The first and biggest bike ride is RAGBRAI! RAGBRAI, The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, is an annual seven-day bicycle ride across the state.  RAGBRAI is the oldest, largest and longest bicycle touring event in the world. In the beginning, no one imagined that RAGBRAI would become the Iowa tradition it is now.  We at The Des Moines Register thank all the riders who have joined us over the years.  We especially wish to thank the thousands and thousands of volunteers in the towns we’ve visited along the way for their…

Kansas City has a huge bike charity event called the MS 150. MS 150 stands for "ride a 150 miles over a September weekend and raise money for Muscular Dystrophy".  The people who volunteer for this event are legion wide.  There are practice bike rides throughout the summer to help you get prepared to ride the MS 150.   Often times the rides have their own T-shirts so you start collecting some mighty fine T shirts to show the miles you have ridden. There are MS 150 rides in different…

Bike clothes deserve an entire chapter along with bike seats.  Let's talk about clothes first. Bike pants are tight and they are foam-lined where the seat hits the road...so to speak.  Bike pant color comes in black.  Summer bike pants go down to the knees and have elastic to make certain they don't ride up.  It's important that bike pants stay exactly where they need to be and provide some cushion.  I had to find bike pants that would fit my immense body.  The link that you see here shows…