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An Amish elder and his children watch as RAGBRAI riders pedal past their rural Lebanon, Iowa, home.

A community of tents in the Osceola campground is left with a brilliant sunset after severe weather moved through the area and dropped heavy rain on the riders.

Jose Mondragon, left, and Luis Innes, both of Mexico City, celebrate after winning a free night’s stay in a hotel during a raffle drawing in the Oskaloosa campground.

Joe Lisner, right, and other Pork Belly Ventures team members wash themselves at a homemade bathing station in the Oskaloosa campground. The “watering hole” is just one of several luxuries the charter team enjoys on the route. Team Pork…

Riders celebrate with a group of evening entertainers during a stop at a bar in Drakesville. For many, the journey thorugh Iowa is as much about socializing and partying as it is about traveling.

A group of riders blend into the landscape of Chillicothe during a midday break. Most rural communities on the route embrace the travelers and welcome the brief economic boost the event provides.

Jeremy Ovington, left, of Cedar Rapids, Ia. and Tony Eeds of Dallas, Texas catch up on some sleep in Clarinda’s town square.

Brianna Blake has a bite to eat as she and other riders stop for lunch in Blakesburg during the fifth day of travel on Ragbrai XXXI. The event’s meals are provided largely by vendors that set up in the daily stop-over towns. The fare included…

Cyclists emerge from the fog during the first day of travel. Over 10,000 people participated in the 31st annual ride.

Every year in late July, thousands of people strap their bicycles to their cars, vans, trucks and buses and migrate to the midwest for the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. The weeklong trek through the small towns of the Hawkeye…