In a statement posted Tuesday to RAGBRAI's social media accounts, Juskiewicz said he was splitting with RAGBRAI over the Register's coverage of racist tweets that Carson King, an Iowa State University football fan who raised about $3 million for the University of Iowa's children's hospital, made when he was a high ...
Entire RAGBRAI staff resigns over Register's handling of Carson King story. DES MOINES, Iowa (KTIV) – A rift over the Des Moines Register's handling of the Carson King story has led to the resignation of the entire staff of the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa from the newspaper, effective immediately.
REGISTRATION IS FREE AND NOW OPEN! We wanted to inform you that we will be modifying Iowa's Ride to a weekend event that will take place in Eldora, Iowa on July 16-18, 2021. Iowa's Ride Weekender will now take place in Eldora with camping and evening fun on Friday and Saturday (July 16-17). ...
RAGBRAI is an acronym and registered trademark for the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, which is a noncompetitive bicycle ride organized by The Des Moines Register. ... First held in 1973, RAGBRAI is the largest bike-touring event in the world.
The 2020 Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa — pedaling from July 19 to 25 — will start in Le Mars, the Ice Cream Capital of the World, and end in Clinton, home of the LumberKings minor league baseball team.
RAGBRAI is limited to an estimated 8,500 week-long riders and 1,500 daily riders.
RAGBRAI is limited to approximately 8,500 week-long riders and 1,500 day riders. Entries can exceed the number of riders allowed, so a random computer lottery takes place after all of the entries are entered in the computer.
In total, RAGBRAI 2021 will travel 426 miles with 11,481 feet of climb, which is the 16th flattest route RAGBRAI has had since its start. RAGBRAI riders who registered for 2020 could receive a refund after the 2020 ride was canceled or hold their registration over for this year.
Clocking in at 427 miles with 14,735 feet of climb, the 47th edition of this roving cycling party is the eighth easiest in route history. The 2019 ride is also the sixth shortest and eighth flattest. The full route, including pass-through towns and vehicle directions, is expected to be released in March.
In the beginning, when a few friends got together for a casual bike ride across Iowa in 1973, no one imagined that a tradition would be born, let alone that it would become the longest, largest and oldest recreational bicycle touring event in the world.
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