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ABOUT US
Cycletrek is a unique bike shop catering mainly for mountain bikes. It is situated in a bush setting where customers can test ride a bike they are interested in purchasing, or their own bike after Barrie has repaired it, on the 8 plus kilometres of singletrack.

This track is highly regarded by the many Western Australian riders who have competed in the annual WA Mountain Bike Association state round held here for the last 4 yeas. It is a track built for mountain bikers by a mountain biker – Barrie (Baz) Thomas.

Baz has owned and operated Cycletrek for 21 years – however until October 2007, Cycletrek was located in the coastal town of Bunbury. Baz began mountain biking soon after he and his wife, Sherry, purchased the bike shop in 1987. He had started off riding in the bush around Bunbury, but found the tracks too sandy and a bit boring. So he loaded his bike in the car and drove out to the forest around Wellington Dam in the Darling Ranges (now Wellington National Park) about 20km east of Bunbury – and so began his love affair with mountain biking.

At first Baz rode alone, the only mountain biker out there in the forest, until in ’88 he was joined by Bev and Craig Spicer, which made Sherry feel much better about Baz disappearing into the bush on his bike – she had worried that if he crashed badly somewhere, no-one would know where to look for him.

That year the first mountain bike race in WA was held in the south coastal town of Albany, and then a few months later, Bev and Craig, Baz and Sherry organised the second WA mountain bike race which was held at Mt Lennard in the Wellington National Park – and the first one in the south west. This generated the interest in other local people to start mountain biking in the area.