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Roger Vaughan

'Open' races predicted as road nationals head to Perth

The Bay crits are gone and Mt Buninyong will be barren, meaning a new-look January for Australian cycling.

For the better part of two decades, the early-season race calendar had much the same rhythm - Geelong for the Bay classic criteriums, then Ballarat and Buninyong for the road nationals, then to Adelaide for the Tour Down Under.

Since 2015, Geelong's Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race has capped the busy domestic schedule.

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