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Knoxville campaign hits the road for $100K to build bike trail

The days are winding down to cast a vote so that the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club can score $100,000 toward building a unique public bike trail in the Urban Wilderness.
Appalachian Mountain Bike Club is hitting the road on a campaign for Knoxville to win money for a new bike trail

(WBIR) - The days are winding down to cast an online vote so that the Appalachian Mountain Bike Club can score $100,000 toward building a unique public bike trail in the Urban Wilderness.

Online voting started May 25 and ends June 4. You can vote here.

To ramp up the voting, the organization will be traveling up the I-81 corridor in a limousine covered in mountain bikes.

The bike trail project, called the Urban Wilderness Gravity Trail, is competing against projects in northern California and Duluth, Minn.

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The club, which has been building a variety of trails in the South Knoxville park, wants to highlight the area with a trail that features rock gardens, drops and "constructed features in a highly visible area that will draw attention to this regionally unique trail."

It will be the Southeast's "first world-class public downhill mountain bike trail," according to the club. You can learn more about the club's project here.

Bell Helmets is holding the contest.

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