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Another way to do a budget tour is on an event ride. These go annually to nearly every state and several countries. The rides, like July's 500-mile RAGBRAI (the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa), with more than 8,000 participants, and August's 300-mile Maine coastal tour, with only about 65 riders, take their groups over highly scenic terrain. A week on a bike, including camping and some food, could cost as little...
Avid bicyclists enter the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, better known as "Ragbrai," to enjoy Iowa hospitality, 10 cents lemonade, and the excellent local bratwurst. Babbitt came to peddle himself to Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses are the first major test of the 1988 presidential campaign. The Arizona Governor, whose successes are little known east of the Rocky Mountain states, needs all the early recognition...
...would pump away a sweltering midsummer week in Iowa, when beaches and lakes and Laker beckon? Just about anyone, according to TIME'S Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, who monitored the cornbelt caravan, part of it on a borrowed ten-speed Gitane bike. The Ragbrai army, he reports, comes from all over the U.S. and from every way of life and income bracket. On the road, its members fall into five loose categories...
...Amiable Amateurs, who ride bikes year round but see the Ragbrai as the big annual adventure and stamina test...
...Handlebar Hedonists, to whom Ragbrai is a week-long holiday on spokes, a beer-guzzling and mate-catching challenge. On both scores, they seemed to make out quite well...