Inside Ragbrai

RAGBRAI: the world's largest organized bike tour captured on two bike mounted time lapse cameras. 7 days, 500 miles, 19,000 riders and 64,000 still images comprise this short video adventure across Iowa.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• RAGBRAI
• Cycling
• Timelapse
• Time Lapse
• Iowa
• DesMoines Register
• Bike Camera
• Bicycle Ride

[slothluvchunk]

After open heart surgery and a kidney transplant in the last year (all of this after 8 years of dialysis), my wife and I are training to travel from Colorado to ride RAGBRAI this summer to rase funds for charity. This video is inspirational as I train on the indoor trainer right now - thinking this will be a great time, and happy for any pointers or tips you can share. This looks like an awesome ride!

[100timelapse]

Best of success with your recovery. I hope to see you at RAGBRAI this summer.

[singletrackedmind]

This was a blast to watch. Fantastic job on the editing, music selection and really creating and fun mood. I can't imagine how long it took to put this together - but whatever it was, it was worth it!

[100timelapse]

Thanks for your nice comments. Yeah, the whole process took months of planning. I fabricated three digital still cameras with intervalometers and mounted two of them on my bike for the 7 day ride. Each of the cameras shot one high resolution still image every 5 seconds. At the end of the ride, I had over 65,000 images to edit the video with. The tough part was I had to shoot all of it blind. I could not look through the viewfinder while riding.

[LEXPIX]

Very cool. Well done.

[100timelapse]

Thanks. It was fun to shoot and fun to edit later. It was all done with small point-and-shoot still cameras mounted on my bike.

[atter0]

hey im strongly considering doing ragbri I LOVE biking and can EASILY bike 75 miles in 4-5 hours...can you tell me about ragbri?

[r56mini]

just watching it makes me want to go to bed... :D

[bagator24]

are there any events like these in california?

[Postie218]

It's funny, I watched this, and the one thing I caught in the rapid montage was a guy dressed like a banana.

[devilman819]

1 person hates the thought of physical fitness...

[Washrider]

Nice job and the music fits well!

[BestOf90sCCM]

whoa! did you see that climb @ 2:45?

[slothluvchunk]

After open heart surgery and a kidney transplant in the last year (all of this after 8 years of dialysis), my wife and I are training to travel from Colorado to ride RAGBRAI this summer to rase funds for charity. This video is inspirational as I train on the indoor trainer right now - thinking this will be a great time, and happy for any pointers or tips you can share. This looks like an awesome ride!

[lazurm]

Great event, great social experience. I don't think, though, people do this for the scenary which seemed devoid of any luster.

[100timelapse]

@zeekle Thanks, you too.

[WC9456]

yo cop, get meh some donuts

[uncleben03]

I'm a police officer, RAGBRAI came through my town in 08, it was a blast!!!

[jeremy8080]

People in iowa are so nice!

[IstasPumaNevada]

That looks like a blast, and a good way to get together with a bunch of people.

Thank you for sharing it with everyone, and good job on composting the video as well.

[100timelapse]

Thanks for your sentiment. I was concerned that the ridership of RAGBRAI would be down this year due to the economy, but I was wrong. RAGBRAI was as big as I've ever seen it. Heck, it is a great, inexpensive way to spend a week's adventure vacation.

[JonathanBruner182]

That is so awesome. I want to do that. When is it?