A report is being prepared for the Coroner after a bicycle rider fell over a guard rail and died near Goulburn yesterday.

The 61-year-old Engadine man was with a group of students in an annual bike ride from Canberra to Wollongong when the crash happened.

At 8am yesterday (Saturday 2 May 2015) the group set out from Dickson, Australian Capital Territory. They stopped at Gunning for lunch and began riding again at1pm along the Hume Highway toward Goulburn.

At 2.35pm they were near Cullerin Road, Breadalbane, riding up a slight incline, when the man fell over a guard rail.

A registered nurse, from the support vehicle following the group, assisted the man and began CPR until an ambulance arrived.

He was taken to Goulburn Base Hospital where he died.

A report is being prepared for the Coroner.