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RAGBRAI pro tips from a 7x rider
RAGBRAI 2021. Picture: Linh Ta/Axios
đź‘‹ Linh right here. The RAGBRAI route is out and it is official that bikers will undergo Des Moines for the primary time in a decade this summer time.
Driving the information: This shall be my seventh 12 months using throughout the state of Iowa.
- Fascinated by becoming a member of me this 12 months? There’s loads of guides, particularly for first-time riders.
🚲 My very own suggestions:
- If that is your first RAGBRAI, the coaching information is invaluable. The 2023 version comes out quickly, however here is final 12 months’s model for reference.
- Tools does make a distinction. In the event you’re using the entire week, a street bike shall be a lot simpler than a hybrid.
- My must-eats: Mr. Porkchop, Beekmans and any native Chinese language restaurant in an in a single day city.
- Some folks do not pay or “bandit” on RAGBRAI. Do not try this. For one, when you wreck, RAGBRAI will decide up each you and your bike.
- And all the time cease to pet the animals.
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