About Us
Blackburn Cycling Club does it differently. Our vision is to “Build a love of cycling with more people riding, racing, and watching.”
We will do this by:- Providing exceptional riding skills and development programs that inspire people to ride.
- Facilitate members to achieve excellence in cycling through exceptional junior development, training and pathways.
- Providing safe and challenging competition programs through facilitating development and operational excellence.
View our document library to find a wide range of information including club constitution, committee representation and more.
Our previous photo gallery is available - new photos are uploaded to our Facebook page.
Our Beginnings:The Blackburn Cycling Club is an Australian Road and Track Cycling Club first established in 1946 by George Robinson of Rob's Cycles in Blackburn. A track and clubhouse was established at the East Burwood reserve near the corner of Springvale Road and Burwood Highway.
Governance:The Blackburn Cycling Club is controlled by cycling's governing body in Australia, AusCycling. Under our constitution the office bearers of the club (President, Vice-president, Secretary, and Treasurer) are elected by the Members at the annual general meeting. These office bearers, together with other committee members, form the General Committee which represents the Members in running and managing the club.
Club meetings are held on a regular basis and are published in the events calendar.
Child Safety:
Blackburn Cycling Club is committed to child safety.
We want children to be safe, happy and empowered.
We are committed to the safety, participation and empowerment of all children.
We have zero tolerance of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be treated seriously and consistently with our Child Safeguarding Policy and procedures.
Blackburn Cycling Club is committed to preventing child abuse and identifying risks early, and removing and reducing these risks.
The Club takes a proactive approach to recruitment practices of volunteers in child related positions to reduce the risk of child abuse. This includes screening, reference checks, and requiring Working with Children Checks.
Blackburn Cycling Club is committed to regularly training and educating our committee members, coaches, commissaires, and volunteers on child abuse risks.
We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children, the cultural safety of children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, and to providing a safe environment for children with a disability.
The club operates under AusCycling's Child Safeguarding Policy which can be found in our document library.
Blackburn Cycling Clubs also has Child Safety Officers who can be contacted at childsafety@bbn.org.au.
Volunteers:Blackburn Cycling Club is dependent on our members to help organise and run races. We value our members and thank those who devote their time to allow others to participate in some of the most love cycling events on the yearly calendar.
All registered members (but excluding life members) are requested (and expected to) assist their Club with the running of the BBN hosted race events - either personally or by finding somebody else (for juniors this probably means 'a parent'). Each season we endeavour to get the race fixture and roster requirements completed early enough for members to be able to review and submit their events and position preferences. Each member is usually required to perform at least 2 duties during each season.
If we do not get volunteers for all positions by the stated cut-off date we have no choice but to assign members to the unfilled duty roster positions or not run the event.
We do not expect that members personally do the duty they volunteered (or assigned) to do but that they take the responsibility to see that the duty is fullfilled by either doing it personally or by finding somebody else. We would really like to see our BBN members ride each of our races and therefore encourage all to pursuade family, friends, or relatives to come out and help. Most people find it very rewarding and they will get a chance to see you race!