THE LONG RIDE AUSTRALIA 2025
Bringing bike enthusiasts together, on a life-changing ride, to raise funds and awareness of prostate cancer.
THE ULTIMATE ROADIE - WITH A PURPOSE!
Riding to Esperance, WA
10-18 October 2025
The Long Ride Australia is a motorbike tour that makes a difference and raises awareness and funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. It offers the opportunity for the ride of a lifetime, riding together with a group of people who quickly become friends. Each night you’ll stay in a different town and explore new places in beautiful locations you may otherwise never visit.
Riders depart from all States and Territories, travelling through regional Australia, before meeting to ride together to Esperance, WA.
The Long Ride enables riders to experience freedom and mateship while raising awareness of prostate cancer and men’s health.
Registrations are now closed with around 200 riders registered!
Make a difference in your life and others
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Raise awareness of prostate cancer
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Ride across the Nullarbor and feel the difference
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Make new friends for life
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Make a difference in your life and others 〰️ Raise awareness of prostate cancer 〰️ Ride across the Nullarbor and feel the difference 〰️ Make new friends for life 〰️
On this ride, we remember all those that have passed, and those that cannot ride, who are forever in our hearts.
ABOUT:
Chris and Gail Dunne developed the idea of the Long Ride in 2004 when Chris was nearing retirement from the RAAF. The 2025 Long Ride will be the 13th ride since its inception.
VETERANS GETTING BEHIND IT:
With a veteran leading the charge, it’s no wonder the event has and continues to receive strong support from the Defence community. Around half of the riders are veterans.
REGISTRATION:
Registrations are now closed with around 200 riders registered for the event.
OUR ‘WHY’
Experience freedom and mateship, do something awesome, and do it for a good cause. Riders participate to make a difference in their own lives and the lives of others.
Previous riders will tell you that the ride has changed them in many ways. You quickly come to realise that whatever is troubling you, others have the same problem, and you realise you are not alone. This ride will enable you to overcome personal issues, make new friends, make a difference in your community and help others nationally to save the lives of people you do not know by raising money to support men affected by prostate cancer.
Riders stay in different towns each night and explore different sights in magnificent locations each day. This is the real thing, life on the road.
FUNDRAISING for PROSTATE CANCER
Every dollar raised will be donated to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) to fund life-saving research and support services offered to men affected by prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australian men, with over 25,000 men diagnosed each year. Tragically, 10 men die each day from the disease, with 1 in 5 likely to be diagnosed by the age of 85.
Each participant is encouraged to fundraise at least $1,000 in donations or sponsorship.
Help make a difference to those impacted by making a donation
Riders’ Stories
Paul, South Australia
"The Long Ride is not about the destination but the journey. There is generally a lot of banter at each stop during the day and then wherever you have a meal you will catch up with riders from different states and share stories and laughter. What I like the most about TLR is the camaraderie. Everyone riding for a common cause".
"Tasmania was my first Long Ride, and that was a fantastic trip. I was bunked with 3 sailors, non-serving at the time. We had so much fun. Plenty of time to see the sights and talk to people about what all the motorbikes were and all the blue shirts. Essentially sharing our cause and spreading the word and raising awareness about prostate cancer and the importance of getting checked.
"The Long Ride is not only for a good cause, it is a great reason to see the country and share those times with like minded people. Everyone knows someone who has a cancer story."
Paul will be taking part in The Long Ride for the fourth time this year when the ride departs for Esperance, WA.
David, Victoria
In 2006, soon after my 50th birthday I had a checkup with my GP, which included a PSA check. The PSA was found to be elevated and a DRE felt a lump. I was referred to a urologist and a biopsy confirmed cancer.
In May 2006 I had a RP which went smoothly. In 2008 with rising PSA I had salvage radiation which reduced my PSA to near zero.
As 2015 approached my PSA was again rising and I had, what at the time was new, a PSMA Pet scan which revealed multiple small mets. I commenced hormone therapy (LHRH) straight away.
I am now on intermittent hormone therapy depending on the PSA level which means a blood test every 3 months.
When I was first diagnosed it was a shock as I was relatively young, but because it was caught early, treatment has been relatively successful. I was able to keep working but it was after starting the hormone treatment with its side effects that I found I could not continue. Psychological support was particularly helpful during this period.
I started riding at 16 following the path of my older brothers. I stopped for quite a while and got back on, ironically at 50, as we had moved to the country. This year’s Long Ride will be my 6th. My first was to Uluru in 2014.
After I was diagnosed I informed my siblings and encouraged my brothers to be tested.
Two of my elder brothers were found to have cancer. One of them was treated and the other is on active surveillance. My younger brother also has regular testing. I encourage all males to be tested, particularly if there is any history of cancer in the family.
Although I have not been a member of the armed forces or the RSL I was convinced by my younger brother to join in the ride as he had done the first ride to Darwin.
The mutual support between riders is of great importance as we share not only a love of riding but the mutual goal of raising awareness and donations.
I am starting from Daylesford which is a small town in central Victoria and I look forward to catching up with my brother and other riders.