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Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

264.0. "RAGBRAI ANYONE?" by NCVAX1::WALTZ (MICHAEL (Rock is my life) WALTZ) Tue Apr 14 1987 11:34

    I am interested to know if there are any Digital people riding in
    this years Register Annual Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI). I
    rode last years 480 mile ride and have signed on for this year.
    Shure would be fun to ride with Digital people this year!
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264.1a friend is.MANANA::RUDNICKWed Apr 22 1987 16:289
    I'm not signed up but a buddy of mine lives in Davenport, Iowa and
    is signed up to go.  If you run into a guy named Perri, ask him
    if he's ever been called: 'The Nod', or if he used to own a vehicle
    called: 'The Titanic'.  If he says yes that's you man and a real
    good guy...
    
    Have fun.
    
    Ben.
264.3uh-YUHhhhhXANADU::RUDNICKTue Apr 28 1987 16:0010
    Perri's last name is Schnier.  He'll be riding with other Davenport
    folks named Andy and probably Rhonda Steffenmeisser( last name ?).
    Andy's last name I don't recall.  I've been on a similar trip and
    found I ended up riding with LOTS of different people.  There are
    so many people to talk to...  I believe 1500 people ride on the
    IOWA trip.  
    
    Enjoy!!
    
    Ben.
264.510,000?? 5 Boro Ride gets 18,000ULTRA::WITTENBERGTue May 12 1987 11:5514
re .-1: The Five Boro Tour of New York (held in late April) had 18,000
riders  in  it  2  years  ago, and probably hasn't gotten any smaller.
It's  a  35 mile or so tour of the city. The amazing thing is watching
this  orange  sea preceede you. (They hand out orange reflective vests
to everyone)  

The route  is something like: Start at Battery Park, go up 6th Avenue,
through  Central  Park,  farther north on I don't remember which ave.,
cross  briefly  into  the  Bronx,  go  south  on  the FDR drive to the
Queensboro  bridge,  to  a  few local streets, to the BQE south to the
Verrazano  narrows bridge (the steepest hill on the whole ride), and a
free ride on the Staten Island ferry home

--David