by Mark | Jul 12, 2014 | Blog
As you know by now, Rock Valley has endured record flooding in the past several weeks. If you would like to donate to the relief efforts a booth will be set up in the RAGBRAI Expo with collection buckets. The flood victims will appreciate your generosity. You will...
by Mark | Jul 12, 2014 | Blog
Seems like just a year ago the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa was wrapping up in Fort Madison. By Sunday morning, July 20, thousands of cyclists will renew a four-decade tradition, pushing away from Rock Valley on RAGBRAI XLII. Whether you are...
by Mark | Jul 12, 2014 | Blog
By: Mike Kilen, mkilen@dmreg.com Love is found, unfolds and endures on a long bicycle ride, despite wearing uncomfortable, tight shorts for a week and smelling like barn animals. Singles meet on the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. They get...
by Mark | Jul 10, 2014 | Blog
If you haven’t heard, the national bike advocacy organization, PeopleForBikes has issued a challenge just before RAGBRAI. If we have 10,000 bicyclists (people that ride bikes in Iowa if you live on either side of a river) then PeopleForBikes will present a big check...
by Mark | Jul 10, 2014 | Blog
We have been notified that Dubuque County is drafting an events ordinance to require permitting of large scale events similar to the one adopted in Iowa County, Wisconsin in the past year. Details are not clear at this time. The Iowa Bicycle Coalition has left...
by Mark | Jul 10, 2014 | Blog
by John Karras, aka Grampa RAGBRAI It seems impossible that after all these years (from 1973 to today) I can still feel that mixture of anticipation and apprehension about an approaching RAGBRAI. Yes, seems impossible, but here we are, just days away from the start...
