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Orange City welcomes RAGBRAI riders, and a giant front wheel
ORANGE CITY, Ia. — Thomas Hawkins maneuvered through a crowd pushing a light blue 52-inch penny-farthing. The 61-year-old Philadelphian said insanity drove him to decide to bike across Iowa on it. “It...
View ArticleRAGBRAI Mile of Silence: Riders remember those killed or injured
GRANVILLE, Ia — Stereos were silenced and conversations quieted Sunday as cyclists passed through the Mile of Silence during the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. The mile, which...
View ArticleIowan is back on the RAGBRAI route, 4 decades later
PRIMGHAR, Ia. – Growing up in Iowa City, Jim Hussey’s paper routes helped shape him as an avid newspaper reader. Stories in the Des Moines Register informed him of the paper’s first bike ride across...
View ArticleAfter a brief escape, Bacon the piglet is back at RAGBRAI ‘swine cuddles’ tent
WEST BEND, Ia. — Bacon was the piglet that (almost) got away. One of two piglets in the Northwest Iowa Badgers baseball club’s “swine cuddles” tent was apprehended after an escape attempt in West Bend,...
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Britt shows its hobo heritage for RAGBRAI riders
BRITT, Ia. — Leanne Castillo is the honorary queen of the hobos. The 84-year-old oil portrait artist has been painting each year’s hobo king and queen in her town, the “hobo capitol of the world,”...
View ArticleRAGBRAI in a wheelchair on a longboard? Erik Kondo says no problem.
GARNER, Ia. — Riding a longboard while in a wheelchair, Erik Kondo stands out among cyclists on the route of the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. He sits, strapped in the chair, and...
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RAGBRAI announces 2020 route: Annual cycling event will pass through these...
After a downright frosty January, talk of ice cream sundaes, lakeside camping and baseball games conjured summer memories as RAGBRAI announced its 2020 route through north-central Iowa Saturday night....
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RAGBRAI start marks milestone in cyclist's recovery from accident that killed...
Jay Ustruck has visualized pedaling the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa throughout months of recovery from skull, rib, pelvic and vertebral fractures and internal bleeding. Ustruck,...
View Article'It's well-deserved recognition': See Des Moines' new RAGBRAI sculpture
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 Annual...
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Making ‘Beard Pop’: How a beloved Iowa cover band became The Pork Tornadoes
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, more Top 40-focused Dad Rock. Four...
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