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roadside boys

the roadside boys edited this to be an ad for them....i took it out Robograndma 19:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)roboG19:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Someone needs to comment on Lance Armstrong's participation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.66.231.1 (talk • contribs)

Lance on Ragbrai

I think it's awesome that Lance Armstrong rode on Ragbrai. Somebody once called Ragbrai "The Bastardized Tour de France." Not any more! It will be exciting to see if Lance's celebrity friends join the ride next year. If so, the front of the pack will never be the same! But I doubt if Lance and his buds will be at the back of the pack, waking at the crack of 10:30, drinking the brunch of champions at world headquarters (Casey's), spending the hottest and rainiest parts of the days bellied up to the great tiny bars along the route, and riding under the stars. They'll be missing out on the best flavors of Ragbrai...-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.103.54.225 (talk) 19:12, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lance brought his special coach for the 2007 edition of RAGBRAI. So he didn't sleep in a tent under the stars.

In fact, in Cedar Falls his coach was parked next to the special coach advertising the "drink of Al Capone", known as Templeton Rye. He did belly up for a beer or two in several small hamlets across Iowa. He also enjoyed a six pack of home brews from Team White Bus, who have their own home brewed label for RAGBRAI "White Bus Dark Beer". ^[1]-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.43.253.135 (talk) 19:37, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

^ http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=3Tzut&page_id=50932&v=83 retrieved March, 2009.

reads like an ad

the Ragbrai teams section reads like an ad and is unencyclopedic. For instance, the examples given for team names reads like a shout-out. Some good info here, but needs a going over. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.186.177.44 (talk) 02:00, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is a bicycle ride, not a race.

I have ridden RAGBRAI many times. RAGBRAI is never a race, it is always referred to as a ride. In fact, many RAGBRAI riders go out of their way to explain that RAGBRAI is a ride, NOT A RACE!

The sentence:

Recently, within the state, the ride has gained the name "The Great Race Across Iowa."

should be removed from this article.

66.43.253.135 (talk) 19:28, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Obsolete references

The urls for the first two References are no longer accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.245.201.60 (talk) 03:17, 21 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Details of specific events

Regarding this edit, I have removed the subsections for each individual event. Wikipedia is not a directory, and this information was outside of scope, and inconsistently sourced. I considered reformatting this as a table, to preserve date information, but this seemed only slightly better, but not good enough. That table is collapsed below, for future reference, but it would still need a lot of tedious work before it would be usable. I also looked at a list, but this was even worse. It's just indescriminate information without any reliable sources.

Since very, very little of this information has reliable, independent sources, it's not clear which parts belong, and which don't, and more importantly, it's not clear that this is even accurate. Any attempt to list specific details should include a reliable source. Ideally, these would also be independent sources. Grayfell (talk) 02:30, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

name	date	notes
The Great Six-Day Bicycle Ride	1973
SAGBRAI	August 4-10, 1974
RAGBRAI III	August 3-9, 1975	First with name "RAGBRAI"
RAGBRAI IV	August 1-7, 1976
RAGBRAI V	July 31-August 6, 1977
RAGBRAI VI	July 30-August 5, 1978
RAGBRAI VII	July 29-August 4, 1979^[1]
RAGBRAI VIII	July 27-August 2, 1980
RAGBRAI IX	July 26-August 1, 1981
RAGBRAI X	July 25-31, 1982
RAGBRAI XI	July 24-30, 1983
RAGBRAI XII	July 22-28, 1984
RAGBRAI XIII	July 21-27, 1985	Longest RAGBRAI, at 540 miles (870 km).^[2]
RAGBRAI XIV	July 20-26, 1986
RAGBRAI XV	July 19-25, 1987
RAGBRAI XVI	July 24-30, 1988
RAGBRAI XVII	July 23-29, 1989^[3]
RAGBRAI XVIII	July 22-28, 1990
RAGBRAI XIX	July 21-27, 1991
RAGBRAI XX	July 19-25, 1992
RAGBRAI XXI	July 25-31, 1994
RAGBRAI XXIII	July 23-29, 1995
RAGBRAI XXIV	July 21-27, 1996
RAGBRAI XXV	July 20-26, 1997
RAGBRAI XXVI	July 19-25, 1998
RAGBRAI XXVII	July 25-31, 1999^[4]
RAGBRAI XXVIII	July 23-29, 2000
RAGBRAI XXIX	July 22-28, 2001
RAGBRAI XXX	July 21-27, 2002
RAGBRAI XXXI	July 20-26, 2003
RAGBRAI XXXII	July 25-31, 2004
RAGBRAI XXXIII	July 14-30, 2005
RAGBRAI XXXIV	July 23-29, 2006
RAGBRAI XXXV	July 22-28, 2007
RAGBRAI XXXVI	July 20-26, 2008
RAGBRAI XXXVII	July 19-25, 2009
RAGBRAI XXXVIII	July 25-31, 2010 ^[5]
RAGBRAI XXXIX	July 24-30, 2011
RAGBRAI XL	July 22-28, 2012
RAGBRAI XLI	July 21-27, 2013
RAGBRAI	July 20-26, 2014
RAGBRAI XLIII	July 19-25, 2015	Introduced a gravel loop.
RAGBRAI XLIV	July 24-30, 2016	Introduced a memorial "Mile of Silence"^[6]^[7]
RAGBRAI XLV	July 23-29, 2017
RAGBRAI XLVI	July 22-28, 2018
RAGBRAI XLVII	July 21-27, 2019^[8]

References

^ "RAGBRAI History - 1970s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ Cite error: The named reference RAGBRAI history - 1980s was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "RAGBRAI History - 1980s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ "RAGBRAI History - 1990s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ "RAGBRAI History - 2000s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
^ "RAGBRAI adds 'Mile of Silence' to opening day". desmoinesregister.com. June 29, 2016.
^ "RAGBRAI Adds "Mile of Silence" to Remember Riders We Have Lost". bikeiowa.com. July 20, 2016.
^ "RAGBRAI History - 2010s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

"the largest bike-touring event in the world.[2]" Are we sure?

It is a bold assumption. Out of the top of my head, I would mention the Semaine fédérale internationale de cyclotourisme as a larger one, at least according to — Wikipédia fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaine_fédérale_internationale_de_cyclotourisme 2001:4647:9466:0:F0F8:C82E:9E2E:2638 (talk) 13:35, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Photo

Is this really the best, most descriptive photo we can find? I think one showing a group of people actually riding during ragbrai would be more useful. I can look through my photos to see if I have one that might work. Gravel for breakfast (talk) 20:44, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In the section about deaths, the paragraph about plane riders should be moved to a separate section.

It talks about two plane riders and how they both walked away from the accident. It does not mention if they later died, or if anyone else died as a part of the crash. Therefore, it should not be in the section about deaths unless such details are found. Found-Verdict (talk) 03:43, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?o=3Tzut&page_id=50932&v=83 retrieved March, 2009.

[2] "RAGBRAI History - 1970s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[RAGBRAI_history_-_1980s-3] Cite error: The named reference RAGBRAI history - 1980s was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[4] "RAGBRAI History - 1980s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[5] "RAGBRAI History - 1990s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[6] "RAGBRAI History - 2000s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

[RAGBRAI_adds_'Mile_of_Silence'_to_opening_day-7] "RAGBRAI adds 'Mile of Silence' to opening day". desmoinesregister.com. June 29, 2016.

[RAGBRAI_Adds_“Mile_of_Silence”_to_Remember_Riders_We_Have_Lost-8] "RAGBRAI Adds "Mile of Silence" to Remember Riders We Have Lost". bikeiowa.com. July 20, 2016.

[9] "RAGBRAI History - 2010s". RAGBRAI. RAGBRAI. Retrieved 15 August 2019.

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