ABOUT SINGLE SPEEDING
Single Speeding is when riders have a bike setup with just one single gear. Bicycles can be either singlespeeds or fixed-gears. Most of the bicycles used in these races are mountain bikes however some people choose to take part in the event on cyclo-cross bicycles, or even road bikes.
Check out Wikipedia on Single Speed World Champs for the back ground of the sport.
In NZ Single Speeding has become very popular in Rotorua and they hosted the 2010 World Championships. The crew up there have this website, and they like to hog the NZ Champs at least every two years. Otherwise the venue for the next venue is usually decided by some form of random competition. That's how Dunedin won the rights... thanks to a bunch of drunken lads wearing speedos, riding kids bikes around a pump track.
Costumes are now a big part of single speeding and so is beer drinking. Its important to remember that drinking beer is not essential. Riders get the choice of drinking a beer (or suitable alternative such as eating a weetbix) in exchange for a sizable short cut. It brings color and happiness to the events and usually apart from a few nutcases racing at the front, speed is not really all that important in single speed races. In fact, there is usually no timing at all, everyone that does not win, gets 2nd.
Another big rule in Single Speed Championship events around the world is that the winners must get a tatoo... check out some of the recent ones that have been earned in the past few NZ champs!
Check out Wikipedia on Single Speed World Champs for the back ground of the sport.
In NZ Single Speeding has become very popular in Rotorua and they hosted the 2010 World Championships. The crew up there have this website, and they like to hog the NZ Champs at least every two years. Otherwise the venue for the next venue is usually decided by some form of random competition. That's how Dunedin won the rights... thanks to a bunch of drunken lads wearing speedos, riding kids bikes around a pump track.
Costumes are now a big part of single speeding and so is beer drinking. Its important to remember that drinking beer is not essential. Riders get the choice of drinking a beer (or suitable alternative such as eating a weetbix) in exchange for a sizable short cut. It brings color and happiness to the events and usually apart from a few nutcases racing at the front, speed is not really all that important in single speed races. In fact, there is usually no timing at all, everyone that does not win, gets 2nd.
Another big rule in Single Speed Championship events around the world is that the winners must get a tatoo... check out some of the recent ones that have been earned in the past few NZ champs!