Glendowie Bicycle Club (GBC) Spring Tweed Run

-- Gentlemen, lady-members. Bring your bicycles and your panache - organiser

The Spring Tweed Run: 2:30 p.m., Saturday 3 October, Reef Bar, Mission Bay.

The inaugural GBC ride, undertaken last March and promoted as the ‘Gentlemen's Ride’ (though with a cheery “Hello Ladies”), was a stirring success and turned discerning heads all the way along Auckland’s waterfront.

GBC’s Chairman Mike says re-branding the event Tweed Run avoids gender issues and spotlights the importance of rider panache and fashion sense.

“The bicycling movement has been enslaved to garish fashion, accessorising and fleshy contours. We want to reclaim the glory of the bicycle and celebrate its raw understated beauty – everything that is good and right,” Chairman Mike says.

The March ride’s celebrity drawcard, Gemma Atkinson, who failed to show, has this time not been invited.