These cyclists were often referred to as "wheelmen".

Skinner rode with the Lithgow Bicycle Club, which had a good membership list by 1903.

At the time, the secretary of the Lithgow Bicycle Club, Mr. A. Camp, was in receipt of a letter from headquarters, congratulating them on being the most up-to-date club of the League of Wheelmen.

Headquarters trusted that the club's success would continue and that the coming year would be a very successful one.

The club's membership was around about 265 as compared with 12 months previously when it had been just 15.

The Lithgow Cycling Sports were held at Lithgow in late December 1898. The events included the final heat of the Christmas Gift, which boasted an exciting finish.

The event included cyclists Smith, Megson, Simpson and McDonald.

In the Western District Championship, which was won in four minutes, 38 seconds, one of the unplaced men was disqualified for a month for illegal pacing.

Several heats were conducted in the Scratch Mile, with the final heat for the first, second and third laps covered at a steady pace.

In the fourth lap, McDonald suddenly jumped away and a grand race followed, especially in the last hundred yards.

Megson rode brilliantly, but was unable to recover his lost ground and was defeated by a few inches after two minutes and 22 seconds.

The Lithgow Bicycle Club held monthly committee meetings as well as its annual general meeting.

One AGM was advertised for a Monday night at the Lithgow Protestant Hall on November 3, 1903.

The 1903-1904 cycling season was about to start in Sydney and the newspaper reporter thought it was safe to say that never in the history of cycling had there been such an array of top-notchers from all parts of the world.

The racing would be of a sensational order and numerous records were anticipated.

In May 1911, a large number of the public and bicycle riders descended on Rockley, including visitors from Portland, Lithgow, Bathurst and Orange, to witness a two-mile bicycle match between Jack Atkins, who won the three-mile championship at the Easter Monday Sports, and Ernie Cummings, a local rider who had won many races locally at different sports.

Interest was very keen and both had many confident friends.

In the eighth lap, Cummings was just putting on his sprint, and was riding almost on Atkins' wheel, when the tyre on Cummings' machine slipped and threw him heavily to the ground.

He escaped with a few slight cuts and bruises to the body.

The accident was an unfortunate one, as they had only a lap and a half to complete, and both were riding in splendid form and a close contest had been anticipated.

By early 1917, there were further calls for volunteers who rode pushbikes to enlist in the Army, in particular to join the Cyclist Corps.

On Friday, March 2, 1917, in Sydney, about 50 cyclists offered to enlist in the Cyclist Corps.

They had assembled in the city during the morning, were addressed by several speakers, and then marched to barracks.

The total number of applicants for inclusion in the Corps was 182.

Riders from the Central West, coastal areas and from around Sydney came to view the events at the NSW Cyclists' Union's Olympic Carnival at the Sydney Sports Ground on a pleasant Monday evening in mid-February 1916.

G.S. Skinner was there to take part in one of the events, having travelled down from Lithgow on the steam train.

Skinner competed against W.E. Boylan, W.G. Dooley, W. Hackett, W. Wiggins, C.A. Grierson, S.B. Greenup and K.H. Hannell.