Ballarat Sebastopol Cycling Club Incorporated came into being as Ballarat Sebastopol Amateur Cycling Club in 1974 following the disbanding of two local but quite separate and distinct cycling clubs, namely Ballarat Amateur Cycling Club and Sebastopol Amateur Cycling club.

Over the summer track racing months each club raced separately on a ‘home’ track.  Ballarat raced in Victoria Park on sealed track with raised banks while Sebastopol used a sealed track in what is now the Marty Busch sports Complex, amid the mullock left over from the mines just a tad west of where the steeply banked 250 meter concrete velodrome is situated today.

In the road racing season, which covers late autumn, winter and early spring, it was quite different.  There was no mixing of riders. Except for “combines” or inter-club carnivals in which the host club invites up to 9 other clubs to race, usually a one day event or they met when completing at open promotions.
An exception was 1968 when the two clubs made a joint application to V.A.C.U. to promote the Victorian country road championships.