Lachlan Morton is an Australian professional cyclist who moved from a conventional WorldTour road path into EF Pro Cycling's alternative and Far Beyond programmes. His verified record includes the 2021 Alt Tour, the 2024 Unbound Gravel 200 win, a 12-day Tour Divide ride and the 14,200km Around Australia record. His Roadman interview is valuable because it explains the motivation behind that change in his own words. The personal-cost and training-by-feel claims are Morton's account; current team status, distances, dates and results are checked against EF and UCI records.
Official EF and UCI records are separated from Morton's first-person explanation of why he left the conventional road calendar.
Identity, career and credential facts are checked against the records below. Podcast observations remain attributed to Lachlan Morton.
01. EF Pro Cycling — Lachlan Morton official profile
Current profile establishing identity, Alt Tour facts, recent achievements and EF affiliation.
02. EF Pro Cycling — 2026 Far Beyond programme
Official current programme announcement confirming Morton's 2026 role.
03. UCI — Lachlan Morton rider record
Canonical rider identity and road-team history.
04. EF Pro Cycling — 2024 Unbound Gravel win
Official race report recording the 9:11:47 win.
05. EF Pro Cycling — Tour Divide ride
Official route diary recording 12 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes and the planned rest approach.
06. EF Pro Cycling — Around Australia record
Official completion report recording distance, time, supported format and fundraising.
07. Roadman Cycling Podcast — Lachlan Morton interview
Primary source for Morton's motivation and training-by-feel account.
Reviewed by Anthony Walsh, against EF Pro Cycling and UCI records plus the Roadman interview transcript · Last reviewed
Lachlan Morton is an Australian professional cyclist born on 2 January 1992. In 2026 he rides on EF Pro Cycling's Far Beyond programme and is known for the Alt Tour, winning the 2024 Unbound Gravel 200 and setting the 2024 Around Australia record.
No. Morton moved away from a conventional WorldTour road schedule but remains an EF Pro Cycling athlete on its 2026 Far Beyond programme, racing gravel and long-distance events and undertaking record attempts.
In his Roadman interview, Morton says performing at his best on the road demanded isolation and single-mindedness whose personal cost no longer felt worthwhile. He later returned to top-level teams before moving into EF's alternative calendar, so it was not one permanent retirement.
Morton's 2021 Alt Tour covered every Tour de France stage plus the transfers between them. EF records roughly 5,500km ridden unsupported, a Paris finish five days before the peloton and more than $700,000 raised for World Bicycle Relief.
In 2024 Morton completed at least 14,200km around Australia in 30 days, 9 hours and 59 minutes with a support crew. EF reported that the ride beat the previous mark by close to a week.
Every appearance by Lachlan Morton on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 2 episodes in total.
Roadman blog articles that reference Lachlan Morton’s work.
“I was very good on the road and performing at like a very high level it was to the detriment of like a lot of other things in my life. I had to really sort of put the blinkers on and just focus on what I was doing and be pretty pretty selfish and pretty locked down to make it happen. And that was just like weighing it up. It wasn't worth it to me.”
“It's an obsession with the performance element and I think a lot of it is driven by industry because it's something to sell. They can sell the gels, they can sell the tires, they can sell the skin suits and like it's a an easy like well-trodden path in bike riding. As opposed to trying to sell like — well not even sell but just like push the enjoyment and lifestyle factor and what it can be.”
“If you look at the whole reason like gravel kind of took off was as a counter to that road culture that was already that. And you can sort of see this like history repeating itself and you know just like the way people speak about it and that this kind of resentment around it. You can sort of see it happening again.”
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