Bike it to Ballidu Gravel

Event Type |

Family

Date & Time

  • 21 September, 2024
  • 07:00 AM

Location

  • Shire of Wongan-Ballidu
Event Details:

Since 1999, Bike it to Ballidu has been a beloved bike event that welcomes everyone in the Wongan Hills area.

2023 saw the event move to gravel for the first time – it was a smash with more than 330 local and Statewide riders taking on courses over 12km, 30km, 85km and 155km.

Bike it to Ballidu Gravel will be back bigger and better in 2024 in the hidden gem of epic landscapes that is the Shire of Wongan-Ballidu – just two hours from Perth.

Get among the Shire’s 1000km diverse gravel roads and tracks set among the rolling hills, vast canola fields, sparkling lakes, farmer’s paths, salt plains, wildflower sanctuaries, forested growths, Mid-West scrub.

 

Registrations to the 2024 Bike It To Ballidu Gravel will be announced shortly.

Event date: 21st September 2024

Watch this space!

Contact Information
  • Event Organiser: WestCycle

Tim Roach

Elected Director | Off Road

Tim has been in senior leadership and strategic development roles for more than twenty years. He is currently Director of Executive Education in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University and is a past Assistant Commissioner and General Manager in the public service. He is an Accountant (FCPA) and sits on the Divisional Council of CPA Australia.

Tim has been involved in racing mountain bikes, BMX and triathlon for many years, both as a father of two children who race and as a past and current bike racer. Tim is the current over-50 State Champion in downhill mountain biking. He is also a very regular and enthusiastic transport cyclist; frequently seen in a suit and tie riding to meetings in the city on a mountain bike.

Denise Sullivan

Chair | Governance & Risk Committee

Denise Sullivan has a career spanning over twenty years in senior management and executive roles in the state public and not-for-profit health sectors.

In her usual role of Director Chronic Disease Prevention with the Western Australian Department of Health, she leads the development of state chronic disease and injury prevention policy and planning frameworks and contributes to the shaping of the national preventive health policy agenda.

Her professional interests cover many aspects of chronic disease and injury prevention encompassing health communications, health promotion and research, public policy on health and workforce planning and development.

She has a particular interest in furthering collaborations with other sectors with a mutual interest in promoting a more active and healthier WA community, and creating and sustaining environments that support this. Denise is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Leadership WA Signature Program, and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian College of Health Service Managers.

Denise is a recreational cyclist and recent convert to mountain biking (although trainer wheels still on!).