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Urban Dirt Biking Gets a Home in Cleveland
The sport is growing in popularity, but illegal on many city streets. Can the country’s first urban dirt bike park overcome prejudice and become a model for building community?
For more than three decades, Johnnie Burton has ridden dirt bike in Cleveland. For him, it’s a family sport. His father rode dirt bike, and his grandfather started a motocross team.
It was only natural that Burton, a leader in Cleveland’s dirt biking movement, became instrumental in creating the first urban, city-run dirt bike park in the U.S.