Ernest Bainbridge

The Dunlop Grand Prix carried the title of Long Distance Road Champion of Australasia.

[15][16] One consequence of the Dunlop Grand Prix was the public subscription, organised by the Sporting Globe to send Opperman and an Australian team to the Tour de France.

Their position was worsened by Henri Desgrange's plan to run most of the race as a team time trial, as he had the previous year.

The American historian Bill McGann wrote: With four rather than 10 riders to share the pace, Opperman and his team were handicapped.

He was forced to withdraw in the fifteenth stage in the French Alps due to saddle sores and infected wounds from crashes.