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It sometimes gets very steep. Spectators (and photographers) can get close to the action if they dare, as in European rallyes.

When a bike goes down, first order if business is to check if there are any other riders headed that way.

Mud-covered and happy, 16-year-old Alexi Phillips of Tryon, North Carolina took first place in her class aboard a KTM 150. Her friend, Davis Vasilatos, raced on a Yamaha 125.

The course wound far back into the woods -- a lap took as much as 30 minutes to complete. Sometimes there was a little congestion, as here. The races were not for a specified number of laps, but instead they determined how many laps a rider could complete in a specified amount of time, usually two or three hours.

Here's something you don't see every day. Though stressing bikes to the max happened there a lot.

The Sunday Creek Raceway was transformed into a small city during the weekend, and roads and paths there were filled with a mixture of people on foot, on bicycles, in cars, on ATVs, and even on tractors. Oh, and motorcycles, too.

Bicyclists were wise to check carefully before riding across the racetrack.