Bicycling Australia

2021 Man Ride: ‘Go Get Lost’

FIVE YEARS AGO, IN 2016, IT WAS ANOTHER harrowing statistic that prompted Black Sheep to begin the Man Ride: 1 in 5 men were taking their own lives. Anxiety. Depression. Mental illness were all on the rise. It wasn’t an exclusive club either. Fathers. Sons. Sportspeople. Tradies. And teenagers were all suffering. But no one was talking about it.

Back then, Man Ride organisers rode 1000km over four days through the Australian outback—at the time

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