Whangarei BMX Club will host one of the biggest transtasman competitions in the sport on Labour Weekend.
The club will stage the 2017 BMX New Zealand North Island Titles, a multi-day event featuring the best riders.
This event has attracted about 500 to the region, with 27 racers coming from Australia.
Some of the country's top elite riders will be on deck, while New Zealand's and Australia's best 11-year-old riders will be pitted against each other in a test series known as the Mighty 11s.
The Mighty 11s traces its roots back to 1988, when a BMX club in Ipswich, Queensland invited every 11-year-old in Australia for a meet and 92 turned up.