Thread started by marino at 04.29.08 - 12:18 am

Am I the only person here that had never heard of Ragbrai before?
Ragbrai is a week long 500 mile ride that takes place every year at the end of July in Iowa. It's been going on since the early 70s.

10,000 riders attend officially and several thousand more crash it.
The registration fee is $125 but since the registration deadline was April 1st our only option would be to crash it.

Here are some links:
Ragbrai Official site
Ragbrai Wikipedia article
Museum of Ragbrai buses
More buses
Even more buses
Ragbrai bike teams
A serious bike BBQ
Team Gold myspace

Is the bus going to be ready by mid July????

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Maybe Ruth can convince Maria...



Joe Borfo
04.29.08 - 12:24 am

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Mmm... beer... Aahh... bikes...



Rogue Rida
04.29.08 - 12:29 am

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You and Maria will ride the tandem and Ruth will drive the bus. Nah...Ruth would not drive the bus. My mom would!
She was a bus driver you know.



marino
04.29.08 - 12:30 am

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Does she wear combat boots also?



Rogue Rida
04.29.08 - 12:38 am

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i was sold on the idea after i saw this photo



HANDBONE
04.29.08 - 1:03 am

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awesome.



HANDBONE
04.29.08 - 1:04 am

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@MARINO
I've known about Ragbrai for years!!!

My former wife is from Iowa!!!

I was thinking about going!!




Limeyfly
04.29.08 - 1:29 am

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I posted a question on the Ragbrai forum about night riding. I got a range of answers from reasoned discouragement to "stay out of our state" to this very flattering response:

In my club, I brought up a night ride route after reading about some of your rides from downtown LA to San Diego etc. the idea got a wierd response. I have told many hard core roadies about your site and they have checked it out. But you are the most unique of anywhere and nothing similiar exists in Portland Vancouver or Durrango. You guys rock and the rest of the planet isn't quite ready for you yet. There are numerous party teams that ride this however as riders you would be starting a new 21st century lore team like what the Bad Boys started (another group that is considered rogue that rides self contained dressed in black with a bar and other essentials mounted on their bikes).

You guys should ride and introduce some real urban effect to this here Ragbrai.

Haha! Who is going?
No Naysayers!



marino
04.29.08 - 9:11 am

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I wanna go!!!!!!!



Eric Hair
04.29.08 - 9:16 am

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Judging by how dead Des Moines was at night, it was no wonder that you got some responses aside from that positive one.
I would do this, I've got a friend that recently moved out there.




bentstrider
04.29.08 - 9:19 am

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here is the thread I started on their forum.



marino
04.29.08 - 9:40 am

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big BUMP!
b-rad and i had talked about crashing this as well during our trip. it would require even more planning, but if Ridazz are there it might motivate us to get there...

cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon



SKIMDARCUS
04.29.08 - 1:52 pm

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YAY



Joe Borfo
04.29.08 - 2:05 pm

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