Up until about age 18, Radek would participate in 80-100 cycle races of all sorts, both on the road and track, per year. Later on, upon joining the senior ranks, he was invited into the Czechoslovak National Team as a track specialist. He was to spend more that 10 seasons competing regularly in international events at both the Worlds and Olympic levels; feeling equally at home in sprint, 1000-metre time trial, tandem, point score and even 6-Day racing.

After the infamous communist boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games Radek started to approach cycling as a more of a job rather than just trying to achieve sporting goals for his own satisfaction. He managed to defect from Czechoslovakia and, after spending a year in Austria, he arrived in Australia in 1988. It did not take long for him to become involved with cycling on the local scene via his job at Manly Cycle Centre. Soon after, he was racing again, participating in shorter track and criterium races.

A few years later, Radek, together with his friend Andrew Taylor, established his own bicycle shop, named “Favourite Cycles”, after his original cycling club in his birth town of Brno.

In 1996 Radek undertook one last return to the European racing scene, as a means to put in place a memorable ending to a long cycling career. His goal was to participate in a series of criteriums as well as track races, with the pinnacle being taking part in an international event on the Brno Velodrome, where he had started racing as a 13-year old school boy 18 years earlier - for a prize of a track bike and a place on the Brno junior team.

Having attained this last goal, satisfied, he returned to Australia, where he started becoming active in a coaching role. His work brought him together with Jan Rehula, a Czech triathlete, who eventually ended up sharing Radek’s unit – and his advice – while preparing for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. This preparation proved to be successful, as Jan won a bronze medal at the Games!

A month later, Radek was also involved with the Paralympic Games, where he was part of the Australian contingent as an Assistant Coach. Australian paralympian athletes won 24 gold medals and took the Number 1 rank amongst participating countries.

The following years saw Radek in the role of a Coach, where he was involved with the Paralympic Team at the 2001 IPC European Championships, the 2002 IPC World Championships and the 2003 pre-season preparation. During this time, he also completed his AIS Cycling Scholarship studies by graduating in Elite Sports Coaching program at the University of Queensland.

At the present time, he is active in his new business venture – ZOOM IN ZONES Testing and Coaching Unit