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- ↑ "Aussie Highlights at Goulburn - Sydney Cycle Classic". Australian Cycling Memories website. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ↑ "Opperman scores". New Zealand Truth. 24 November 1927. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ↑ "Cup Trophy - Cycling, Awarded to Hubert Opperman, C.B. Kellow, Dunlop Road Race (Dunlop Grand Prix), Victoria, 1927". Museum Victoria website. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
- ↑ "Dunlop Grand Prix". The Australasian . Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 26 November 1927. p. 72.
- ↑ Slade, Andrew. "Koo-Wee-Rups cycling heritage" (PDF). Koo Wee Rup Blackfish, August 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
