Maciver’s cycling journey started in 1986 after moving to Australia from Scotland the year before.

Wanting to do some more exercise, Maciver popped into Jock Bullen's shop in Marsh Street and bought himself a steel-framed, steel-wheeled Jock Bullen Special and never looked back.

Maciver quickly went through the ranks at club level and within a couple of years he was competing – and winning – at the Northern Division Championships.

After a flurry of golds in the Northern Division, he entered the NSW State Masters in 1995 and won the road race at his first attempt. A year later he went back and did exactly the same thing.

“They didn't learn," he reflected.

That was in the highly competitive Masters 4 category while in 2017 he competed in Masters 9.

During that time, not only has Maciver raced in all of the NSW State Championship competitions since 1995, he's won at least one medal in every single one of them. 58 medals in 22 years of state-level competition, including four years when he achieved a clean-sweep.

Maciver has particularly fond memories of his 1995 season. Aside from being the year he grabbed the first of his 38 NSW Masters gold medals, he competed in Open B grade in the Inverell Two-Day Tour and the Armidale Annual Road Race. Maciver was first in the former event and second in the latter to a very promising youngster from Inverell who was viewed as too young to compete in A grade. That youngster, who went on to slightly bigger things in Europe, was Heinrich Haussler.

Reinforcing 1995 as his breakthrough season, that year Maciver won the Coonabarabran to Gunnedah 110km Handicap Race.

“I put in a hard sustained effort over the last 20 kilometres, riding at over 50 kilometres per hour along a flat section of road and I remember thinking the bunch would have to be really moving if they were going to catch me. I had a motorbike rider nearby and they kept me informed of the gaps and the bunch was not closing fast. That was good for morale and it certainly spurred me on,” Maciver said.

Success has also come at Australian nationals, evidenced by the overflowing lycra drawer and the impressive associated medal tally. In 17 years he's acquired 32 nationals medals.

Not surprisingly, Maciver is a well known figure at state and national events and his fellow racers have a huge amount of respect for the man.

While Maciver didn't manage to compete in a UCI Masters Road World Championship, he did make it to three World Masters Games in 1994, 2002 and 2009 which was his best effort with bronzes in the ITT and the road race in the MMAS8 class.

Maciver won’t be lost completely to cycling. He intends to keep riding for health and fitness reasons with a group of retirees known as the OAPiLs (Old Age Pensioners in Lycra).