Fun Run attendance down about 15 percent

Participation in the Arizona Route 66 Fun Run was down about 15 percent this year — from 841 participants signed in 2010 to about 700, reported the Kingman Daily Miner.

The story cited higher gasoline prices as a possibility for the drop. Nearby Laughlin, Nev., holding its annual Laughlin River Run motorcycle event the same weekend probably siphoned off a fair number of people, also. The newspaper said the River Run was up from last year, but down from more recent times.

The Fun Run is always hosted on the first weekend of May, which includes when the first day of the month falls on a weekend like it did this month, Davis said. The River Run is normally scheduled for the third weekend in April but was pushed back a week because of the Easter holiday.

Davis said Fun Runners had no problem with their classic cars sharing the road with the motorcyclists. Most even looked forward to it.

The routes of the River Run and the Fun Run overlapped in the Kingman-to-Oatman stretch. That part of Oatman Road is twisty and narrow, and had to be a bit precarious with a double-dose of a motorcycle and classic-car festival.

Local police said no major incidents occurred over the weekend and just 10 accidents during the River Run, with three injuries.

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