The quirkiest (and creepiest) shop on RAGBRAI

La Porte City, Ia. — Even among the horde of bikes, it was nearly impossible to miss the 7-foot-tall foam mushroom situated along Main Street in downtown Vinton. Then I spotted the grotesque masks and the name of the shop behind the giant fungi: Midnight...

The perils of spandex, bladders on RAGBRAI

A line of portable toilets awaits a crowd of RAGBRAI riders. Timothy Meinch/The Register Spandex, full bladders and portable toilets. The combo gets a wee-bit complicated when multiplied by the thousands along the RAGBRAI trail. Some riders avoid the situation...