Fran Watson: From chronic fatigue to world champion watt bomb
Battered by chronic fatigue, Fran Watson took up riding in her late 40s and was soon turning pedals and winning medals the world over.
WestCycle Subscriber e-News: October
Latest happenings from the peak body for all forms of bike riding in Western Australia.
WestCycle Chair Debbie Millard: “MTB feeds my soul in a way that other forms of riding don’t.”
WestCycle Chair, Debbie Millard, is an Inspire ambassador for whom mountain biking is an essential activity that not only feeds her soul, but has even influenced where she lives…
Ballidu Gravel 2025 hits new highs
Riders and racers through the generations revel in Community Sport Event of the Year with numbers up 20% from 480 to 580 riders.
WestCycle Subscriber e-News: September
Latest happenings from the peak body for all forms of bike riding in Western Australia.
Dunn Aviation: Flying high for 60 years
Ballidu Gravel race sponsor Dunn Aviation has been crop dusting, spraying and aerial fire fighting from the skies above the Shire of Wongan-Ballidu and greater Wheatbelt for 60 years.
Ballidu readies for its biggest ever gravel jamboree: “…we’re on the map now for gravel tourism”
Mal Sutherland, the Ballidu Progress Group’s Bike it to Ballidu Gravel coordinator, can’t wait to share his Shire’s glorious gravel goodies.
WestCycle’s submission to the WA Parliamentary Inquiry into eRideables: The gist
WestCycle has made a written submission to the Parliament inquiry, plus attended a face-to-face interview at a hearing on 30 July 2025.
Pure gold! Riders revel in Avon Valley for 2025 Canola Classic
Mor than 550 riders signed up and most showed up to defy a wet forecast and revel in a mostly sunny morning on quiet roads in amongst the popping golden canola blooms of the Shire of York.
Wongan-Ballidu embraces new gravel haven status. “We’re lycra-friendly!”
“It’s just been a brilliant event for the community – it was going to die in the old road format and now we have something that pretty much the whole Shire is behind and which really puts our Shire on the map with bike riders and others.”
