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The 54-year-old cycling icon [Gary Fisher] was in Arkansas on April 9 and 10 to seek a challenge of his own: the 60-mile Ouachita Challenge mountain bike race based in Oden.

[Gary Fisher] and Cameron Chambers, a 23-year-old Kansan who races for his professional Subaru-Gary Fisher Mountain Bike Team, stopped in Little Rock on the first day. Richard Machycek, owner of Arkansas Cycling & Fitness, showed them around the Central Arkansas Recreational Pedalers (CARP) trails at Camp Robinson.

During an autograph stop at Machycek’s store on Bowman Curve in Little Rock, Chambers described the CARP trails as fun.

“We didn’t climb a lot but it looked like we could have climbed a bit if we’d wanted to,” he said.

The next day Chambers, who specializes in 24-hour races, beat 192 other riders to win the Ouachita Challenge on a $1,600 Fisher 2005 Paragon, a 29-inch hard-tail. He set a course record 4:39. Fisher led the pack ceremonially from the starting line and finished 42nd in just over six hours.

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