Last week Gareth came down from Palmy and bombed some hills with us.

I didn’t get any photos on the ride, but here’s some from the pre-start.

Thursday the 22nd was a perfectly still night; Richard, Tim and I hit the streets.

The route was a reverse-double-bays of about 33km, heading out through Newtown and stopping in Seatoun for some shark-n-taties on the beach.

60km or so ride out to Eastbourne . Ridiculous pace on the way back! Cramp life!

Full Bays fulla bae!

With daylight savings rolling in we ended up with 12 riders last thursday! sweet! went for a big bays spin Time trailing 90 gear inches with 16 spokes and tubs! boom. was a dope ride and good fun at the pub after. catch you all next week! chur.

Frame: Subrosa Malum 56cm.
Crankset/Bottom Bracket: All-City/Shimano.
Pedals: BMX Pedals.
Drivetrain/Cog/Chainring/Chain: What’s a drivetrain?/Shimano Dura-Ace 16T/All-City 48T/Izummi Silver.
Handlebars/Stem: Shadow Conspiracy/Red Line BMX.
Saddle/Seatpost: San Marco Suede Concor/Shadow Conspiracy.
Front Wheel/Hub/Tyre:Black Velocity B43/Taiwanese Crap/Vittoria Randonneur 28c.
Rear Wheel/Hub/Tyre:Black Velocity B43/All-City/Vittoria Randonneur 28c.
Accessories:Chari&Co Sticker/DameTruth Sticker/SteadyRollin’ Sticker/Vans Sticker/Hold Fast Straps/Taylor Gang/Keo-Spins/Track-Standing/Hipster/Back Flips/Do A Trick.

Thursday Rides are back! …well they never left really. Last week was solid ride and a good turn out too. We mixed it up a bit last week and rode to The Hutt, loaded up with pizza and beer then rode back. For a change the rain didn’t show up till after the ride. Its amazing how chill a motorway ride is without traffic and wind.

Here’s a shot Tim took after the ride (a couple of riders from the night missing here)

Tim took a few other photos, expect a couple of bike checks surfacing soon

Hey T. Blog Supreme gain followers. love ya man.

We arrived in Auckland at 4am this morning. Had a few minutes sleep and woke up around 8 am. We were feeling pretty shit to be honest!

Todays official events started with the Meet & greet and then a quick, shortened Tank farm ride. We then headed to Parnell Rise for some good quality sprint races up the hill. Looked like everyone had some fun. Ivan from Steadyrollin/Red Bull hooked up some Red Bulls, thanks Ivan!

Frank, James and Ivy organised the races. Lester Perry from QuietChaos/Pavement Panthers came out on top for this event, winning easily, and in style. Crusing over the line, uphill with no hands on bars. Her picked himself up a G-Shock watch, $200 Qubic voucher and a DVS prize pack. Nice.

Following the racing, we headed back to Qubic for some drinks, socialising and some Sausages.

Afterwards we went out for another ride, ending up bombing dominion road a couple of times. We had 1 casualty on the way down. Riding on we then had another crash when Armand wiped out and broke his helmet in a few places. Lucky he was wearing one otherwise he’d be in hospital right now. We decided to cool things off and headed to Sals doe some Pizza slices. Best pizza I’ve ever tasted, for sure.

All in all, a good first day. Some good results from the DameTruth crew. Tomorrow is the Criterium, 10km around UniTec. Then the Main event – Skull Bike Club/T-Whites bikes Booze cruise at 6pm. It’s gonna be amazing. If you can get there make sure you do.

Photos to come.

Booze cruise pics – finally!

After going from 200+ out-of-focus and too dark photos, we’re down to 34 ok ish looking shots.

Good times had by all.