RAGBRAI 28 Team Fishy year 2000

Team Fishy

RAGBRAI 28 (2000)

"Register's annual great bike ride across Iowa"

The year 2000 marks the beginning of Team Fishy. Our captain Fish (yours truly) did not plan too well this year and thus we were limited to just the first 2 days, but 2 days are better than none!

My friend, Mike Cole, bought some bottled water and decided to just give it away as riders were leaving town. He also supplied a free air hose! Sometimes people are just plain nice.

I decided to take my wife's new BikeE. I had trained on my road bike and mountain bike but only had about 40 miles on her new bike. On Day 2 the lack of training on her bike showed itself in the hills. You might have seen me, I wore a bright red wig and had these huge yellow sunglasses!

Remember seeing those two guys on the Big wheel bikes? Here is an image of one of them giving team virtual RAGBRAI an audio clip

Pulling into Underwood I parked next to the 5 person (family) tandem bike that was even pulling a trailer!

Here is an image of the little guy sleeping on the back

In Neola I quickly found the beer garden and found a group of dressed up riders

I also found that really big bike the town had

Elvis even sang me a little tune

I also ran into Ken Nelson, who I forgot lived in the town

Did you see the Team Balls to the Wall truck?

As I pulled into another town I was wondering what all the noise outside the bar was, it was a portable margarita blender!

Of course I had to get my picture taken with some of Team Fishy fans

Of all my RAGBRAI's this has to be the funniest story: I'm walking down the street and I see Big Bird and decide that I should have my picture taken with the yellow bird

I no sooner walk away and this bike team rolls up and the 1st guy stops and says, "I have to get my picture taken with Big Bird" as he's posing with the bird this thing starts trying to hump the guy! He's trying to be polite but the Bird just won't let him go. He starts joking that it must be mating season for the Bird and keeps trying to get away. Finally the Bird has this guy on the ground and he screams, "Help, I'm being raped by Big Bird!" Then the Bird whispers something to him and he shouts, "Oh my god, I know this person!" He knew the person lived in the town but had no idea that they were in the Big Bird suit. I still laugh just thinking about it.

I saw the signs about a Chicken Rodeo and just had to see what it was all about