Happy Birthday, Grampa RAGBRAI!

10 March, 2011
Jared

We wish the happiest of birthdays to RAGBRAI co-founder, John Karras. Karras, along with Donald Kaul, founded the bicycle adventure that is known today as RAGBRAI. John still rides RAGBRAI each summer and plans to ride RAGBRAI XXXIX. Happy Birthday, Grampa RAGBRAI!

5 Comments

Sandaltan . on March 10, 2011 at 8:53 pm

Happy birthday gramps and thanks for what you started.
SFC JKL2 on March 10, 2011 at 9:02 pm

Happy Birthday John. Best wishes, and I’ll see you this summer.
karen p on March 10, 2011 at 9:08 pm

Happy birthday! Hope you are well and still cycling!
Scott Dickson on March 10, 2011 at 10:36 pm

You need to make it back this July so that we can retell stories from the 1973-79 rides.
Sheephead on March 24, 2011 at 8:56 pm

You’ve created tremendous wonderful memories for thousands! Thanks John!!!

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