[3] Harris competed alongside the big names in cycling in Australia during the southern summer of 1895-1896, receiving £400 for winning one race alone.
He fell on the racing path at Aston on Easter Monday 1897 and succumbed to his injuries at the General Hospital Birmingham April 21, 1897 aged 24 years."
Dick Swann wrote a book titled Bert Harris of the Poly: A Cycling Legend which was published by V Harvey in January 1974.
ISBN 978-0-85544-010-7 Roger Lovell, a Leicester businessman is hoping to raise £30,000 in order to erect a public statue to commemorate Harris.
[6] Lovell also approached the BBC to film a drama documentary, which was subsequently made by Victorian reconstructionists on location in Leicester.