Four friends from Mexico said they are absolutely loving Iowa. The group’s biggest hits? The food and the hospitality. Michael Cullinan, 37, Ryan Flory, 39, Ryan Peseckas, 34, and Jeff Campbell, 31, all of Juarez and Nuevo Laredo Mexico, said their first trips to Iowa have left a lasting impression. Campbell is originally from Minnesota
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Watch RAGBRAI riders participate in bathtub races in Manson, Iowa. INSTRUCTIONS: • Desktop users: Click the video to play, then drag your cursor left or right to pan the 360-degree video around the scene. • Mobile users: Tap the video to play then move phone left to right experience the 360-degree view. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1MgMKQc
Manson, Ia. — If RAGBRAI readers didn’t see the signs for hamballs at the Our Savior Methodist United Church here, they couldn’t have missed Brayden Pritchard urging people to turn toward the church as soon as they hit town. With a dyed-red mohawk like a rooster’s comb and a rubber beak with a wattle, he
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Riders stopped in Manson, Iowa, on Day 2 of RAGBRAI. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1Jt8zH5
MANSON, Ia. – Any RAGBRAI-er who stopped in Manson made an impact, or at least they can say they did, as the town of Manson sits in a 74-million-year-old crater. The bathtub race was another way to make an impact. Teams donated any amount of money they desired to hop into a water-filled bathtub on
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A special sticker is the symbol to remember to help honor a passionate cycling advocate who died outside his own bike wheel business facility last year. The riders who chose to brave the first-ever gravel loop of RAGBRAI Monday morning helped honor Steve Hed – who was formerly of HED Cycling and a man who loved
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Riders flock to the free charging station in Manson on RAGBRAI’s second day. (Kyle Munson/The Register) RAGBRAI, Day 2 — Monday morning out of Storm Lake began, ever so appropriately, with a rainstorm. Alumni of last year’s ride will remember the torrential downpour that slugged us the morning out of Waverly. This wasn’t nearly
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A quick visual tour of RAGBRAI’s first meet up town stop in Washta, Iowa. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1fZ26gn
A support crew sets up camp in Fort Dodge Monday for the 142 riders of the AFCT. via RAGBRAI http://ift.tt/1I7yBi4
Little Miss Iowa MacKenzie Wallace welcomes riders to Newell with three older generations of the royal family: great-grandmother Alyce Falkner and grandmother Midge Townsend, both of Newell, and mother Tessa Wallace of Sac City. Newell — Uneasy is the head that wears the crown. Or if not uneasy, at least a little heavy “sometimes,” said
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RAGBRAI riders woke up to a moderate rain Monday morning. And that rain is probably going to follow them all morning. Allan Curtis with the National Weather Service said it’s one of those rains that’s going to follow them. “It’s not a small brief thing,” he said. But it won’t last all day. To compare,
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