Hall of Fame

Gillian Duncan's mountain bike career began in 2000 when she joined the Southside Rats club as secretary, treasurer, and race organizer.

In 2004, she was the Queensland State representative of Mountain Bike Australia before she became the first elected president of the organisation in 2006, a role she held for three years.

Gillian was involved at all levels for Mountain Bike in Australia from organising races, coaching courses, and also writing the initial club and national commissaire policy.

Lionel Cox joined the Marrickville Cycling Club as a 15-year-old, but raced without any success and had so many falls that his mother insisted that he give the sport away.

She allowed him to resume again two years later, giving him a new bike for his 17th birthday.

On his new bike, Cox won every race he contested as a junior, including the state junior sprint title.

Mike Victor’s story is one of a lifelong commitment to cycling and a commitment to helping others pursue their dreams.

He started this as the junior delegate, to the Queensland Amateur Cycling Association, from 1957 to 1959.

Many people’s contribution to cycling goes way beyond the results page.

On the bike she was a world-class athlete.

The 1980s were a breakthrough period in women’s cycling.

In 1984, at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, women's racing was first added to the cycling program via a road race.

For track cycling, that introduction would come four years later at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Cycling was playing catch up and it was group of pioneers who were leading the charge.

For Australian women, that push was led by Queensland's Liz Hepple, a member of the University of Queensland Cycling Club.

The 1914 Tour de France was a significant step in the history of Australian cycling.

The Tour, in its 12th edition, was already cycling’s premier race worldwide and would be the last edition before the beginning of World War I.

Don Kirkham and Iddo “Snowy” Munro, along with four other Australians, travelled by ship for seven weeks, from Melbourne to Toulon, in the south of France, to race their bikes in the hope of a Tour start.

Even before creating history by riding alongside Don Kirkham as the first Australians to race the Tour de France in 1914, Iddo "Snowy" Munro had already established himself as a record breaker.

In the early days of Australian cycling, the iconic Melbourne to Warrnambool was often ridden the other way, Warrnambool to Melbourne.

Riding on rough roads, often gravel, and with no gears, the big challenge was how would riders measure up against the train that would leave Warrnambool when the top riders did.

It was 1978 when a young Steve Cassap first laid eyes on a BMX bike. A keen motorcross rider, he and his mates soon fell in love with BMX bikes, making jumps in back yards and parking lots, simply hanging out and having fun. Steve took up racing when the first BMX tracks appeared in Victoria, but it wasn’t on the track that got him attention - instead, it was what he was doing off the track that did. 

Tracey Kosikowski began racing in 1979 and competed in the earliest State and National Titles, including the first Unofficial National Titles - called the Big Plate Series. Tracey pioneered junior female racing, and quickly caught the attention of sponsors, riding for SE racing and GT Bicycles. Although she almost always ran her career number of 84 on the plate - it was Number 1’s that she quickly began piling up in the trophy room at home. 

In terms of Champions, Western Australia has produced some of the most successful BMX racers in Australia. BMX may have caught on a little later than the eastern states, but this didn’t stop many Western Australian’s invading the podium at National Titles in the early 80’s.