Ragbri
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Topic: Ragbri
Posted By: 200Tom1
Subject: Ragbri
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 10:08am
| Coming into town today. Thousands of people on bicycles. 99% of them completely ignore stop signs, red lights, etc. Dozens of kybos lining the alleys around square. All were locked up on Saturday. Hope someone remembered to unlock them today. One total pain in the backside for 95% of the local people and businesses. |
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 1:19pm
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Never heard of a kybo.......... had to google it........... = Outhouse !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 2:01pm
| Sorry, was a name brand for them around here that sorta stuck. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 2:51pm
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And what's a Ragbri? ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 3:04pm
| Toms been putting all kinds of interesting stuff lately,,, |
Posted By: thendrix
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 3:29pm
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They do that crap once a year here. Clog up all the roads for almost a full week. Funny part is, it's put on by the county but nobody bothered to come ask the people in the area. They just showed up a couple of years ago and have been coming back ever since ------------- "Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 4:33pm
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RAGBRAI is an acronym and registered trademark for the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, which is a non-competitive bicycle ride organized by The Des Moines Register, which goes across the U.S. state of Iowa ......... GEES... I learned TWO new words today !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 6:58pm
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By blood pressure goes up every time I see a bicycle on the road/street! they run red lights/stop signs , cut a weave in traffic, hold up traffic, etc. I had one ride for four city block right by my window, two or three inches from my truck cursing at the top of his lungs because I instinctively blew my horn at him when he passed on my right in traffic, and dodged right in front of me, across to the left lane, causing to spike my brakes! there is an area between me and the 'burg that has a bicycle/walking trail from a recycled RR bed, running parallel to a secondary road. but where do the bicycle clubs ride......you got it, 3-4 wide and 20-30 deep on the road!!! aaaaarrrrrrgggh! add insult to injury, the idiot mayor of Pittsburgh close one lane of a lot of the streets for dedicated bicycle use.....of which one would be exaggerating if they claimed to see 20-30 bikes a day on them. meantime traffic is clogged to one lane and whow wee whow whow the confusion at intersections that makes ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 7:31pm
BRAG (bicycle ride across Georgia) used our church parking lot for a rest stop years ago. They used mostly backroads and had a police escort. They had a crew come ahead and set up a tent with snacks and water. We had a table set up with gospel tracts and bimonthly devotional guides if they wanted them and we let them use the fellowship hall restrooms. They were courteous and orderly and what few pieces of litter they left their crew picked up before they departed, wasn't even enough to fill a Wally World bag. I was pleasantly surprised.  A couple of years later a few of them used the carport of the house at the farm to get out of a rain storm and they left me a thank you note for the use of the carport.------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 8:57pm
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They put bicycle lanes on some streets here. They are the BUSIEST streets in town. WTH!?! Why not the SAFE side streets?!?! Cops won't even look at em when they run lights, stop signs, etc. No money in it..... When I was a kid, you had to register your bike (a one time $1 fee) and were given a license sticker that had to be put on it AT THE POLICE STATION. They said it was for if someone stole your bike, they could find the owner. They don't have to even register them anymore now. Sorry for my rant,,,,,,,,there are a FEW lawful, courteous people on bicycles out there, but VERY FEW.... ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 9:41pm
| Hubert, count your blessings. It seems your bicyclists are an exception the norm. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 9:49pm
| both the "stockholders do the ragbri each year. (100 points if you get them with your door)! |
Posted By: iowallis
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 9:52pm
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Had them come through my town a few years ago. Neighbor asked if her biking friends (about 10-12 people) could camp in my side yard as I have a triple lot. They were quiet by 10:00pm and gone by 9:00am the next morning. They didn't leave a trace that they were there except for the matted down grass where the tents were. That being said I heard the "public" campgrounds like at the youth softball diamonds were a mess with the trash they left. Cities/towns love being an overnight stop as it brings in a ton of money. |
Posted By: 200Tom1
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 10:48pm
| Ya they sure didn't appreciate my remarks on the local facebook page. They can't handle the truth. At least they wait till the corn is tall and all tasseled out. Talk about public bathrooms. |
Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2019 at 11:04pm
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Please keep them in Iowa ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 4:49am
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Round here, they use the worst roads, the most. Alla the stuff mentioned, 30 to a pack, won't let traffic pass, run stop signs, don't pay road tax... Bout 25 years ago, I usedta drive a '73 chebby, wif 2 over the bed toolboxes, hadda 4" vise on the right rear door of 1 of the boxes, if you hit a bump, on one of them back roads, just right, the door would flip down, and make a resounding bang, as the door reached the end of its cable stops... Passed a herd of citiots, then 1 more, at the top of the hill, heading down, and the vise deployed itself, beside the head of that last fool, and I watched as he headed down the ravine, ass over tin cup, to land in the stream, at the bottom! As I hadn't touched him, I just went on about my business, and kept drivin. I did, however have an inscrutable smile pasted on my face, for several hours, though....
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 5:11am
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Just had similar here this week. Traffic stopped waiting on them to cross. Town was a mess for two days. Now they built Mountain bike trails out here west of town so there’s always some out here on the hwy. I’ve seen some close calls on the twisters with 18 wheelers rounding a curve and there they are in the middle of the road.. Next month we get Bikes Blues and BBQ. Half a million motorcycles converge here and that’s all we will hear and see for a week. |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 6:36am
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There was one of them rides by my place last Sunday. Not more than 5 miles from my place a dimwit peddle pushing loser blew a stop sign at the bottom of a hill into a main highway. She won’t ever do that again. I heard from someone on the rescue crew they used a scoop shovel to clean up the mess into a body bag. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 8:47am
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Folks, Hey I just started bike riding again several weeks ago to try to get some strength built up in these old chicken legs! Should I stop? Yea I do run the stop sign at the end of the road. Haven't seen a car there at the same time since I started this old man riding thing! We just went through Roar on the Shore motorcycle week around here. Centered about 30 miles from us we don't seem to have a issue yet. The spoon thing sound very painful! BTW my old bike is orange! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 10:07am
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My 12 speed is hanging on the shed wall and suspect it will stay there.........just to be safe. For a couple more decades.😜 ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: TimNearFortWorth
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 10:45am
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Years ago I had a room mate in Loveland CO that worked for HP and was a bike fanatic, had one of the early Kevlar USPS team bikes that reportedly cost 10 grand. Would constantly regale me with horror stories about motorists that did not respect bicyclists, especially during long races and how they had every right to be on the same roads. Usually good for one or two a month getting pasted by cars in or around Boulder and after one particular tirade about bicyclist's "rights", I told him it was his choice but guy on a bicycle vs. a car or pickup was obvious and nobody would listen to him after they scraped him off the road in pieces. Somehow felt they had the right to blow through stop signs and red lights. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 10:56am
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I thought we had the market cornered for idiots that stop in the middle of the road just over the crest of a hill or around a blind corner. I think us dumb people in cars may have got the word out, as a big Memorial Day weekend bike ride has gotten smaller the last years. Cally has a race called AMGEN ,copy of the big French bike races that goes for days. The organizers sweet talk cities into paying to have race come through town  . Paso Robles got in as the finish line of day x?. It didn't work so good. Loaded the bikes up within a hour and zipped off to the town were tomorrows start was. They got all the hotel and restaurant business. Other local towns have not got smart and still pay stupid money to be part of the mess.Now Sugarmaker hopefully your ears still work ? You hear a truck or tractor coming up behind you maybe time to get off in the ditch. And I beat you don't do your resting out in the middle of the road where the shade is the best. Good luck on getting your exercise and staying safe at the same time.We have a state law, motor vehicles need to stay 3 feet for a bike. So one day a idiot on a low rider bike (that is even harder to see) had a stick he was holding out to let you know where his space was. He is lucky that none of my shameless friends was riding along
they might have pushed on his stick. |
Posted By: farmboy520
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 12:37pm
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Around here I've seen some bicycle groups every so often. It is the normal people around town that usually cause the most trouble. When I was growing up, for 4-H I took a bicycle course and it told you all the things that bicyclists are suppose to do like follow the rules of the road. Do you think many other people know that? Very few by the way I see people ride their bicycles. ------------- On the farm: Agco Allis 9695, 7060, 7010, R66, Farmall H, and Farmall F20 (Great Grandpa's) |
Posted By: 200Tom1
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 4:09pm
Thank goodness these folks are gone. Only heard of 1 guy they ran off the road. Of course they don't ever stop. 
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Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 4:19pm
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I got sent to Winterset today. I'm with Tom, what a pain in the backside. They took up the entire highway, forcing oncoming traffic off on the berm. Years ago they came through Colfax and what a mess they left. The city council invited them to never come back. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: Wayne180d
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2019 at 5:46pm
| I've got an expensive 12 speed when I decided bile riding was good for you and I don't think it has 50 miles on it in 40 years. Car is much safer and quicker. |
Posted By: Mr.P
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2019 at 7:59am
| My wife has couple of friends that rode in one a couple of years ago and a guy in a car plowed into the group the where riding in put them in the hospital for a few weeks they haven't rode since. The sad thing is the had some kids someone had to watch while the recover. But I'm with you I get tired of them taking the hole road up. |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 24 Jul 2019 at 10:36am
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Ray, I am old and just doing this to try to maybe get a little exercise, which I have never really exercised, just try to keep busy. I will keep alert, a stationary bike at home might be safer. I am not going to the gym to work out! Bunch of old folks that cant get off the couch. Hey I am old and on the couch! Time to go paint some parts! I dont plan to paint my sneakers silver either! I wear my work boots on the 3 mile costing event! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 26 Jul 2019 at 6:22pm
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Inconsiderate fools remind me of the Wally Byan Caravan (air-stream travel trailers) we had in Northern Michigan in summer of 1966. Arrogant and sarcastic fools. I was driving truck for the local feed mill. Every time I see an Air-stream trailer my B/P goes up. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2019 at 12:23pm
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Good time to check , was trying to say if your courteous and get over and let traffic go by your not like the road hog bicyclists. But on some of the country roads by me just not much room for a bicycle. Wiener a jerk on the road is a jerk no matter what they are driving. Just some groups of convince
have way more than others. |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2019 at 8:38pm
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Now that the ride is over the local news is reporting some of the less complimentary news. It seems there have been riders stopping and pooping and peeing in peoples yards. What happened to going about 6 rows in the corn? ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2019 at 5:57pm
Somehow it just seems bicycle people think they are more important than the rest of us.It seemed when the one 3 day cruse the countryside bike thing was here and popular I always needed to move my 14 foot cut swather 10 miles down the road,at it's turtle pace of 8 mph. One time a bike laying in the big weeds with a ditch below,at the blazing speed I had time to look in the ditch. All at once I spot somebody swatting in the weeds in the ditch. Not to much hidden if you were in anything taller than car.
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Brian Jasper co. Ia wrote:Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2019 at 1:02am
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This year was my son's 4th RAGBRAI... it was my 20th. Most of the comments I've read here, are entirely unfounded. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2019 at 1:13am
This is false. RAGBRAI has been through Colfax 14 times, and were on the very FIRST (1973), with the last pass through being in 2011. They've registered request every year since 1984. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |