Hundreds of friends and family of Connor Morris, including Millie Elder-Holmes, have set off on a tribute ride through Auckland.

The emotionally-charged memorial for the son of Head Hunters associate Chris Morris will see a convoy of motorbikes travel 30km from Swanson to Ellerslie.

There was no visible police presence at the start of the tribute ride.

Morris, 26, suffered a fatal head injury after an incident outside a party on August 3 last year.

Dressed in all black and large black sunglasses today, Elder-Holmes, the adopted daughter of the late Sir Paul Holmes and Morris' partner of six years, who cradled his head as he lay dying.

After departing Swanson at 11am, the memorial parade will make its way to Don Buck Dr in Massey - otherwise known as 'Connor's Corner' - to pay tribute at the place where Morris was fatally injured.

It will then travel to the Head Hunters gang's Fight Club 88 building in Ellerslie just before noon, the site which was also used for Morris' funeral service last year.

Throughout the ride Morris' own motorbike will be ridden by his father.

A social media tribute page, 'RIP Connor Morris', set up by Morris' family, had drawn almost 31,000 endorsements from supporters and helped spread the word of the tribute event.

The ride has gone ahead as planned, despite a police raid at the Head Hunter's property earlier this week as part of a wider police probe, dubbed Operation Sylvester, targeting the alleged large-scale production and supply of methamphetamine by members and affiliates of the Head Hunters gang.

Monday marks the one-year anniversary of Morris' death. It will also mark the start of a High Court murder trial for the man charged with killing him, Michael Thrift Murray.

Murray, 33, has denied murdering Morris.