Its Getting Close To RAGBRAI Time

Its that time again for the Cycling Pigs to ride again. For those not in the know the Cycling Pigs is a riding group, a bicycle riding group started a little over a year ago by a few brave souls for the purpose of organizing a bicycle trip through Iowa. The Registers Annual Great Ride Across Iowa or RAGBRAI is set to start in another month. This is its thirty sixth running of the ride across Iowa with numbers over ten thousand rides most days. You can read more about the ride at the RAGBRAI web site.

Its only 4 weeks until the planes leave for Iowa or rather Omaha Nebraska where we fly in. Omaha is the staging area for another great Ride Across Iowa. This year as we did last, we will be hosted by the Pork Belly Venture group. This is a large sag wagon support group that includes tents and fun stuff for the entire week. Real fun stuff like the Shower Thingy. Check it out.

As many of you know the recent rains have flooded out central sections of Iowa and part of the intended ride route. I do not think that any of these terrible floods will effect the ride even though it has effected thousands of residents of Iowa. The damaged homes will not have had time to receive full repair when the ride begins and many Iowans will be still struggling with the aftermath of the heavy rains and flooding that these 500 years water levels have brought. We will spend a much money as we can when going through these areas so maybe that could help cheer up some spirits. We are looking into some possible donation sites right now so that more help could be channeled into the right direction.

This year the Cycling Pigs group has grown. Last year there were four, this year we total eight. The Cycling Pigs has doubled in one year. Thats a pretty good average. So we will see how things go. More to follow soon.

Did you check out the Shower Thingy?