Last week I rode across Iowa with 12,000 other people but this guy stood out in the crowd. He was part Napoleon Dynamite and part Buddhist monk. I saw him nearly every day of the seven RAGBRAI days, often more than once. But I never saw him without his helmet on or without each and every piece of his completely authentic neo retro BMX getup. He was amazingly upbeat as the heat index hovered around 120.
Is this Heaven?
No it’s Iowa, and it’s hotter than hell sometimes.
So if you don’t feel so good, your tummy hurts, your feet hurt, your back hurts, your ass hurts, you’re a little uncomfortable or you just have a general malaise, think of this guy riding this bike 500 miles across Iowa in July with this helmet on, these gloves and these checkered Vans.
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