After last year’s inaugural Footscray-Roubaix cycling event, founder and organiser Elwyn Davies was prepared to leave it at that.
“There wasn’t going to be more than one,” Davies said of the fundraising ride named after the famous French cycling race.
“But after last year, people said “we’ve gotta do another one.”
And so there is, on Sunday 1 March, with all proceeds again going to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC).
With more than 150 riders already signed up for the 2026 event, Davies said those proceeds will be far in excess of what was raised for the ASRC in 2025.
“We raised roughly $2000 last year and we’re already in excess of $3000 this year and there’s still about a month to go.”
Unlike its namesake, the Footscray-Roubaix is not a race, but a ride around the roads, routes and bi-ways of Footscray and the inner west, with cyclists of all ages and abilities welcome.
Davies said the route was largely the same as last year, with some notable exceptions.
“We’re using some of the new bike tracks in the western suburbs,” he said.
“Including the one along the Footscray side of the Yarraville Gardens as part of the West Gate Tunnel Project.”
To find out more about this year’s Footscray-Roubaix route a, go to: https://shorturl.at/ZV4Oc
To sign up to take part: https://events.humanitix.com/footscray-roobaix
