Fifteen-year-old Josh Livingston, of Seattle, is a first-time RAGBRAI rider. (MARY STEGMEIR / The Register) First-time rider Josh Livingston didn’t miss a beat this afternoon when asked his favorite part about RAGBRAI. “The downhill,” quipped the Seattle teen. The cyclist (and budding comedian) rolled into Des Moines’ Water Works Park today with his dad, Rob
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5:00 p.m.: Not everyone hanging out along the Des Moines river this afternoon rode into the city with RAGBRAI. Becky Haines biked about 17 miles from home in Ankeny to the food and music fair. “We just came down to see all the crazy people,” she said. Her 14-year-old son Wilbur impressed a small crowd
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Cyclists and non-bikers alike spent the afternoon at the Iowa Historical Building for the PedalPalooza event. By 4 p.m. the Nadas were playing on the terrace – after their singer had made it from Perry by bike just in time to shower and perform – state Rep. Dan Kelley was serving as DJ downstairs and
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Dallas Center, Ia. – It’s not unusual to have some, uh — how should I put this delicately? — some intestinal problems during RAGBRAI’s week-long glutton-fest of fried food and homemade ice cream. But nobody was under more pressure to stay regular today than an anonymous chicken in Dallas Center. She was the star of
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Food vendors got off to a slow start Tuesday as RAGBRAI riders took their time getting to Des Moines. As of 4 p.m., vendors along the the bridges over the Des Moines River peddling pizza, ice cream and a variety of meat sandwiches said they were still anticipating an influx of riders to come. “It’s
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Honeymooners Joe Larsen and Leigh Yarger in Valley Junction, West Des Moines. // PHOTO BY TIMOTHY MEINCH Four years ago Joe Larsen met Leigh Yarger on the annual Brr Ride from Perry to Rippey. This morning the two woke up in Perry as honeymooners and pedaled their way to Des Moines on a bicycle built
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Gregg Mooers, a manager with Des Moines’ Doll Distributing, and Kelle Molloy, a director, stand next to a stocked Budweiser truck readied for RAGBRAI riders. (Josh Hafner/The Register) How much beer would a RAGBRAI require if a RAGBRAI rode through town? “It’s a whole hell-load of beer,” said Sara Middleton, the general manager of three
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Some RAGBRAI riders used the Raccoon River Valley Trail through Dallas and Guthrie counties on Monday and Tuesday, but they did not clog it, a Dallas County Conservation official said. “I’ve heard it’s pretty open,” said Mike Beeler, natural resource manager for Dallas County Conservation. The Raccoon River Valley Trail is an 89-mile-long paved trail
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Just finished with the day’s ride from Perry, RAGBRAI veteran Kieran Cullen looked over the famously wonky menu items at Des Moines’ Zombie Burger. He finally settled on the Undead Elvis – a burger featuring peanut butter and fried bananas – for his first experience at the restaurant in the East Village. A Storm Lake
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VAN METER — One blocK from the RAGBRAI route, two great American pastimes collided: biking and baseball. Between beers and pie, they stopped into the Bob Feller Museum to learn about a hometown Hall of Fame baseball player and war hero. “Obviously, with his being a local guy we wanted to check it out,” Korey
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