Team members
Blue team
Name: David Doherty
Nick name: Croc
Work Location: Thomastown Fire Station
Length of service: 25yrs in September
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Very active cyclist
Favourite ride: Riding with friends in general.
Why you are participating in this event: I believe this is a great way to get the prostate awareness message out. It’s a huge challenge for me personally and we have adopted a fantastic charity. Wouldn't it be great to see cancer eliminated altogether.
Name: Richard Grant
Nick name: Dick
Work Location: Windsor Fire Station D Platoon
Length of service: 32nd year
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Good ordinary Player
Favourite ride: Arthurs Seat, or anywhere on the Peninsula.
Why you are participating in this event: Closer to 60 than 50, I want a challenge that’s makes blokes think about their health, and fitness.
Name: Nick Beagley
Nick name: Beagz
Work Location: Somerton Fire Station
Length of service: 25 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Ride well for a coffee.
Favourite ride: Beach Road on a week day
Why you are participating in this event: Prostate awareness and personal challenge.
Name: Simon Hohmann
Nick name: Simo
Work location: Preston Fire Station B Platoon
Length of service: Approximately 22 years
Cycling abilities: Good on hills and a reliable team rider
Favorite ride: I prefer anything that involves a challenge
Why are you participating in this event: Three aspects...the cause, the camaraderie and the challenge.
Name: Peter Leahy
Nick Name: Easy
Work Location: Northcote fire station
Length of service: 21 years
Cycling abilities in five words or less: Try and give 100%
Favourite ride: Murray to Moyne
Why you are participating in this event: Because I want to help spread the word about prostate cancer and raise money for the EJ Whitten foundation
Name: Mark Lyons
Nick name: Marky Mark
Work Location: Operational Training - Burnley
Length of service: 22 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Triathlete (not pretty but gets the job done)
Favourite ride: Calder HWY up Mt Macedon
Why you are participating in this event: Combines an enormous challenge with contributing to a fantastic organisation in the Ted Whitten Foundation
Name: John Russell
Nick name: JR
Work Location: Community Education, Burnley
Length of service: 30 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: just a hack
Favourite ride: 13th Beach
Why you are participating in this event: I'm supporting due to the fact that I have an injury preventing me from riding
Name: Stephen Shipperlee
Nick name: Shipps
Work Location: Preston Fire Station
Length of service: 25 Years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Just off Training Wheels
Favourite ride: Baci Run with the boys
Why you are participating in this event: They begged me
Name: Norm Olsen
Nick name: Norm
Work Location: Eastern Hill Fire Station
Length of service: 22 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Recreational and commuting.
Favourite ride: Dandenong Creek Trail
Why you are participating in this event: Helping a good cause appeals to me, as does the challenge involved. I enjoy team activities and see this as an excellent vehicle for raising awareness of an important issue.
Red team
Name: Mark O’Connor
Nick name: MOCO
Work Location: Northern Zone Command, Thomastown
Length of service: 26 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Always striving to improve
Favourite ride: Whittlesea area and Beach Road
Name: Steve Moore
Nick name: Smiley
Work Location: Community Education, Burnley
Length of service: 26
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Just a battler
Favourite ride: Croydon to Yea
Why you are participating in this event: To raise the profile of the cause/charity and to achieve a personal challenge.
Name: Sam Bach
Nick name: Duck Bum (and variations), Squish, Lucky, and recently Jandle Boy
Work Location: Usually Eastern Hill
Length of service: Six Years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Rock gardens are no match.
Favourite ride: Craters of the Moon MTB Trail. Taupo NZ
Why you are participating in this event: It's a great cause, ill get to see how sleep deprivation eats away at Conan Daily (the perfect medium), I’ll have stories to tell my grand kids and I’ll spend a month learning Spanish
Why you are participating in this event: To realise 2 ½ years of planning, reduce the impact of prostate cancer on males and to raise valuable funds for a wonderful charity.
Name: Andrew Luedecke
Nick name: Louie
Work Location: Eastern Hill Fire Station
Length of service: 8.5 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: The pain is all cyclological
Favourite ride: Stockyards to Chainsaw Track at the You Yangs...fast flowing fun
Why you are participating in this event: I'm in to riding bikes, counting white lines, and saving prostates!
Name: Conan Daley
Nick name: 'No, I was not named after an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie...'
Work Location: Malvern Fire Station. No. 24
Length of service: 7 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Jack of all trades, race Road, Track and MTB, but master of none!
Favourite ride: Mt Hotham
Why you are participating in this event: Great cause, a combined team achievement, great opportunity to see our wide brown land by pedal power.
Name: Steve Axup
Nick name: AXE
Work Location: South Melbourne Fire Station, 38D
Length of service: 3 yrs
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: I push pedals around!
Favourite ride: The Mad Mouse ...ha ha..... The Champs Elysee in July ain't bad but just love Beach Rd
Why you are participating in this event: To push pedals around, around Australia!!! Seriously, quite simply to have an amazing experience, supporting a great cause!
Name: Paul Manning
Nick name: Manno
Work Location: Preston Fire Station
Length of service: 3 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: Fair weather rider
Favourite ride: Smiths Gully trails
Why you are participating in this event: Once in a lifetime opportunity
Name: Bill Weir
Nick name:
Work Location: Emergency Management, Eastern Hill
Length of service:
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Name: Lisa Blake
Nick name: Pilgrim
Work Location: South Melbourne Fire Station
Length of service: 3 years
Cycling abilities in 5 words or less: I'm a novice that enjoys
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Why you are participating in this event: I feel its a great opportunity to be part of a great challenge; a challenge for the riders and the support crew to achieve a mamoth task and to raise awareness. Also for the excitement of driving/riding around Australia