{"id":118767,"date":"2025-11-05T05:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:57:09","slug":"police-arrest-65-year-old-man-for-nude-bike-ride-along-tamaki-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118767\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 65-year-old man for nude bike ride along Tamaki Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Multiple people said they saw a naked man cycling in the neighbourhood over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">The stretch of beachside road where the incident took place connects downtown Auckland to suburbs including \u014cr\u0101kei, Mission Bay, Kohimarama and St Heliers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">The 9.6km road is a popular destination for runners, walkers and cyclists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">This comes after another nude incident in the area in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Along the road at a nearby beach,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/ladies-bay-nudist-beach-sexual-activity-incident-not-a-first-auckland-community-leader\/DPBJOWCU4FSG7ZK32NZOIG65LE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/ladies-bay-nudist-beach-sexual-activity-incident-not-a-first-auckland-community-leader\/DPBJOWCU4FSG7ZK32NZOIG65LE\/\"> Ladies Bay<\/a>, there was an alleged incident where 10 people were seen having sex on a grass bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">A witness at the beach for an after-work swim with his fiancee said what he saw made him feel \u201crevolting\u201d, and that children had been at the beach \u201cjust minutes\u201d before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\">Ladies Bay in St Heliers has long been known as a nudist-friendly beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZzQnbEvs\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple people said they saw a naked man cycling in the neighbourhood over the past few days. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[83955,74,33846,14466,11924,51,1070,4480,2082,5158,34700,111,139,28463,69,19525,675,21529,31124,213,9636,5424,31421,210,23498],"class_list":["post-118767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-65yearold","tag-after","tag-along","tag-arrest","tag-arrested","tag-auckland","tag-bike","tag-drive","tag-for","tag-man","tag-naked","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nude","tag-nz","tag-pensioner","tag-police","tag-ride","tag-riding","tag-sports","tag-spotted","tag-street","tag-tamaki","tag-through","tag-upmarket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}