{"id":626764,"date":"2026-04-24T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626764\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:10:19","slug":"craig-bingham-to-remain-chair-of-auscycling-as-sgm-motion-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626764\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Bingham to remain Chair of AusCycling as SGM motion defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following years of frustration and several months of debate, Craig Bingham has been retained as AusCycling Chair following the vote at Thursday night\u2019s contentious Special General Meeting.<\/a><\/p>\n

Overseen by AusCycling Director Michael Smith AO, the virtual meeting resulted in a clear defeat for the motion to have Bingham removed.<\/p>\n

With 265 votes for the motion and 621 against, the result fell far short of the required 50 per cent majority for the motion to succeed. 74 votes were abstentions.<\/p>\n

In his opening statement, Michael Smith described the lead up to the SGM as \u2018very difficult\u2019 given the high emotions and vastly differing perspectives on the motions put forward.<\/p>\n

\"\"Image: Peter Maniaty<\/p>\n

Official statements for and against the motion were heard from Richard McGillivray from Midland Cycling Club, Matt Battye from Canberra Off Road Club and AusCycling Chair Craig Bingham.<\/p>\n

Individuals from across the Australian club cycling community were then invited to speak in favour or against the motion to remove Bingham.<\/p>\n

This included a passionate response from Aaron Liang of the Blackline Track League who said Bingham should not be made a \u2018sacrificial lamb\u2019 arguing clubs should \u2018support AusCycling and work together to find solutions\u2019 and another from UCI Executive Committee Member and AusCycling Board Member Anne Gripper who said \u2018there are not enough Craig Binghams in Australian sport, to remove one seems crazy and reckless.\u2019<\/p>\n

Speaking in favour of the motion, Michael Burgher from the ACT\u2019s Vikings Cycling Club stressed the motion was not intended as a personal or professional attack on Craig Bingham, but rather the direct result of a frustrating lack of momentum. <\/p>\n

He explained his club supported the motion as it puts AusCycling on notice that clubs want to be listened to.<\/p>\n

\"\"AusCycling\u2019s Chair Craig Bingham. Image: Peter Maniaty<\/p>\n

Somewhat surprisingly, beyond the opening statement from Midland\u2019s Richard McGillivray, Burgher was one of only two people who choose to speak up in favour of the motion\u2014with considerably more cautioning against it. <\/p>\n

Watching on as the meeting progressed an air of inevitably grew that the motion was likely to fail and it ultimately did by a considerable margin.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n

Despite the motion\u2019s failure, a considerable amount of reflection appeared to on display from the key AusCycling figures in attendance. Voices and concerns were raised by clubs to the sport\u2019s leadership in the most humbling of public forums. <\/p>\n

Now those clubs will be watching on closely for signs that those voices were genuinely heard, hopeful of change in the way the governing body engages with and supports clubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollectively lets find a way to have better dialogue, diversity of opinions is critical to make informed decisions,\u201d Craig Bingham said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m completely for (finding better ways to) reach time-poor volunteers in clubs, we want to have these conversations, its frustrating that we\u2019ve got to this point to have this conversation, everyone is agreeing we need to have more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2026 AusCycling Annual General Meeting (AGM) is scheduled for\u00a0Saturday, 30 May 2026. <\/p>\n

You can see AusCycling\u2019s statement here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Peter Maniaty<\/p>\n

Peter Maniaty – Peter is Bicycling Australia\u2019s senior journalist, and highly respected in the world of cycling. From bike reviews, to destination features and nitty gritty opinion pieces, he\u2019s a gun writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following years of frustration and several months of debate, Craig Bingham has been retained as AusCycling Chair following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-626764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}