Rick Robson started Ballarat Bike Repairs in 2024, after spending most of his life around, or on bikes. Years of servicing friends and family bikes encouraged his transition into full time servicing and repairs in Ballarat and the  surrounding area,

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The bike connection goes much further. A road rider since he was 11, Rick was building his own race bikes age 13, since then he has built and serviced hundreds of bikes, from kids bikes to Elite Pro' riders bikes.

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While working for Bicycle Victoria (Bicycle Network) in 2007 Rick was crushed under a truck whilst riding to a business meeting. After months of rehabilitation and learning to walk again, he studied Photography in Melbourne and worked as a freelancer for CycleSport Victoria. This led to working in the UK, for Cycling magazines - producing over 400 hundred pages of content for Cycling Magazines and books.. He returned to live in Australia in 2017, working remotely for a large UK-based worldwide bike retailer (Merlin Cycles) as a copy writer and then marketing manager until 2023.  

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Seven years in Bike Marketing reinforced Rick's belief that bikes are 'over-marketed'! As bikes evolve and develop, they are gradually moving away from simple, basic & fun to being more complicated, over engineered, complex and expensive. Ballarat Bike Repairs don't want to sell you a new bike, the aim is to keep used bikes working at their best, for longer. 

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Whether you ride to work or school, weekend cafe rides or  gravel trails, rail trail or shredding the Creswick tracks, Rick will ensure your bike is working at its best.