Our press release for the 2009 Midwest Bicycle Fest in the Haysville Sun-Times.

The 5th Annual Midwest Bicycle Festival (Sunday, September 27th) PRESS RELEASE
The Fifth annual Midwest Bicycle Festival co-hosted by the Coasters Bicycle Club will be Sunday, September 27th at Riggs Park in Haysville Kansas from 10:00 am – 4:00pm. To get to Riggs Park take Main/Seneca to Sarah Lane turn west (turn at the DQ) and follow it down to Hungerford Ave. Take Hungerford Ave to Park Dr. and turn right once again. The festival is on the west side of Riggs Park. Bring one bicycle or bring twenty.

Admission is free.

The Midwest Bicycle Fest is known to draw bicycle enthusiasts from all over the state of Kansas and some bicycles show up from Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska. Come show, talk about and ride all kinds of bicycles including customs, cruisers, choppers antiques and the rare and unusual bicycles. Factory made or home made you will see many examples of bicycles in all sorts of forms.

The Midwest Bicycle Fest is a family friendly event with fun games, events and give-a-ways. Bicycle Limbo is always fun to do or watch. How low can your bicycle go? Bicycle Limbo is just like regular limbo, but you have to ride your bicycle and stay under the very low, low bar to win. Slam on your brakes for the skid contest and see if anyone has a blow out this year. Try it for yourself or watch the technique of the masters who have perfect form and skid gracefully like skaters on ice. Or just ruin an otherwise good tire.

Enter the raffle to win a new cruiser bicycle. Each ticket is only one dollar and you can enter as many times as your mom will let you. With that same raffle ticket tons of door prizes will be given away.

Vote on your favorite Kustom and your Classic bicycle in the “People’s Choice” award to be given away. Each year brings out a new winner so don’t miss it.
The parade ride around the park and through a few streets of Haysville will start after the festival is over at 4 pm.

Grill Master Mitch will serve up free hot dogs and BBQ again this year, oh and he got a bicycle too. Accent Mobile Music is providing the sound and music again this year too.
For additional information on the Midwest Bicycle Festival please visit www.midwestbicyclefest.com, where you can download flyers and see photos from past shows.

Contact Randy V. at randy@locojoe.com
Also visit www.coastersbicycleclub.com to see all the club events and group activities.

Thanks Erick.

Members from the same family have won both the Skid and Limbo contests for the past 2 years.

4 generations of one family have attended for 4 years in a row.

This event has drawn bicycle enthusiasts from as far away as Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska.

Haysville was once the "Peach Capital" of Kansas and now for one Sunday a year it's the "Bike Capital".

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