RAGBRAI's 50th anniversary ride across Iowa included a teen battling cancer and a man who has ridden in every one of the weeklong rides.
Riders cross the high trestle bridge near Madrid, Iowa, during the RAGBRAI cycling event across Iowa on July 26, 2023.
“Time is flying by really fast,” he said. “I just want to take advantage of the time I do have and when I can do stuff.” A handful of riders take a detour to the High Trestle Trail Bridge outside of Madrid, Iowa, during the RAGBRAI cycling event across Iowa on July 26, 2023. One year, he made the trek just weeks after a heart attack, skipping rehab to ride with his new stents. For another, he put off herniated disc surgery for months, scheduling it for the day after RAGBRAI.“Whatever it takes. I’ll either be dead, or who knows,” Paulos said.
The miles before he found his friend were among RAGBRAI’s busiest ever. Organizers expected to unofficially break a world record for largest group bicycle ride. Paulos saw people stopped in foot traffic for a half-mile ahead of the first small-town stop.Back in the day, Paulos and his fellow bike racers had zipped from bar to bar along the route. Whoever came last had to pick up the tab. One year, friends did “DRAGBRAI,” biking in drag.
He rode close to his mother, who runs a cycling-focused motel in Colorado Springs called the Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort. Torie Griffin had fiercely defended her son when he was chided as a cheater at his last RAGBRAI. She had dreamed of him riding again.Their handlebars knocked together. They looked at one another as they started to fall. Daniel closed his eyes.
His mother feared she had hurt her shoulder and stayed off the bike the next day. But Griffin had something to prove. On Wednesday, he got back on the bike.Paulos had someone to ride with when he woke up in Tama for an 80-mile, high-elevation ride on the trip’s second-to-last day. For 10 years, they rode a four-person tandem bike, taking different guests each day. On one ride, they were joined by RAGBRAI founder John Karras and Rick Paulos’ mother, who used to take her eight kids on Sunday bike rides as other families went to church.
Their mother, now 92, tried to bike from her home a few miles from the finish line, but took a spill on a gravel stretch and was unable to complete the ride.
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