Contact Steve Holmes 0415143522
- No Facebook
- FBR meeting point
- Hard Coffee
- About FBR
Both group rides start at Crema Espresso Tedder Ave Main Beach, heading south to the Burleigh car park then return North to the end of ‘The Spit’ & back to Hard Coffee
Single File riding areas:
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- Hedges Avenue heading south
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- The Esplanade Burleigh heading north
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- Footpath section between Kelly Ave Nth Burleigh & Hythe Street
Call signs are vital to safety and enjoyment. Fun first and foremost – watch these videos
Standard stuff
FBR adhere to ALL road rules, so under no circumstances should a rider ever roll through a red light, even if this splits the group
This is a genuine no drop group ride, so for what ever reason the responsibility falls on the breakaway group to be aware and slow or stop to ensure that the group comes back together as fast as practically possible ie a Red light split
Punctures we all stop
If any rider falls off what is the average pace, the back riders should shout out the message and then drop back to help wheel back up the affected rider, if this happens more than once then negotiate with the affected rider to “turn short” and rejoin the group at another point.
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The FBR Group Ride is not a business or organisation activity.
If you ride then you do so totally at your own risk and responsibility
FBR riders are not responsible for any liability to each other or other individual rider actions that result in any type of liability
If you choose to ride then you are responsible for your own actions, interactions and any resulting liabilities or insurance liability.
Accidents can happen, so do not ride if this is a problem to you.
Traffic can become very congested at times and you will need to adjust to this.
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Hi all it’s Steve here, why the need for a tow you might ask?
I am currently going through a 6 month Chemo cycle as part of a German Cancer trial that aims to give me a better shot at life and beat the cancer that has had a pretty good lick at tipping me off this wonderful place above terra-firma.
I have only recently been through a 10 hr operation at the wonderful Gold Coast University Hospital where 7 Surgeons lead by Harold Puhala performed what is called a “whipples Procedure” What is this you might ask ? (sounded like an ice cream when I first heard the term)
They removed 2/3rds of my “Stomach”, my “Duodenum”, my “Bile Duct” (where the cancer was positioned below the liver) my “Lymph Nodes” and the “Head of my Pancreas” and my “Gall Bladder” so not much left after that major re-plumbing job.
The operation was a success in removing the cancer but this is a very very rare cancer and the post op outlook is a 20% survival rate over 2 years, hence the reason that I am now on this trial. I am the very first participant in Australia and one of 300 hundred world wide., so crossing the fingers and everything else.
The trial is now in its third year, with Yr 1 on Rats and Mice in Hamburg, Yr2 was on Advanced Tumor Patients in Germany, and now Yr 3 the Australian decided to fund 50 participants (thats my turn)
How it began for me…
It all started on my bike in late October last year with what I thought was a stomach virus, I felt like vomiting and became very lethargic after the ride. After one week my bowel movements became very pale / white and my eyes were yellowish, so that is when I contacted the doctors. The Doctors were very fast acting with blood tests taken immediately and the results the next day confirming swollen liver markers. The next day I was in for ultra sound and Cat Scan.
I began to turn yellow… a classic liver problem sign – first in the eyes and then skin followed by massive skin itching.
One month from Symptoms to Surgery – December 8th 2016 major surgery. Looking back this was very time critical and I am grateful to the Gold Coast Health community for being so proactive and curative in their culture…but it didn’t end there…
Listen to your body – I was invincible until I wasn’t!
January 5th I suffered a near fatal aneurysm to my main hepatic artery where basically I nearly bleed out internally, and if it wasn’t for the very collected and fast actions of my wife Claire and the Ambulance recovery team, I would never have made it to the GCUH Emergency in time for a man called Tom Snow (interventionist Radiologist) who literally saved my life with minutes to spare.
I vomited up over half my blood in a matter of seconds in front of Tom and his team as they prepared for the emergency operation. I was certainly very lucky that I did this at the right time and the right place in front of a team of experts. Working at speed Tom had stop the blood loss and then terminate my artery. With the artery now terminated, I lost 30% of my blood supply to the liver.
I woke up 2 days later in ICU. For 2 days I was in and out of consciousness, after what seemed like a stint in a giant tumble dryer full of air and water bubbles, with nothing for me to grab hold of…a strange in-between place between life and death…Luck was on my shoulder big time!
Life is so fragile.
Everyone has done an amazing job at getting me back on my feet and now its my turn to do my bit.
I am upbeat about all this, and I out there to continue to do what I love and that is riding running and meeting great people, so this is not going to be any type of medically depressed riding…jump on and lets play…its a great networking opportunity on wheels covering the best coastal landscape by bike on the Gold Coast.
I do have it in my head that I am on somewhat of a mission and that is to develop my own “Tour de Whipples” type campaign…not really sure in what shape it will be, but it will be positive and it will be unique, so stay tuned
Cheers Steve
0415153522
www.ridegc.com
www.cycleevents.com
December 2016 post op week 2
February 2017
On my way to Chemo- got to get into the ride state, so listening to some healthy podcasts while my daughter Georgia does the driving…not sure what makes me sicker, the Chemo or her driving?
My weekly 4 hr Chemo filling station at Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital
Almost a runner again February 2017
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