by Mark | Jul 8, 2015 | Blog
by Mark Wyatt, Iowa Bicycle Coalition I just took a long bike ride with a 71-year-old friend of mine. He is in good health, but doesn’t have the endurance that he once had. There were opportunities for him to ride and other opportunities for him to drive a vehicle. ...
by Mark | Jul 7, 2015 | Blog
RAGBRAI is looking for RIDE RIGHT Ambassadors to help make RAGBRAI as safe as possible. Duties include helping with the RIDE RIDE Safety Meetings and Driver Safety Meetings in Sioux City on Saturday of the Expo and RIDE RIGHT Ambassadors on the road during RAGBRAI....
by Mark | Jul 6, 2015 | Blog
The children of the RAGBRAI XLIII overnight communities were invited to participate in the annual RAGBRAI Kids’ Art Contest. The contest called for students in kindergarten through fifth grade to incorporate their town’s RAGBRAI theme into colorful...
by Mark | Jul 3, 2015 | Blog
by Mark Wyatt, Iowa Bicycle Coalition Each year I have a few friends that want to ride RAGBRAI for the first time. They seek advice on training and logistics. It is really hard to prepare them for the amount of bicyclists that they will encounter. It is even more...
by Mark | Jul 2, 2015 | Blog
by Mark Wyatt, Iowa Bicycle Coalition Veteran RAGBRAI riders understand the roads used by RAGBRAI are not closed to other vehicles. You will occasionally see bikes, cars, and even large trucks on the route in either direction of travel. New riders think they have...
by Mark | Jul 1, 2015 | Blog
The daily route maps for RAGBRAI XLIII are now available for downloading. These PDFs include the route, overnight, pass-through and meeting towns, bike shop locations, distance between the towns, elevations and service times (the times that all RAGBRAI services cease...
