Jesse James Bike Tour

The Mill Towns Trail is the beneficiary of the Jesse James Bike Tour this year (see our Tour Beneficiaries page for more).

Last week, there was a groundbreaking for the new trailhead in Dundas with local civic officials and leaders doing the dirty work (left photo). In the right photo with Dundas mayor Chad Marks is sculptor Mac Gimse (left) who unveiled a scale model of his sculpture that will be placed near the trailhead. Thanks to Rotarian Ray Cox for the photos. See his blog post on the event for more.

The photos above are of the area to the south of Walgreen’s along the Hwy 3 bridge over the Cannon River where the Mill Towns Trail will pass over a new pedestrian bridge that’s going to be constructed this summer. Riverside Park is on the other side of the river. On the right, Rotarian Neil Lutsky (on the right in the photo) was a guest this week on Locally Grown, a local radio show/podcast, talking about the latest with the trail.

Click play to listen. 30 minutes.

We now have our Jesse James Bike Tour photo gallery up, and thus far it includes photo albums from the 2005 and 2006 tours, as well as our t-shirt archives going back to 1995.

We’ve added a sidebar graphic link to the Jesse James Bike Tour registration on Active.com.

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It’s a work in progress but here’s a current preview of the t-shirt design for 2007. Click to enlarge.

We’re working on creating an image gallery of all the t-shirt designs from previous years.

Minnesota Trails has our ad in the new issue. Click to enlarge.

We’ll have a booth at this weekend’s Bicycling, Travel and Fitness Expo at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

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Last December, some of the Jesse James Bike Tour committee members met at the Contented Cow to begin planning for this year’s event. (Click photos to enlarge.)

Left photo, left side of table, front to back: Rick Esse, Peggy Prowe, Steve Wilmot.
Left photo, right side, L to R: John Stull, Jack Hoschouer, Sarah Anderson.
Right photo: John Stull bares his chest to show the group his new Ironman tattoo.