The 2025 RAGBRAI route has been announced.

[lucas80]

It’s a northern route this year.
Notable stops in Esterville, Iowa Falls, Cedar Falls and ending in Gutenberg.

2025 RAGBRAI route announced

This year’s event will take riders west to east from Orange City to Guttenberg, starting July 19 and ending July 26.

www.kcrg.com

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

I leaning towards this one.

 

[dekhawk]

In

 

[fredjr82]

Trump sued the Des Moines Register. Can they afford the ride this year because of his ego?

 

[runkpanole]

I leaning towards this one.

Just a bunch of fat asses, amirite?

I bike a lot myself but let's be honest here.

Any fat ass can squeeze into biker shorts and get on a bike. I mean look at Ragbrai. Tons of older people. Many of the women are 50ish and totally out of shape. Bulging spandex from top to bottom and boozing it up at every turn.

I have much more respect for ultra runners or even those that run 10ks. Heck even 5ks.

 

[fredjr82]

I leaning towards this one.

Following @DeangeloVickers logic they think you're drunk when the rest of us know you're just a f'ing idiot like they are! LOL!!

 

[millah_22]

Just a bunch of fat asses, amirite?

Northern should run RAGBRAI

 

[lucas80]

Esterville might be too Lib for Northern to overnight in.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

Just a bunch of fat asses, amirite?

Many of them are.

My participation would class up the joint.

 

[General Tso]

Why do they never ride east to west? Pitch of the land, wind, etc?

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

Why do they never ride east to west? Pitch of the land, wind, etc?

Wind

 

[HROT]

Why do they never ride east to west? Pitch of the land, wind, etc?

Probably just tradition

 

[lucas80]

Why do they never ride east to west? Pitch of the land, wind, etc?

A lot of them are super drunk, so you have to keep it easy. Ride east into the sun at the start of the day to establish the herd. Sun at your back as the buzz heightens.

 

[soybean]

I think the riders will like the Cedar Falls stop.

 

[ThorneStockton]

A friend told me that Orange City is a dry stop. Can that be right?

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

A friend told me that Orange City is a dry stop. Can that be right?

It wasn't last time.

 

[DeangeloVickers]

Following @DeangeloVickers logic they think you're drunk when the rest of us know you're just a f'ing idiot like they are! LOL!!

So you weren't intoxicated last night? I don't care and I'm not judging, hell I was definitely doing some drunk posting last weekend. Lighten up a bit, not everything is some life or death personal attack.

 

[torbee]

It doesn’t start at the Missouri River this time? That’s weird.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

It doesn’t start at the Missouri River this time? That’s weird.

They did this before when Orange City was the start. People are given the option of a ceremonial dip in the Missouri River. If you were well read, you would know this.

 

[jasonrann]

A friend told me that Orange City is a dry stop. Can that be right?

Sounds about right, I grew up 10 minutes south of there, luckily with the drunk Germans. OC pretty much sucks balls.

 

[Hawki97]

It doesn’t start at the Missouri River this time? That’s weird.

They'll bring some water from the Missouri to Boring City, I mean Orange City and people will be able to dip their tires in that before embarking. It's pretty lame but become the norm for starting cities that aren't close to the river. If you've done never done RAGBRAI I'd feel a little shorted in the experience but it's also not a big deal to ride 30-40 miles over on Saturday to get the real dip if you want.

It's going to be short and flat this year. It will be a nice respite for those that couldn't hack last year's climbs. I expect a good turn-out. Nice route once you get out of Northwest Iowa.

 

[jasonrann]

They'll bring some water from the Missouri to Boring City, I mean Orange City and people will be able to dip their tires in that before embarking. It's pretty lame but become the norm for starting cities that aren't close to the river. If you've done never done RAGBRAI I'd feel a little shorted in the experience but it's also not a big deal to ride 30-40 miles over on Saturday to get the real dip if you want.

It's going to be short and flat this year. It will be a nice respite for those that couldn't hack last year's climbs. I expect a good turn-out. Nice route once you get out of Northwest Iowa.

Cedar Falls will be rocking, no doubt about that. Not a lot of other experience on the route besides Orange City.

 

[Hawki97]

Cedar Falls will be rocking, no doubt about that. Not a lot of other experience on the route besides Orange City.

Depending on how they do Forest City > Iowa Falls > Cedar Falls, that could be a fantastic stretch. Probably best to go off route though after that so you don’t get methed up by the locals in yet another shitty town in Iowa that begins with O!

 

[millah_22]

A friend told me that Orange City is a dry stop. Can that be right?

Everyone's prob going to go to Alton for that stop.

 

[THE_DEVIL]

Alton was originally called East Orange, and under the latter name was laid out in 1875 when the railroad was extended to that point.[3] East Orange was renamed Alton in 1882.[4] Alton was incorporated as a city in 1883.[3]

 

[Hawki97]

Alton was originally called East Orange, and under the latter name was laid out in 1875 when the railroad was extended to that point.[3] East Orange was renamed Alton in 1882.[4] Alton was incorporated as a city in 1883.[3]

Thanks Lute!

 

[THE_DEVIL]

Thanks Lute!

 

[95Hawk]

A bunch of you sure are salty about “Dutch hospitality”. Sad that adults can’t have fun without booze.























Do not @ me about ⬆️ if you don’t get the joke.

 

[SolarHawk]

Northern Iowa>>>Southern Iowa

 

[Hawki97]

Northern Iowa>>>Southern Iowa

The competition between the two is pretty much like this, but you are correct. Northern Iowa is slightly less methy.

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

They'll bring some water from the Missouri to Boring City, I mean Orange City and people will be able to dip their tires in that before embarking. It's pretty lame but become the norm for starting cities that aren't close to the river. If you've done never done RAGBRAI I'd feel a little shorted in the experience but it's also not a big deal to ride 30-40 miles over on Saturday to get the real dip if you want.

It's going to be short and flat this year. It will be a nice respite for those that couldn't hack last year's climbs. I expect a good turn-out. Nice route once you get out of Northwest Iowa.

Won’t that short out your E-bike? ⚡️⚡️⚡️

 

[Ghee Buttersnaps]

Won’t that short out your E-bike? ⚡️⚡️⚡️

 

[RonaldMexico]

Everyone's prob going to go to Alton for that stop.

That’s what we did last time. Alton was a lot of fun. It was just the old school party teams while the rest of the herd was in OC.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

Orange City was really good last time. It had the same to offer as any other similar sized town.

 

[Hawki97]

Won’t that short out your E-bike? ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Lulz. Is that how you knocked out that big 20 miler you pretended to do that one time?! Makes sense coming from a dicky-do like you!

 

[drew_hawk]

Love that it's ending in Guttenberg, looking forward to hitting the Fish Shack and shooting the shit with Mike.

 

[Hawki97]

Orange City was really good last time. It had the same to offer as any other similar sized town.

I had an extremely average dutch letter back there back on XLV. That's not OC's fault though because dutch letters are as mid as a typical dutchman's personality.

 

[Igor Stravinsky10]

They did this before when Orange City was the start. People are given the option of a ceremonial dip in the Missouri River. If you were well read, you would know this.

Yeah Torbee, if you were well read..... LOL.

Both the poster and the liker of the post I quoted are absolute morons.

 

[Hawki97]

Love that it's ending in Guttenberg, looking forward to hitting the Fish Shack and shooting the shit with Mike.

Guttenberg is a good ending town. Oelwien is the only weak link on the central/east side of this route.

 

[Here_4_a_Day]

I had an extremely average dutch letter back there back on XLV. That's not OC's fault though because dutch letters are as mid as a typical dutchman's personality.

My god you think you’re something! 😂🤡🤡