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Dieter Drake, ride director, announces the towns that were to host RAGBRAI in summer 2020. Those same towns will now be hosts in 2021. Des Moines Register

With 10,000 riders descending on small-town Iowa’s roads, businesses and town squares, social distancing is nearimpossible during the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, better known by its acronym, RAGBRAI.

Most years, the joy of being one in this merry mess of humanity on two wheels is reason enough for riders to risk saddle sores and sunburns for a weeklong adventure through Iowa’s cornfields and city centers.

But 2020 is not most years. Coronavirus has changed nearly every facet of life, forcing homes to become ad hoc offices, schools andbusinesses to close and beloved annual events to delay or cancel.

There will be no RAGBRAI this summer, itsorganizers announced Monday, marking the first year since its start in 1973 thatbikers haven’t pedaled their way from the Missouri to the Mississippi in Iowa’s July heat to take part in what's believed to be the oldest, largest and longestrecreational bicycletouringevent in the world.


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