Sarah Porter was born near Wolumla in October 1860, was raised on her parent’s dairy farm, and was educated locally. A childhood accident had left her blind in one eye but, nevertheless, she became a competent horsewoman. In 1886, she married Ernest Alfred Maddock, a solicitor's clerk. By 1890 they had a son and three daughters. Encouraged by her husband, who had begun cycling in England before migrating to Australia, Sarah Maddock began riding a bicycle in 1893....