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Fathers Day Criteriums & Steel Bikes Event on Sunday 6th September 2026

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It was another impressive turnout for the crits today with 65 riders entered across grades A through E with B grade attracting the largest field with 21 riders.

Conditions were on the coolish side with a light Westerly breeze and short periods of misty drizzle but nothing heavy enough to affect the racing with Chooka releasing the bunches just after 9am.

For this years event riding a steel bikes wasn’t a requirement to get a place with the focus more on judging post race although there were a number of riders prepared to race their steel steads with the standout being Daryl Suter who managed to place 3rd in a stacked B grade field.

Unfortunately there was no electronic timing available for this Sundays racing due to the unavailability of Bruce and Faye as a result of recovering from a medical procedure so the placings were manually judged.

Following racing Albert Rain ran the post race proceedings in Tim’s absence reminding the assembled audience that the tradition on Fathers Day is to donate the days entry fees to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. Lastly the judging of the steel bikes was also ran at the conclusion of the podium presentations.

Big thanks to the days volunteers and officials (Albert Rain, Chooka, John McKinnon, Paul Willson, Dave Halliday and Dave Brown) and congrats to the winners and place getters.

 

A Grade (16)
1st – Tom Williams
2nd – James Stevens
3rd – Clarke Livingston

 

B Grade (21)
1st – Andrew Hutchinson
2nd – Colin Blackley

3rd – Daryl Suter

 

C Grade (14)
1st – Alvin Dumaros
2nd – David Malady

3rd – Jamie Sharp

 

D Grade ( 8 )
1st – Ken Bone
2nd – Kelly Dalton

3rd – James Stewart

 

 

E Grade (4)
1st – Sebastian Phoenix
2nd – Henryk Herbec

3rd – Shayne Dwyer

Collin Morris’s pick of the days steel bikes with Daryl Suter (left), Dave O’Dwyer (background) and Chooka (right)
Steel bikes up for judging

 

Crowds gather at the start of the preso’s and inspecting the steel bikes