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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.

It's named for Ohioan John Penton, the virtual inventor of the modern lightweight dirt bike.