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...
by Mark | Jul 1, 2015 | Blog
RAGBRAI announced today its partnership with ICEdot to provide emergency identification and notification services to this year’s participants. Now in its 43rd year, the week-long bicycle touring event will offer riders the ability to register with ICEdot, allowing...
by Mark | Jun 29, 2015 | Blog
by Coach David Ertl In the past couple of blogs I’ve been dealing with the 4 H’s of RAGBRAI. This blog covers the final two, Heat and Humidity. I will deal with these together because they are related and should be dealt with in much the same. One thing is for sure,...
