Every year over the last full week of July bike riders, clubs, teams, and families join up at the Missouri River in eastern Iowa for the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI). Anywhere from ten to thirty thousand people show up for the 7 day ride east across Iowa to the Mississippi River. Team buses roll in to the host town all day looking for camping sites to unload at. People set up their tents then get ready to go to the river and dip their tire in the water of the Missouri. The town is filled with food vendors, bike shops, bands, beer gardens, and everything else you ...
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