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The Smear Your Mea bicycle ride isn't letting Cyclone Gabrielle blow it off course.
Download AudioThe Smear Your Mea bicycle ride isn’t letting Cyclone Gabrielle blow it off course.
The ride is to promote awareness of prostate and cervical cancer left Wellington on Tuesday.
Organiser Te Ururoa Flavell says the 15 riders had to get off their bikes and catch a ride to Foxton in the storm, but they are back on track to make the opening of Te Matatini in Auckland next Wednesday.
“As we came up it was raining here, but obviously enough to keep us off the road, but it’s not too bad here, and as I look north I think it’s going to be okay. So, that’s why we’re out on the road,” he says.
The bicycle ride is in memory of the late Talei Morrison, a leading light in kapa haka circles who died of cervical cancerr.
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