Marble Rock — It’s not every day you meet someone who founded a town. It wasn’t Thursday, either. But that didn’t stop local liar Bill Wentworth from telling hundreds of RAGBRAI visitors that he had founded Marble Rock — you know, back in the 1800s. The old-timer sat in a lawn chair next to
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http://ift.tt/1ny6imW Marble Rock — In one sense, RAGBRAI is just an overgrown parade, so riders are accustomed to being watched. But they felt more watched than usual here, under the curious buzz of local Bill Bucklen’s remote-controlled drone. The $1,300 Chinese quadricopter spun its four propellers up to 300 feet next to the road,
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Today riders wear jerseys in spirit for their college on RAGBRAI. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1x8qvkC
Vanessa Fixmer-Oraiz explains that she helped build a bamboo-frame bicycle to ride in RAGBRAI to raise awareness about the effects of global climate change on rural bamboo-craft communities in the Philippines. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1t07D9D
Ryan, from Des Moines, explains his passion for longboarding and what drove him to skate across the state. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1ph0Fqr
Elizabeth Reetz from Team Archaeology plays the vintage “Game of Iowa”, a roll-and-move trivia game with questions about Iowa, at East Park in Mason City. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/UvWrm9
Elizabeth Reetz from Team Archaeology plays the vintage “Game of Iowa” at East Park in Mason City. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/UvWrm9
Beer columnist Don “Joe Sixpack” Russell from Philly rides his first RAGBRAI. RELATED: Video: How did Joe Sixpack get his nickname? via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1pMX2Kc
Riders dig for fossils at Fossil Prairie Park at the entrance for Rockford. RELATED: Video: RAGBRAI fossil hunt in Rockford via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1z8JmPt
Due to technical difficulties there will be no live RAGBRAI video show from along today’s route from Mason to Waverly. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1z8Jkah
Mason City police say a “fairly large amount” of money was turned into the department Thursday morning. To claim it, the owner must describe the container and the approximate amount inside. The main phone number for Mason City police is 641-421-3636. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1z8JcHA
Riders can take home their own Devonian fossil from the Fossil & Prairie Park Preserve in Rockford. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1nliKGZ