Beer ride: Microbrews catch up on RAGBRAI

Bob Wagner, operations manager at Backpocket Brewing Co. serves an IPA at the brewery in Coralville, IA on Thursday, May 15, 2014.(Photo: Iowa City Press-Citizen file photo) RAGBRAI has a reputation for being awash in light beer from corporate breweries. Yet more...

Top 10 things we’ll remember about RAGBRAI XLII

Memories of the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa tend to melt into one continuous blur of hills and pork and sweaty spandex. And after 42 years, each ride can seem pretty much like the one before — except when they don’t. The...

Conquered: What cyclists defeated to finish RAGBRAI

GUTTENBERG, Ia. – I was happy to help Brett and Brittany of Team Spawn — they pedaled a tandem Saturday as I trudged up the second gigantic hill out of Garber on RAGBRAI XLII’s roller-coaster day, topographically speaking. “This guy walking is passing us!”...

RAGBRAI couple from Colorado unafraid of Iowa hills

Dave and Kathi Dibbern of Auroroa, Colo., pause for a snack in Garber on the final day of RAGBRAI 2014. (Kyle Munson/The Register) Dave and Kathi Dibbern perched themselves on a tree stump Saturday in Garber, the final pass-through town before RAGBRAI’s finish...