New Episode of the JustGoBike Podcast! Episode 151: ” Black Lives Matter, Birds, and a Bicycle” Host: Kyle Munson
This week on the podcast: Kyle Munson caught up with Scott Edwards, a Harvard professor on a Surly who’s cycling across the country for his bucket list, and because black ...
New Episode of the JustGoBike Podcast! Episode 150: “Virtual RAGBRAI Recap” Host: Murphology
Kathy Murphy caught up with a few Virtual RAGBRAI riders to ask them, “literally how much fun did you have last week?” From Iowa’s Largest Frying Pan, to an Old ...
Did you guess the RAGBRAI XLVIII meeting towns?
Great job historians! Here are all the trivia questions and answers from the weeklong Guess the meeting town trivia. The RAGBRAI XLVIII map has been updated to include the seven meeting ...
Making ‘Beard Pop’: How a beloved Iowa cover band became The Pork Tornadoes
By Sierra A. Porter The Pork Tornadoes are so Iowan it hurts. The self-described “Band of Iowa,” the four-man group falls into the equally self-created category of Beard Pop — a hipper, ...
These favorite RAGBRAI recipes will get you in the spirit of the ride
By Sarah Kay LeBlanc The week that should have been punctuated by the sound of thousands of wheels spinning into the Mississippi River instead ended without the traditional joyous exclamations of jubilee. Although ...
Pie-ynasty established!: Team Register takes Golden Roller at Rhubarb Rumble V
By Courtney Crowder YOUR HOME, U.S.A. — The competitors formed ranks not at folding tables on a small Iowa main street, but in Zoom windows. They sported not full Lycra suits and ...
‘A silver lining’: RAGBRAI Director Dieter Drake joins day rides in Iowa despite cancellation
By Philip Joens CORALVILLE — As Team Spare Tire pedaled through a hazy drizzle, carving a path from Coralville to Solon, RAGBRAI Director Dieter Drake was about 200 miles east of where ...
‘It’s well-deserved recognition’: See Des Moines’ new RAGBRAI sculpture
By Sierra A. Porter John Karras and Donald Kaul went on a now-famous bike ride in August of 1973. It was an excursion that would bring Iowans together to launch the world’s biggest bicycling event: the Register’s ...
RAGBRAI and RAYGUN team up on 2020 shirts, donate proceeds to Iowa charities
By Katie Akin Need a new jersey for your 2020 RAGBRAI team of one? The normally in-person bicycle ride, which was canceled in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is selling three new T-shirt options to raise ...
‘The next best thing’: Virtual RAGBRAI is hitting the road — online
By Courtney Crowder RAGBRAI co-founder John Karras called me the other day with a question. “Courtney, how do you ride your bike online?” I quickly parsed through whether to explain the Peloton phenomena, ...
