RAGBRAI is the equivalent of running across alligator backs to cross a swamp. It's exhilarating, demanding, provocative and inspiring. Twenty thousand loose cannons, lone wolves, hard cases and cold cases gather at the Missouri River. Then it's a contest within — we all push on one-seater, two-seater, three- and four-seat bikes and some inventions that have wheels, chains and pain. It's a wheel, chain and pain pump across Iowa. The Munsters and Elvis have done the tour.
Bike Iowa. None greater, none older, none as true to childhood's dream.