Western NSW Cycling: Recent Episodes
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In May 2026 the Bathurst District Historical Society hosted a Bathurst Autumn Colours Heritage Festival Event called Fashioning the Past: Memories of California Fashions. The event involved a tour of the old factory on the Blayney Road which has been home to a variety of manufacturing businesses over the decades, including the notable clothing company California Fashions. During this tour, historians from the Bathurst District Historical Society uncovered the site’s rich history and shared insights and stories from former employees of the fashion manufacturer. Visitors will also enjoy a display of garments produced by California Fashions during the 1950s and 1960s, offering a nostalgic glimpse into the company’s contribution to Bathurst’s industrial heritage.
THIS PART 2 Podcast – Following on from Part1, this Mt Panorama story is of the many championships & major cycling events held at Mt Panorama in the 21st century, including a number of State Championships and NRS Event, leading up to the more recent International UCI World Series qualifying events.
History of the Bicycle at Mt Panorama Bathurst:- This two-part Podcast looks at the history of Cycling on Mt Panorama Bathurst. From the first events in the 1930s through to the inaugural On-line virtual Tour of Australia which featured a 2-lap stage of the Mt Panorama during the covid19 Pandamic. Chair of the CNSW Heritage Commission Mark Windsor’s interviews include - Martin Whiteley, Jim Burke, Kerry Hoole, Jeff Rice, Ted Green, Klayten Smith, Ewen Gellie, Damien Bennett, Ben Kersten, Mark Renshaw, Toireasa Gallagher, Graham Seers, Phil Ayres, Gary Rush, Erwin Vervecken, Kurt Fearnley
This is Part 1 of two podcasts on the extensive history of bicycle racing on the famous Mt Panorama motor racing circuit.
Part 1 looks at the birth & construction of Mt Panorama and its forerunner the historic Vale Circuit, explaining that the bicycle was involved in the initial development of the famous Bathurst motor racing circuit; even creating & contributing to the sporting and racing culture in the city to establish the desire to build the racing venue.
A series of interviews looks at both the NSWCU and the League of Wheelman’s involvement. But then how a schoolboy from Sydney broke down the barriers to establish an annual cycling promotion, which fully used the Mt Panorama Circuit and Pit Complex and would lead to the first National Mountain Bike Championship.
Part 1 starts with the history of the 1930’s at Vale Road and continues to the early 1990s at Mt Panorama but touches on the drama of the Covid 19 Pandemic and the important cycling activity on Mt Panorama in the 2020’s. Check out Part 2 for the important cycling events from the 1990’s to the 2020s.
It is 3am on Saturday 7 December 2024 and I am standing in the rain for this interview.
We are catching up with promising local triathlete Angus Argent-Smith at the front gates of Scots All Saints College Senior School Bathurst at the start of his huge bike ride to raise funds for the Isolated Children’s Parents’ Association (ICPA)
Gus will be riding 365km to his hometown of Rankins Springs and sadly in all started in a storm with thunder and lightning..
Triathlon News: 10minutes with Kath Stutsel
If you are thinking about trying to do a triathlon one day, listen to Bathurst’s Kath Stutsel’s story who I am sure will convince you to make the plunge and “Try a Tri”. Doing her first triathlon less than a decade ago when another event she was training for was cancelled, Kath has now raced major triathlon events all over the world - From the legendary Escape from Alcatraz to Challenge Roth. This Interview is part of a series on Key Officials in the Bathurst Wallabies Triathlon Club in the lead up to the 2024/25 Season.
Leone Roach (Eddy) goes to the 1970 World Cycling Championships.
Featuring Mark Windsor, Leone Eddy, Tom Maloney.
Set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, this is the remarkable story of a schoolgirl’s journey to the top of World Cycling from the track in Tamworth in Country NSW.
At 15 years old Leone Roach stunned everyone when she had a successful hour record attempt in Melbourne in Jan 1969. This was followed by further hour promotions in Tasmania and a successful attempt on England’s Val Rushworth’s Hour Paced record at Melbourne Olympic Velodrome in late 1969.
Australian Cyclist Boss, event promoter & official Bill Long then organising Leone’s attendance at the 1970 World Cycling Championships in Leicester UK, with the people and cycling community of Tamworth getting behind Leone's (the Ponytail Express) bid for a World title.
This Podcast is part of the NSW Cycling Club Series by the CNSW Heritage Commission.
The Harlequin Wheelmen Club was formed in January 1982 with links to the Bathurst NSW League of Wheelman Cycle club which had been functioning for almost a century, established in 1893 by one of Australia great early Pro Riders on the Penny Farthings, Mr George Wibird.
The Harlequin club founded by David Roggiero when other Pro League cycle clubs across NSW including Bathurst CC were moving across to the NSW Cyclist Union (The Amateurs) who were winning the battle for control of the sport in Australia. The Harlequin Wheelman* Cycling Club becoming a refuge for the homeless Pro riders while the integration of the sport was occurring in the 1980s & 90s in Australia. This is the David Roggiero and Harlequin Wheelmen Club story which is based in Sydney North and affiliated with Auscycling. In recent times the club has been the state's top performer at the Cycling Age National Championships.
(*Note "Wheelman" is a 19th century historic cycling term referring to cyclists that have entered events with a cash prize).
Remembering Uncle John Windsor.. (08/01/1944 - 06/02/2019)
This is a 1-minute clip from an interview with John Windsor on his first race car from his rally cross days at Catalina Park at Katoomba and Towac Park at Orange (which for a period he was president of the club).
In 1903 Promoter Hugh D McIntosh hosted a 1mile handicap at the SCG with world record prizemoney and around 60,000 spectators. Top international cyclists (including Major Taylor) would come to Australia for the event which was won in 1903 by American N C Hooper who had been allocated a very generous 75yds by organisers.
While the event created plenty of headlines and drama it would be only contested a handful of times till legendary Aussie promotor John Scott established the event on Sydney’s Camperdown Velodrome in the 1970s and 80s.
This podcast looks at John’s Scott’s life as a cyclist and sports promoter and how he ensured that the Sydney Thousand would be long remembered as one of Australia’s greatest Cycling Promotions.
The Podcast features Audio from John Scott, Greg Scott, Geoff Scott, Robert Wallis, Alex Fulcher and Heritage Committee Chair Mark Windsor
The last time an Australian won the legendary Race Across America (or RAAM) was around a quarter of a century ago, however in 2022 Kiwi Born Aussie Allan Jefferson put his name in the history book when he defeated Svata Bozak and Swiss super star Nicole Reist in the 5000km race across the United States.
In this short 14min interview we catch up with Team Jefferson support crew member Gary Hamer of the Bathurst Cycling Club for an insight into what is often considered the toughest cycling race in the world.
"InForm TMX Make" rider Luke Tuckwell talks of his 2022 Euro Cycling Trip:
Great to catch up with Bathurst Cycling Club member Luke Tuckwell (who riders for InForm TMX Make) on his recent trip to Europe to race for Team Bike Terenzi in Italy and for the AusCycling Junior team across Europe.
After attending the recent Auscycling Webinar on Developing Cyclists Pathways, it was interesting to listen to Luke, as it emphasized the stress on aspiring young full time Australia Cyclists in Europe, faced with the latest trends by Pro-Cycling to get younger cyclists into the Pro Peloton.
The interview does stress the importance of the AusCycling junior development program and the role "InForm TMX Make" is playing in the development of young Aussie Cyclists.
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.
Things have changed a lot in Australia in half a century - Here is a rare 3 minute bit of audio of the Windsor family sitting around the table singing. I am amazed a our heavy Aussie Accent..
Mark explains how the bicycle shop he now takes over with his wife Kristina, is where he had his first job.
Mark and Kristina Renshaw have big plans for cycling in Bathurst and NSW’s Central West. In the past Mark has advised on the Bathurst Bike Park Venue, while this year, he designed the new courses for the Bathurst round of the UCI Grand Fondo World Series. However on the 8th of May 2020, Kristina and Mark will open the doors of Renshaw’s Pedal Project to formally start a new chapter in the couple’s life after more than a decade on Cycling International Pro Tour.
This is part of an interview with 10 time Tour de France starter Mark Renshaw on the announcement that he and wife Kristina will be opening a cycling store in Bathurst
This podcast was released in 2015 for the Bathurst Cycling Club Anzac Day Memorial to 1914/15 Bathurst Cycling Champion H.G. Honeyman. Former UCI Contract rider Blair Windsor joins us for a discussion on members of the local cycling community that made the supreme sacrifice for their country. Specifically R.G. Honeyman who served in the amazing 7th Light Horse Regiment and would be sent into the action in Egypt. RG Honeyman lost his life and was buried in the International ZagaZig Cemetery, (Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery).
Since 2014 world war veterans who were part of the local cycling community have been honoured by the Bathurst Cycling Club at the Anzac Day Trophy Race, with the race named after them. Although in 2020 the Coronavirus has stopped cycling across the world, the Bathurst Cycling Club Memorial will still continue this Anzac Day with Mary Phillips Robertson of the Royal Army Medical Corps to be honoured. This Podcast will take the place of the memorial ceremony which normally takes place at the Bathurst Cycling Club House before the Anzac Race..
CNSW Heritage Commission Podcast No 4 – “Alex Fulcher OAM MBE” Interview Part 1
The second of our NSW Legends Interviews is with Alex Fulcher. CNSW Heritage Commission Chairman interviews Fulcher on his long rein as NSW President and his State and National Coaching Success; also his excellent cycling career with the League of Wheelman.
Podcast includes – 1961 Goulburn to Sydney, 1963 Mercury Tour of Tasmania, 1978 & 1982 Com Games, Tour of the West, 84 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Podcast - Opening Run for the 1896 NSWCU Road Cycling season (and the end of Zimmerman amazing 1895/96 Summer Track Season).
CNSW Heritage Commission recently received an inquiry on a NSW Cyclist Union Trophy that has been handed down through the Daley Family for over 120years.
The Trophy was for the Opening Event of the 1896 Road season, (and obviously the closing event of the 1895-96 Track Season). This trophy is very historically significate as this is one of the most important times of Australian Cycling. In the summer of 1895-96 the world's best cyclists came to Australia, and as a consequence cycling became more than a pastime but a huge business down under, with public interest rivalling any of the high profile sports in Australia at that time.
Zimmerman & Martin (USA), Harris (England), Porta (Italy), Pither & Boyd (NZ) some of the internationals that gave cycling in Australia worldwide credibility. (It should be noted it took weeks for these great athletes to sail to Australia).
Yet ironically this trophy is for an event with a social and participation focus, reminding us that cycling is a very diverse activity and not simply the domain of the fastest & strongest. This Trophy also symbolises the difference between the Union (Amateurs) and the League (Pro’s) and the difficulty we have to establishing Australian Cycling History with these two Administration bodies co-existing for around a century.
For the record - J A Daley defeated Mr J B Holdsworth to win this amazing trophy, and we should take the time to recognised Mr Holdsworth’s remarkable career as an Cycling Administrator in NSW. I am told Holdsworth is the first life member of CNSW spending decades in NSW Cycling Management Positions.
In Podcast 1 we discuss the Trophy, yet we plan to release a second podcast to further discuss the cycling events in Sydney in March 1896 when the trophy is stated as being awarded.
NSW Cycling Club Premierships Podcast (“Celebrating 90 Years of Team Time Trial”)
By CNSW Heritage Commission.
More recently referred to as the Cycling NSW Team Time Trial Championships, these titles where first held in 1902 and continue to be one of the sports biggest promotions today.
In 2018 Cycling NSW will celebrate 90years of using the Teams Time Trial format to find the champion club of NSW, with both the Pros & Amateurs swapping to a Time Trial in 1928 from a Mass Start Points Score Format.
Australian Road Cycling Representative Colin Wilkinson tells us about the 1958 Commonwealth Games and gives us an insight into Amateur Sport. But when he tell us about his nephew Justin JKS Savage, a modern day Professional Gamer in the USA we see the massive changes in elite sport in the last 70years.
Colin Wilkinson – St George Cycling Club, 1958 Commonwealth Games - Cardiff Wales.
Justin JKS Savage - Australian professional Counter-Strike Global Offensive player
Ray Godkin has been recognised by Cycling Australia in the Hall of Fame for his contributions to cycling for more than 30 years. This Podcast talks to Ray of his own cycling career and then his journey to one of the world’s great cycling administrators.
Ray Godkin - NSW Cycling Federation President, Australian Cycling Federation President, President of the Oceania Cycling Confederation, Vice President UCI ….
Today we catch up with Tim Guy as he flys out of Australia to meet up with his UCI Continental Team Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum ahead of a 3 day tour in Japan. Tim talk about fellow NSW / ACT rider Ben Hill and his inspirational story to return to the race after a terrible fall in China.
This Podcast is on the Waratah Masters Cycling Club’s Erik Mather Cup, and features NSW cycling legend Barry Robins. Current club president Ian Jackson talks about both Eric Mather (1966 -2011) and Barry Robins (1934-2018) and the Club which was formed in 1994 to carry on the traditions of cycle racing at Homebush Bay.
UCI European Continental Team Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum has an Aussie Connection..
NSW cyclist Tim Guy of Orange (who lives in Albury & is a former Bathurst Cycling Club Member) has ensured his place in the new Slovenian continental team Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum by becoming one of the sponsors.
Guy switched hats from a Bike Rider in the team to an Australia Company (Head Crack) Co-owner to become involve in the initial negotiations for the formation of the UCI Registered continental team.
The following Podcast takes up the story.
The Clarence Street Cyclery Cup continues the great tradition of Aussie Track Wheelrace carnivals.
In July 1883 at the Exchange Hotel in Sydney, the Sydney Bicycle Club called a meeting to consider the forming of the NSW Cyclist Union. Prominent Sydney BC long distance cyclist Mr J Copland (a former Surry Bicycle Club member) was Chairman and large group of over 100 cycling enthusiasts who elected Mr James Martin President and Mr H. McRae as Honorary Secretary to draft a constitution to be considered at the next meeting when officially the NSWCU was formed. This Podcast looks at the forming of the NSWCU and features the current CNSW chairman Peter Beaumont.
In 1983 Craig Milton won the first Clarence St Cyclery Cup listen to Mark & Blair of the CyclingNSW Heritige Commission tell his story and each of the winners over the last 35 years in the lead up to the 2016/17 event