Keith Dunstan, an old friend of Ron’s descrbed Ron as “the master touring cyclist. There was not a touring cyclist he did not touch. He was the driving force who brought back the bicycle to Melbourne, and the great bicycling boom that began in the early 1970s.”

Organiser of the Great Nullarbor Bike Ride along with Graham Bradshaw,

A founder and a Life Member of the Bicycle Institute of Victoria (later Bicycle Victoria and the Bicycle Network) Ron was born in 1934 and pedalled off in 2004

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