A member of the Nic Squared tag-team (left) gets set to battle individual competitor Michi Speck, of Christchurch, as Queenstown Bike Festival organiser Geoff Hunt drops the flag.
Sole women's individual competitor Hannah Thorne is tailed by a Sunny Siders' team rider.
Individual competitor Ben Vial is tailed by a Kamikaze Chicks team rider as they enter the Ben Lomond Forest.
Oliver Whalley, of Christchurch, attacks the last corner of the downhill section before finishing in sixth place overall.
Individual competitor Geoff Small races through an S-bend turn near the end of the Ben Lomond course on his way to fifth place.
The inaugural Queenstown Bike Festival was launched in extreme style on Saturday with the six-hour Super D enduro race in the Ben Lomond Forest.
About 60 competitors in teams and as individuals competed to complete the most laps of the course, which ran from the top of the hill and down through the forest, with cyclists riding back up on the gondola.
Queenstown Times reporter Joe Dodgshun took his camera along to capture some of the racing.
