I pick the one with the hottest women called the great drunken bike ride and orgy.
I pick whichever has Christopher Cross booked.
I pick the one with the hottest women called the great drunken bike ride and orgy.
I pick whichever has Christopher Cross booked.
They are ride organizing company right? They do other things besides RAGBRAI.
Agreed. I suspect there will be a play in the courts about this....I'm pretty confident the RAGBRAI staff worked FULL TIME on RAGBRAI and events associated with RAGBRAI.
I have to believe there is much more to it....but that might have been the final straw.
It depends. Maybe having two rival rides thins the crowd out for both and makes the roads and ride a bit more navigable. Or maybe the Reg just shutters RAGBRAI and there's still one bike ride across Iowa, it's just called something different. Whatever the case, it's all on the Register. They're doing a fine job of digging their own grave.
Then go read something else. It's an interesting story about a pretty big Iowa event.
I’m hoping the Register just gives up and leaves it as one ride
Just spit-balling here, but have to think these folks were looking for a way to start their own ride and are capitalizing on timing, media coverage, etc. Probably way less overhead cost if the ride, registration all goes through them.
You tell me.
It "was" an interesting story. The Register is a bunch of idiots who made a bad PR move. Carson handled it very professionally, admitted he made a mistake and that he didnt condone his behavior when he was 16. That should have been the end of the story, and it actually was for both parties involved, but the public has made this a complete dumpster fire now.
Btw, nobody outside of our state cares about this, and if they do they think Iowa is a bunch of idiots.
Our group is already decided on doing TJ’s event.
That didn’t take long.
Seriously. This should have barely been a story.
The register did a rather routine background search. Probably just ran a tool that pulled all his tweets, plenty of ways to do that. They included a line about what he'd said in a column that was overwhelmingly positive and meshed the negative tweets in language that indicated this isnt how he is today.
But people had to freak the **** out as if the editor off the register went out and murdered someone. Seriously, this isnt a story. Anyone still freaking out about it or demanding blood from the register for something that should be almost a complete non-issue is, quite frankly, an idiot.
Yawn, more "cancel culture", the exact same thing they accused the paper of doing. Lets just all get together and boycott everyone and everything so its even.
I've been hearing for a couple of years (from someone who works closely with the committee) that RAGBRAI as we know it was likely going to end soon. Potentially after an upcoming anniversary year. The logistics of trying to provide for 30,000 who demand water, shelter, power for their iphones, etc is just becoming too difficult to manage. Obviously details were not known at the time but ideas had been floated. They and I speculated that it may be broken up into a couple different rides. One that is more the "VIP" you pay us for the organization, logistics, etc and another which will be more of the old school self supported type ride.
That being said, I'm guessing that there was at least SOME sort of idea of what they would like to see happen. The Carson King situation was likely the catalyst to put this together so quickly. While I'm not surprised to see this, the timing was unexpected.
I boycott you. Go away now?
Btw, nobody outside of our state cares about this, and if they do they think Iowa is a bunch of idiots.