Simon Kennett will be holding a talk and slide show in which he will describe his experience in the Great Divide Race.

It will be at Rongotai College's Library, at 2pm, on Sunday 17 August. Simon will also be auctioning off his GDR bike, and a few other bits and pieces. I'll try to get a confirmed list of things asap.

Rongotai College is on Coutts Street, about half way between Burkes Cycles and Rocket Bikes. The school library will be signposted from the main entrance.

Feel free to submit specific questions of interest, in this thread. Then, Simon can make sure he covers all the interesting stuff!

Did the DBR cycle pants make it back to NZ???? I hope they will be up for auction

I can't wait for this!

I just read how early in the day this is

Will you still be in bed darling?

mob: It's going to be cool, locked in and ready to go (and conveniently I can go to PaknSave after).

I wish I could make it. I really enjoyed the talk he gave before the race.

Sunday is beginning to look mighty busy! PNP social ride in the morning, meeting friends for brunch at 11:30am in town, then off to Rongotai to hear Simon speak!

I'm really looking forward to this

Hopefully see some of you this afternoon!

I'm going to sift into town on my roadie, browse some shops, then head to Rongotai Then maybe head back via the Miramar/Bays part of the BP race next week (depends on how shattered my legs feel ).

That was excellent.

Very interesting to hear the photos described, and the little anecdotal stuff from along the adventure.

Awesome to see the auction was fairly successful and involved plenty of good humour

Yeah, great talk and good to get a bit more of a feel about what the race was like Reading the blogs and looking at photos can only tell you so much of the story!

Good stuff! A pity there weren't more people there for the auction part of it, though I'm sure the unsold gear will sell for good $$$ in the end...