There was a flip side to the elation of surprise winner Josh Beikoff (RCA Bikes Online) at the Powercor Melbourne to Warrnambool, and that was the disappointment of so many others who had thought they were in with a strong shot of claiming victory at a race that looms large in the Australian cycling landscape.
The most obvious example was, perhaps, Australian road champion Patrick Eddy (Team Brennan) who, for good reason, had come into the race – which first ran in 1895 – as one of the key favourites.
Just as Jayco-AlUla always go into the Australian National Championships with onlookers seeing it as their race to lose – Eddy upset the apple cart in 2026 – in this case it was Team Brennan that was the one to beat. They had a stacked team for the race that would play out as the third round of the Hertz ProVelo Super League.
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