Well done Don. You've captured the event very well. Chris
On 30 July 2015 at 22:32, Donald Guthrie <shark50...@gmail.com> wrote: > Every year for the last 40, thousands (20,000 est this year) gather in > western Iowa to ride their bikes from the Missouri river to the Mississippi > river in one week 60-70miles a day. . They ride everything from unicycles to > tandem tricycles. They are all ages, sizes, and both sexes (more men than > women) It is a different route each year and many ride year after year. Some > of them start the ride by biking the route from east to west and then > joining the others for the return. They eat a lot of carbs drink lots of > beer and profess to have a great time. Many find out that Iowa is not as > flat as they had heard. > > I rode a very short way with them. BTW my brother dubbed the ride Tour de > farms many years ago and made a tidy sum for many years selling T-shirts on > the ride with the slogan and original artwork by his wife. > > This year they stopped in my hometown and here is small gallery of their > stop. Some Pentax; some not. C&C as always. > > https://www.flickr.com/gp/valdon/J65M49 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.