Paperback, 200 pp, 120 illustrations; ISBN: 978-0-9871437-1-6
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Listen to interviews of Jim Fitzpatrick.
on Australian cycling history. Margaret Throsby's ABC Classic FM MIDDAY program, 6 May 2013; replayed 14 Oct 2016.
Trevor Chappell's ABC OVERNIGHTS program, 27 May 2013.
Jeff McLean, 88.9 WYNFM, Werribee Victoria, 26 July 2014.
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Bullfinch General Store, West Australian Goldfields, circa 1896.
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The island continent of Australia and the bicycle seem almost to have been made for one another. From 1893 the machine was adopted over the next two decades for more varied uses, and was routinely ridden over greater distances as part of daily rural life, than anywhere else on earth.
Explorers, gold-miners, trail-blazers, preachers, sheep-shearers and early film-makers covered amazing distances in the most challenging conditions, mounted on two wheels and powered only by human energy. |
Melbourne street, World War II, during petrol restrictions.
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Two Tasmanian shearers who worked the Victorian and New South Wales shearing circuits.
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A bicycle pad south of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, part of
a sytem dating from 1893 and in use until the 1903s, when this photo was taken.
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Cycling on George Street, Sydney, in 2013 ...
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... and circa 1900, both photos from same intersection.
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Australia, with only 23,000,000 people, is an international cycle racing powerhouse. The Speed Dome, Western Australia
Jim Fitzpatrick spoke at the outdoor Sydney Bicycle Film Festival before the screenings began, October, 2012.