And looking at their website it seems that they've been planning it for quite a while. At first glance it sure looks like the organizers have left the Register high and dry with not much time to recover and still get the 2020 ride put together.
RAGBRAI Organizers Split from Register
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And looking at their website it seems that they've been planning it for quite a while. At first glance it sure looks like the organizers have left the Register high and dry with not much time to recover and still get the 2020 ride put together.
It won’t be the same. No reason it should go down that way, but that’s how it goes.
RAGBRAI is dead... its a sad day.
It will now be called: The Carson King Iowa State Gameday Busch Light Stead Family Hospital Great Ride Across Iowa.
CKISGBLSFHGRAI has a great ring to it.
It will now be called: The Carson King Iowa State Gameday Busch Light Stead Family Hospital Great Ride Across Iowa.
CKISGBLSFHGRAI has a great ring to it.
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.
I’m hoping the Register just gives up and leaves it as one ride
What could anyone sue for? The organizers of the new ride aren't doing anything to associate it with RAGBRAI. And they're not piggybacking on the RAGBRAI route since they'll announce their 2020 route first. It's just a competing ride.
I agree. Even if they didn't want to give up I'm not sure they can pull off the 2020 ride. I don't know what the timetable is for planning these things but it seems like mid October is fairly late in the game from a planning/logistics standpoint to find another organizer and get everything in line. The Iowa's Ride group has a huge head start.
im sure they will get a non-local PR firm/organizer to **** it all up even worse
No doubt. This message board community could start a ride the same week. RAGBRAI is dead. Nobody can organize it and they are already months behind the new ride.
Hard to imagine either one doing well. Iowa's Ride has the staff and expertise. RAGBRAI has the brand, rights, and register (no pun intended) of previous riders.
If the Register fights this, they are going to have to admit to muzzling the RAGBRAI people. Not a good image for a newspaper.
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.
So this is kind of like choosing between the Newmannium and the Kramennium New Year's Eve parties.
Yeah, I don't see what they possibly could sue for or why they would waste their time and resources on a lawsuit. My guess is the DMR just chalks this up as a loss and moves on because they surely don't have the staff and expertise to get something put together in short time at this point. Will probably be some smear op-ed coming too trying to save face about how the organizers screwed them or something too.
I'm guessing anyone who participates in RAGBRAI will just participate in this new ride instead now. It's basically going to be the same event run by the same people but under a different name now.
This is nothing like that. But you are too stupid to understand that.
