PHOTO: Twenty-six vintage bike riders set off from Baradine on the 2024 Shearers Ride.
by LIZ CUTTS
A keen group of vintage bike riders have retraced the tracks taken by the cycling shearers of the early 1900’s.
For a few days each year the Shearer’s Ride invokes a bygone era when collectors of old bicycles gather to recapture the golden age of Australia’s bike riding shearers when they pedalled from shed to shed across some harsh and unforgiving terrain.
Twenty-six . . .
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