News from the 2021 Central West Track Open (which incorporated the 2021 NSW Country and Metro Junior Track Championships) hosted by the Orange and Bathurst Cycling clubs with help from sponsor’s @ClancyMotorsGroup @RenshawPedalProject @ CanobolasHotel

Hear local cycling officials along with NSW State Handicapper Robyn Sprouster and James Nguyen NSW’s Competitions & Events Manager.

The Cycling History of WOLLONGONG

From the first Wollongong Bicycle Club in 1889 to the World Championships in 2022

In 2022 the Wollongong region will host the UCI World Road Cycling Championships. This Podcast looks at the 140years of cycling leading up to the Illawarra Region crowning the world champion road cyclists in 2022.

The Podcast features Tour de France star Mark Renshaw along with Illawarra Club administrators Terry Wall and Garry Doughty; while local cyclists Lionel Covington, Danny O’Connor and Daniel Hennessy join New South Wales Cycling Federation life member Doug Holland to explain the regions unique and long cycling History.

Includes– the cycling venues of Bodes Oval, Mt Keira Road and Unanderra Velodrome along with a report on Wollongong’s first Road (1890) and Track Championships (1891).

The Birth of Australian Cycling New Era - 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 

The NSW Story behind the 1984 Olympics Team Pursuit Gold Medal.

Australia’s Gold Medal win in the 1984 Team Pursuit Los Angeles Olympics caught the attention & imagination of the people of Australia who would then proudly support our cyclists into the AIS program.

The win came at a time when aerodynamic technology was pulling the bicycle into strange new shapes and sports itself was becoming a business. This podcast investigates a group of NSW administrators and cyclists that played major roles in that Gold Medal win. It describes how their passion for the sport put a system in place to defeat the world biggest budget teams and the countries that believed they owned cycle racing.

Australia was acknowledged as a world cycling trailblazer in 1984 and this podcast looks at the Cycling NSW members behind that Gold Medal.     

Guests include – Ray Godkin, Alex Fulcher, Mark Fulcher, Geoff Scott, Kevin Nichols, Gary Sutton, Jock Bullen -- MARK WINDSOR (Cycling NSW Heritage Commission Chairman).

Kalinda Robinson in the 2021 National Junior Team

20years ago the Bathurst Cycling Club was regularly getting young club members in the Australian Junior Teams. However for over a decade now young Bathurst riders have been in the mix but sadly no national Junior Team jerseys since 2007 for the local juniors. However this year local track cyclists Kalinda Robinson and Tyler Puzicha have been both named in the Australian Junior Cycling Team.

This is an interview with Kalinda Robinson on the 27th April 2021 after the Australian Cycling Junior Camp where she became the first Bathurst Cycling member to be selected in the National Junior team for over a Decade..

Local NSW connection to 2020 Tour de France Winner Tadej Pogacar

In 2018 NSW riders Tim Guy (Orange, NSW) and Ben Hill (Muswellbrook, NSW) rode with 2020 Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar in the Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum Team. Tim Guy was more than just a rider in the team as he assisted in the creation of the team and actually sponsored it through his Headcrack Company which raises awareness of Anxiety and Depression.

This podcast uses interviews from the last 4 years on the establishment of the Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum / Headcrack team and the development of the superstar Tadej Pogacar, with a focus on the NSW, Australian Connect.

It is a longer podcast than normal, as there are many twists to this story with references to the development pathways for elite young cyclists in Australia & Slovenia, the pressure of National Representation as a junior and links to other champions such as Rohan Dennis and Mark Renshaw.

This Podcast will also look into the growing problem of Anxiety and Depression.

Related Links -

Rohan Dennis helps Tim Guy with a Sports Lesson at a Country NSW High School - https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9gj78-e15a87 

Local NSW connection to 2020 Tour de France Winner Tadej Pogacar

In 2018 NSW riders Tim Guy (Orange, NSW) and Ben Hill (Muswellbrook, NSW) rode with 2020 Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar in the Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum Team. Tim Guy was more than just a rider in the team as he assisted in the creation of the team and actually sponsored it through his Headcrack Company which raises awareness of Anxiety and Depression.

This podcast uses interviews from the last 4 years on the establishment of the Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum / Headcrack team and the development of the superstar Tadej Pogacar, with a focus on the NSW, Australian Connect.

It is a longer podcast than normal, as there are many twists to this story with references to the development pathways for elite young cyclists in Australia & Slovenia, the pressure of National Representation as a junior and links to other champions such as Rohan Dennis and Mark Renshaw.

This Podcast will also look into the growing problem of Anxiety and Depression.

Related Links -

Rohan Dennis helps Tim Guy with a Sports Lesson at a Country NSW High School - https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9gj78-e15a87 

Tim Guy & Ben Hill from NSW Australia not only rode in the Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum (Headcrack) Team with Tadej Pogacar in 2018 - But Tim Guy was part of the creation of the team that would provide the stepping stone for the Slovenian Champion into the World Tour.... This is a segment from the full podcast which will be released later in the week.

It is July 2020 - World Champion Rohan Dennis was supposed to be racing for gold at the Tokyo Olympics with everyone cheering him on back home in Australia. But Covid19 has turned the world upside down, postponing the Games and now Rohan Dennis is sending support back to a School in Country NSW Australia, as the students test themselves on the bike.

Another Pro Cyclist Tim Guy who is supposed to be with his cycling team in Slovenia, but stranded in Australia due to the virus, is the educator behind the Sports Technology subject at Cowra High School. Check out the details here..

With Cycling Australia including Bathurst’s Mt Panorama in its inaugural On-line virtual Tour of Australia, this podcast looks at the history of the bicycles on the famous motor racing circuit.

The first Bicycle Event on Mt Panorama was in 1939 which was followed by 40years of very little till Martin Whiteley, a 17yr old school boy convinced the Authorities to give permission to use Mt Panorama for a 3 day cycling event.

That event opened up Mt Panorama as a state, then national and then International cycling venue. It also had a lot to do with the birth of Mountain Bikes in Australia. This podcast then discusses a major junior event in the 1990s ahead of numerous CNSW state Championships and even a NRS round in the Mt Panorama precinct. It then looks a round of the UCI Grand Fondo World Series establishing itself in Bathurst using the famous motor racing circuit.

Former Bathurst Cycling Club Champion and hardworking official Ryan O'Donnell is moving from Bathurst, the club wishing him and his family all the best for the future and thanking him for his contribution to Cycling in the region.