With just under three weeks to go, the full house signs are up for the 2013 Pig & Whistle New Zealand New Zealand Singlespeed Championships in Rotorua.
The Rotorua Singlespeed Society ran the first championships in 2008 and again in 2009. This year race day will be on Saturday April 27.
In 2010, the society hosted the Singlespeed World Championships on the renowned Whakarewarewa Forest trail network when around 1000 mountain bikers from 30 countries competed.
"The New Zealand champs are on a much smaller scale," said society president, Gary Sullivan. "It doesn't mean they won't be as loud or colourful."
Singlespeed events are more eccentric than mainstream mountain bike events with costumes and beer shortcuts. However, at the sharp end they are just as competitive with traditional winner's tattoos at stake for the leading man and woman.