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A St. Louis Post Dispatch article covers the Midwest Mountain Bike Festival, which starts this Friday, April 7th, 2006:

John Donjoian, coordinator of the Midwest Mountain Bike Festival, said St. Charles County offers the perfect setting for the festival because of the number of biking trails in close proximity.

"This area is really unique in the Midwest because you can do a 43-mile ride," Donjoian said. "To be able to do that in other areas you would have to be way out in backcountry, but here you can do it all with connectivity to the Katy Trail."

Klondike Park will be the home base for the festival and the starting point of Sunday's epic ride. The park, located in southwest St. Charles County off Highway 94 in Augusta, has five trails, ranging in difficulty and technical aspects that are connected by flat trails and form a five-and-a-half-mile loop through the park.

Representative Mike Sutherland, who has sponsored much of the recent bicycle-friendly legislation in the Missouri General Assembly (including a bill this year to make it easier to build mountain biking trails in MO state parks) will the event's kickoff speaker at 9:15 AM Friday morning.

The web page for the festival is on the GORC web site. permanent link to article: "Midwest Mountain Bike Festival"
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