At 11:45pm on Saturday, Kin Kin rider Lachlan Davis set off from the Old Gympie Post Office aiming to better his 2018 record to Brisbane, and to break the Landsborough-Brisbane record set by Jack Walker in 1939.

10 minutes were lost to a flat tyre 28kms in which saw Lachlan reach Landsborough a little over 2 minutes behind his own record, from there mild temperatures and mostly flat roads saw him make good progress through to Caboolture. 

By the 140km mark Lachlan said he was "running on empty legs", and the final 45kms into Brisbane were "excruciating".

He eventually reached the Brisbane GPO with a time of 6hr45m9s, 37m18s ahead of the 2018 record. The Landsborough-Brisbane stretch took 2hr43m9s, 19m32s faster than the 81 year old previous record.


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At 7pm on Friday the 9th of October, 48 riders set off from Esk on the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail Users Association's annual BVRT E2Ex2 Challenge. Despite temperatures dipping to near freezing, the top riders set a ferocious pace for the course of more than 200 miles (323km).

Well known Brisbane rider Joris van der Tang was the first to make it back to Esk, his time of 11hr43m54s taking 11m17s from his own record set just over 4 months ago. To date Joris is the only rider to have ridden the BVRT end to end and back in under 12 hours.

Meanwhile Anna Beck, the 2018 XCM National Champion was setting an astonishing speed, crossing the line after just 13hr38m54s, a staggering 4hr32m6s ahead of the previous record set by Rebecca Stone in May 2018.

President of the BVRTUA Paul Heymans congratulated both riders on their new records, saying of Anna's effort "I am just in awe. I think that record may stand for some time before anyone manages to beat it."