48th RAGBRAI ride canceled, postponed until July 25-31, 2021

[47of74]

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Source: KCRG

Organizers for RAGBRAI on Monday announced the ride for 2020 will be canceled due to COVID-19.

The 48th annual ride had been scheduled for July 19th through the 25th. According to the organization's website, the ride will be postponed until July 25 to July 31, 2021.

"RAGBRAI takes months of planning and preparation. Based on the extreme disruption COVID-19 has had and will have on the planning, we didn’t feel it was responsible to move forward and put the safety of our riders, crew, communities, or residents of Iowa at risk," a statement said on the ride's website.

The RAGBRAI XLVIII route will remain the same for 2021 which includes Waterloo, Anamosa and Maquoketa, among others.

Read more: https://www.kcrg.com/content/news/2020-RAGBRAI-ride-canceled-postponed-until-July-25-31-2021-569785371.html

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Fuck you Donald.

If not for your dumb fuckery we could have the event this year

[ffr]

1. ?

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Is this really LBN?

[question everything]

3. Are stories about the spoiled royals?

[slumcamper]

7. Yes--just broke on NPR a bit ago.

RAGBRAI is the oldest, longest, continuous bike ride in the world. This would have been 48. A week-long ride across Iowa in late July, it routinely draws about 15000 registered riders each year from all 50 states and throughout the world. Finally, someone had the good sense to realize that might not be such a good thing...

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Still hoping for the STP.

My first year trying it, and I've been training my ass off.

[djg21]

29. I think so.

This is a huge event that is very well know to cyclists and non-cyclists alike. It brings huge amounts of revenue into Iowa. Just because you are non-plussed doesn’t mean that others here do not believe it newsworthy and breaking news. There is always the option of just electing not to open the thread. You certainly didn’t have to publicize your opinion that the thread isn’t LBN. I thank the OP. I hadn’t heard this news, and it is important to me.

[47of74]

37. It's people looking down on Iowa

Yeah we have a bunch of fucking idiots representing Iowa in the Governor’s mansion, in the state legislature, and Congress. So people look down on Iowans and act like we don’t matter.

[question everything]

2. But.. but.. Iowa does not restrict movement. Even when cases there soar

One of the problem that some participants endured was that the friendly church ladies in the stops were, well, committed Rs.

[RedSpartan]

4. My wife did this when she was 14 with her sister and father.

She still talks about how much fun it was.

[left-of-center2012]

5. What the heck is a "RAGBRAI ride" ?

And is this :
“Latest Breaking News -- Important news of national interest only” ?

[Midnight Writer]

6. Ragbrai is a massive bicycle event where thousands ride bikes across the State of Iowa.

It attracts people from around the world, just like the Boston Marathon.

I reckon if a hundred protesters at a State Capitol is Breaking News, this is as well.

[SharonAnn]

23. Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. RAGBRAI. Refers to Des Moines Register newspaper.

[slumcamper]

8. see my post above

or google it...you may be surprised!

[link:https://ragbrai.com/|

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Is this of national interest or would the Iowa group be a better place than LBN?

[47of74]

11. It is

It brings in people from all over the world so it's kind of a big deal that it got cancelled this year.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. You gave no context to folk outside of those circles. Would have been kinder to do so in OP. nt

[slumcamper]

14. Your concern has been duly noted. Thank you. n/t

[stopdiggin]

17. asked, and answered .. several times.

Yes it is breaking news (can't imagine why this so offends some)
Yes it is a fairly big deal (I'll refer to other descriptions in the string)
And, for an additional note .. it's happening in red state that has resisted much of the "shelter in place" recommendations. So .. private and civic organizations stepping up .. in the absence of political leadership.

[djg21]

31. I can't imagine why so many people who seeming are uninterested

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in the event need to waste our time with silly posts expressing their opinion that this isn’t breaking news and the post should be removed. If you aren’t interested, don’t open the thread and don’t waste bandwidth with your posts.

[SharonAnn]

24. It's of national interest, like the Boston Marathon is.

[Initech]

12. The asshole virus strikes again.

[Peacetrain]

13. Good God People... RAGBRAI is to cross country biking, what the Boston Marathon

is to running.. In the words of our next President, it is a big fu*king deal.. huge..really huge.. it stands for Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa!! it is a rolling city across Iowa.. thousands of bicyclists quickly finding out Iowa is NOT flat ..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Let me help you with some context

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213302746

The OP provided no background to clue ordinary people into his/her context.

[stopdiggin]

18. not at ALL like the post you linked to

the OP had a good deal of information AND a link to a story ...
The fact that the term RAGBRAI is not immediately identifiable to some is regrettable .. but that IS the name of the event .. kinda like Burning Man or Spring Break .. not everyone knows the when and where of all these things .. but the facts are easily uncovered! And discovering new things is part of life.

Sorry you were so hugely put upon, but .. click the damned link!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. If the OP had given ANY context in the OP of event, they would have avoided all this questioning. nt

[stopdiggin]

20. multiple complete and descriptive sentences

considerable longer (and more informative) than a lot of OP posts here .. AND a link to the complete story.

Just not buying it, dude.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Complete sentences all pointing to Iowa. And I did click through (shouldn't have to). Same thing. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

25. The OP did not mention: bikes, Iowa, whether this is professional, for charity, just for fun

so, no, it did not have "a good deal of information".

The point about "breaking news of national importance" is that the nation should have some idea already why it a sudden development is "important" to the nation.

No, it is not remotely like Burning Man or Spring Break, which are not just nationally known, but internationally. RAGBRAI has only been talked about before on DU in the Iowa and Bicycling groups.

[Peacetrain]

27. I can't believe anyone is that provincial that they have not heard of RAGBRAI..

It is literally a city that rides between the Missouri River and the Mississippi ...its is a week long in hottest part of the summer.. 10,000 bikers a day from all around the world.. its approaching 50 years now that this particular ride has been going on..

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. Is it a race? Is Spandex required? Are there repair facilities?

Electrolytes or Beer?

[Peacetrain]

32. repairs... grab that sag wagon

and always beer... my GOD the beer.. and I have not ridden it.. but I have seen it off many times.. from that D I take it you have know the Ragbrai?? My brother has ridden it 7 times.. One of my favorite cities in the world is London, because you do not need to go anywhere else to see the world.. the world lives in London.. the English are out in the burbs, but the world and all its glory is right there in London and Dublin.. well for 7 days in July the world can be found in Iowa on a bike... lots of Heartlanders too..but there is the world on 2 wheels.. something to see as they head out that first morning wave after wave after wave..

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

36. I'm not a fan of massive bike rides.

It seems there are always points of constriction, such as a narrow covered bridge, where the cyclists try to remain in the saddle at less than one mile per hour, sort of leaning on each other, until the whole mess falls down, causing beer to spill.

I think the "D" you mention is the "Old English D" of the Detroit Tigers. It doesn't mean I know anything of Dublin, Des Moines, or Djabouti. I have visited London, an amazing place, but it was over fifty years ago. There may have been changes since then.

I hope we've gotten inoculated against CV19 by the time of next year's Ragbrai. I would not dream of riding all the way across Iowa, but we have some shorter rides in MI, punctuated by beer. Like Iowa, Michigan is deceptively not flat.

[Peacetrain]

38. If you get a chance, you really should come and ride a day or two with that crew

Honestly jabotb I think maybe 2000 are registered and the other 8000 or so ride a part of the trip.. and you are probably best to start at the western end by the Missouri... that is what you do.. you dip your tire in the Missouri.. and ride the to the Mississippi and dip your tire in the Mississippi.. the land between two rivers.. but that first part is much flatter, I used to live in Western Iowa and always got up at 4 am or so to to where ever they were going to start and set up my chair and coffee and watch the riders go by..

That D the calligraphy D used to be the one they used with the Register.. I thought maybe you were one of the Register reporters..

Oh London has changed.. It really is very International.. Love the city..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. I'm not a cyclist. Most people on DU aren't. I live in Canada. Most people don't live in Iowa.

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I lived in the USA for many years. I never heard of this ride.

[47of74]

26. I'm just putting the people who are looking down at the cancellation on...

...full ignore. It’s useless to argue with them. They just want to look down at Iowa and Iowans.

[Peacetrain]

28. I think they jumped too quick, and got embarrased that they were so clueless

and are now are digging in that is it not newsworthy

My brother has ridden it 7 times now..

[Bernardo de La Paz]

34. Nobody's looking down. Most of us never heard of it & didn't know of its significance. Now we do

It might be easy to assume everyone knows about big Iowan events and perhaps we should. But it is not a good assumption. It is certainly simpler to provide some context on the assumption that there might be some who don't. Neither the article nor the summary provided context. The article was from a local news outlet and was speaking to Iowans.

Nobody dissed Iowa or Iowans in this thread. So I don't know where you are digging up that grievance. Past slights made you sensitive? It happens, but hasn't happened in this thread.

Aren't we all here to help inform each of us? I thought so but perhaps I am mistaken.

[Calista241]

35. RAGBRAI is awesome. The rolling hills in eastern Iowa suck ass.

My legs still get numb and bother me when i think about it.

[Peacetrain]

39. ROFL...

[Omaha Steve]

40. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

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