What NT Riders Can Achieve When Someone Backs Them

There's a moment in BMX racing when everything you've been working on clicks. The gate drops, your body does what it's been trained to do, and you're off the front.

I'm Brad Bellette , founder of Ride Together Australia. I've watched NT riders have that moment on national and international stages. And every time, my first thought is the same: imagine what would happen if more of them got the chance.

Team NT has punched above its weight at national level for years. Riders from Alice Springs and Darwin competing at AusCycling Nationals, representing their state against clubs with far greater resources, far more competitive depth, and far easier access to the competition circuit. And doing it well.

That doesn't happen by accident. It happens because the people behind those riders — coaches, families, club volunteers — believed in them and invested in them. Not always with money. Sometimes just with time, presence, and the willingness to drive eight hours return so a kid could do three motos.

But the riders who make Team NT are not the full picture of NT talent. They're the ones who made it through. The ones whose families could afford the travel, whose clubs had the coaching, who got the right opportunities at the right time.

There are others — plenty of them — who didn't make it through. Not because of talent. Because of logistics, cost, and circumstance.

The AusCycling pathway from local club racing to state representation to national competition is clear — but it requires resources at every step. Qualified coaching. Competition travel. The right equipment. Without those, talented riders stall out before they ever get to show what they're capable of on a bigger stage.

Ride Together's goal is simple: reduce the number of talented regional riders who fall through the gap. Fund the competition entry. Connect them with the coaching. Put the right bike under them.

The performances by Team NT riders at state and national level show exactly what's possible when riders from the Territory get support. They compete hard. They represent well. They make NT BMX proud.

Now imagine what happens when we back more of them.

That's the work. And it starts with your support.