by Mark | Apr 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Contest begins May 1. Sign up at www.iowagoesbybicycle.com We Iowans have set our sights on winning the National Bicycle Challenge. Last year Vermont, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Colorado dominated the contest, but Iowa stayed steady in the top 10 states. This year,...
by Mark | Apr 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you’re training for RAGBRAI in the Cedar Falls area, you may have noticed a smell. A break in a sewer line Tuesday sent sewage across a bike trail in Cedar Falls, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported. Authorities said people and pets should avoid...
by Mark | Apr 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
An edited image of the Des Moines store Raygun’s former shirt design for the city’s RAGBRAI stop appears on the store’s Facebook page. (Facebook.com) Confused? So were many Raygun customers on Monday who wanted to buy a Des Moines-RAGBRAI T-shirt on...
by Mark | Apr 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
The most popular blogs every year is my training plan for preparing for RAGBRAI. This has proven to be popular among riders. So here is this year’s edition. This is meant to be a guide, not necessary an absolute plan to be followed to a ‘T’. The main thing it...
by Mark | Apr 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate...
