 What's up my friends? Are you ready for some serious braggbri action? Cause it's time to ride 500 fun leaven miles from the Missouri River all the way across the state to the Mississippi. Along the way we'll be searching out all the best slip and slides and yummy food. And this year we organized a very informal team selling hot pink shirts to raise money for the dream team, an amazing organization that gets young people on bikes. Hey, help out my channel by liking and subscribing and if you want to directly support my channel, please consider joining my Patreon, you'll get early releases and much more. Dirt! Oh, thank you. And I like your shirt. Hotter is nice and warm. It's a hot tub. It really is. It's bathwater. All right my friends, can you believe it's here? It's braggbri 50! You've watched my videos about braggbri. You know what this is all about. It is the largest bike touring event in the world. I love it with all of my heart. It's so much fun. I always tell people it's like a big rolling county fair. And for me personally I feel like it shows off the best of small town America. It's charming. It's fun. It's goofy. It's seven days long and my goal is to show you the heart and soul of this ride and this state. So let's go have some fun. Who's psyched for braggbri? Look at this! I would like to introduce you to two very special people. This is Jack. This is Michael. They live in Boulder. Jack is 12 years old. He is going to ride all 500 miles. Michael is his father. They're awesome people and they drove me out here. You know I don't really drive. I don't have a car. So thank you so much for driving me out here. Our pleasure, dude. Are you excited or what? Braggbri this is going to be awesome and we couldn't ask to be riding it with a better person. Happy to start our ride with Ryan. Thanks man. Smile everybody. What are you most looking forward to? Oh time together. So doing something hard and fun and it's going to be fantastic. Hey it's Dan. How's it going buddy? I remember you from last year. I remember you from last week. As you might remember Dan was in my video last year surfing on his bike. We're going to make sure to get a lot of footage of that. Tell me a little bit about your story again, your travels through the United States and why you did that. Yeah so I rode the lower 48 states for suicide prevention awareness. What inspired me to do that was my own suicide attempts. I attempted three times. I was planning a fourth when a friend got me on a bicycle and physically and mentally changed my life. I was over 270 pounds and I'm in the best shape of my life mentally and physically now and just trying to encourage people to smile and be their best selves. Who's ready for Raghbride? Whoa. So this is the patch from the very first Raghbride? Yeah. Look at that. I wonder if there's any more of them here. So you rode the very first Raghbride. I did all the way across when I was 18. What year was that? 1973. And how was it? Different from this. What inspired you to come back 49 years later? Oh yeah it's 50th anniversary. Yeah. Golden anniversary. I've got to compare it. See how it is. I didn't think there'd be a chance. I'd see Ryan Van Duzer in this crowd. Go get him. Go get him. Only 500 miles to go. I enjoy your videos man. You got this. You got this. Once again I'll be riding the Priority 600. This is my favorite bike for when I'm not mountain biking and I'll be carrying all my own gear. Most people don't but this is just how I roll. So what's your name? Walt. And where are you from? What are you doing? I'm here to hear from Radbride about the ride across the state of Iowa. Is this your first time? First time. Yep. Yep. Radbride Virgin right here. Yeah. And what made you want to do all this? Hey I'd just like excitement. It's something to 50th anniversary beer, music, you know, why would you want to be here? I'm not going to get anywhere if I hang out at this spot all day so maybe it's time to go. Happy Radbride Day. Here we go. We're surfing. Happy Radbride Day. Here we go. We're surfing. Happy Radbride. I've been waiting for this for a whole year. I certainly love Radbride with all my heart. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, here we go. Right off the bat. Ole. Did you know that an olea day keeps the doctor away? Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. Nice bike buddy. Priority 600X in the house. I saw it on some YouTube video somewhere. Had to have one. So it's really easy to make friends on Radbride and I just made a new friend. Chris, how you doing bud? Good man. How are you today? Good. Have you done this before? Nope. First timer. What inspired you to do this? You. No. Yes. Had knee surgery watching too many YouTube videos. You're right on. Found you and I said I got to do it. Turned 60 this year. So I said that's it. Going to do a big ride. Good for you my friend. Right on. You got the big ole fat bike. Yep. Big ole surly ice cream truck. Good morning. Good morning. One of the most charming aspects of Radbride are the people who live in the towns that we go through and they always lie in the streets when we're riding in and riding out and they wave at everybody and it's just so welcoming. Good morning. Good morning. How you doing? Oh no big deal. Ha. No big deal. Good morning. Good morning. There's another 600X in the house. How you doing, Rock? All the way. Awesome Ryan. Powered by pink too. That's right you are. So I tend to get pretty excited here at Radbride. Well I get pretty excited when I'm around other people and bikes and I whoop and holler a lot so you might want to turn the volume down on your TV because it might get a little loud. Ha ha ha. You feeling good? First hill to be. First hill. Here we go. We got this. So a lot of people when they think of Iowa they think flat as a pancake but it's not. There are some hills in Iowa and today is going to be a fairly hilly day. Awesome. I love your outfit. Thank you. That is so cool. And you have a little co-pilot. I do. What's his name? Her name? Mocha. Mocha. Hi. Nice to meet you Mocha. Oh wow. Look at that. Ha ha. Now you are riding in style. Ha ha. Eating a cookie. How you doing? You're so lucky. Ha ha. That's the way to do Radbride. That is. I love it. I got another little one up here. Ole. Doesn't it feel good? It's great. Yeah. It feels really good. It feels good. It gets you going in the morning. At the beginning of every Radbride within the first 10 miles of the very first day there's always a mile of silence and it's a mile where all the cyclists are asked to turn off their stereos and pause their conversations so that we can think about all the cyclists who have been killed by motorists around the United States. So it's just an opportunity to send some love out to those people who have perished and also think about how we can make our streets safer for cyclists because as you all know I love bikes and I want everybody to ride their bikes more but it can be scary to ride your bike if you live in a city that's not necessarily safe for cyclists. So there's a lot of work to be done in the bicycle advocacy world. Good morning there T-Rex. New friend alert. I just met Shelby from Minnesota. How you doing? Doing great. Loving the hills. Loving the hills. This is your first Radbride. First Radbride. What inspired you to come out here? I had a willing participant partner this time. That's why I finally did it. Good. But seemed like an epic ride. And you're into bikepacking. Yeah. Yeah. I like bikepacking but I got a kid so I've slowed down so this is the first time back out in a while. Good for you. Yeah. Awesome. Thanks. And you're loving those hills today. Oh yeah. Loving them. Loving them. Getting them in today so you don't have to do them tomorrow. I love it. Yep. I just love riding at a slow pace and just chatting with everybody. I talk all day long. You know you think you're pedaling like your legs are going to be tired after Radbride but really it's my throat that hurts after a few days of drag we're from talking but it's all good. Shelby you're awesome. It's amazing how he does that. We're going pretty fast. I would say 25, 30 miles an hour. He's just surfing that thing like it's nothing. Colorado flag in the house. Thank you for bringing the pride. Always. It's no fair. Little Jack won't wait up for me. He's too fast. Jack slow down. Slow down. Whoa. Look at this awesome rig. Look at that. That is so cool. Is this homemade? Homemade. Fiberglass did it myself. Welded the frame. Put an adult tricycle rear end underneath it. That's it. Who gets to sit in the cool part, the back? They take turns. Okay. About 30 to 45 minutes and then we swap. Here we go. Slip and slide number one of Radbride 2023. You ready for this Jack? Yes. Okay, good. Here we go. Ta-da-da-da. That was pretty good. Got a few holes in the slip and slide. Don't go over that area. Otherwise you're good. All right, Jack. High five. High five. This is how you stay cool. Radbride. I don't know if I introduced Chase, but Chase works for Priority and he's riding with us this week. Absolutely. First Radbride? First Radbride. What do you think so far? I love it. It's beautiful. It's the country. I'm done with the city. Yeah, yeah. Priority is in New York City and that's where he lives. So this is a little break from the craziness, fresh air all day long. And if you're curious where people fill up their water bottles, you can do it all over the place. This nice farmhouse put a little water bottle filler upper and these things are all over. And it's good to stay hydrated. Right, Jack? High five. Good slip and slide. Woo! Let's do this. There is no shortage of inspiring people out here on Radbride and they all have their own unique stories and a lot of them are riding for something bigger than just having a good time out here at Radbride. This is my friend Mike here in his family. How you doing? Hey, how are you? Doing great. So who are we riding with today? All right, so my name is Mike. We're from St. George, Utah. This is my son, Kean. He's 10. Hi. We've got Jayden. He's 7. Nice. And then we've got Desha. She's 12. This is our first Radbride. We're super excited to come all the way out in Iowa and ride some bikes. Right on. And tell me the story. What are you riding for? I saw the big flag. So yeah, we've got a donate life flag. I've got my kidney donor athlete shirt on. And last year I was inspired to donate my kidney. And so my right kidney went to a gentleman in Wisconsin. It turned out to go to a father of five, which is really cool, about my age. And he went from being on dialysis three days a week to being free, to spend time with his family, to spend time with his kids. And that means a lot to be able to do something so cool for somebody else that I didn't know. I hope people will consider it, because if we have more living donors, then we won't have 90,000 people on a waiting list waiting for a kidney. And that's where we can make the biggest impact. Life is short. I've got seven kids. My three others are older. And I didn't really get a chance to do stuff like this with them. And so it's just season the moment. Take advantage, take that time you have, and do it. Make it happen. Can I get a high five? High five. Show them your Olay you do. Oh, you're doing Olay? Oh, he's good at it. Come on, let's do the Olay together, bud. Don't be shy. No, like, I do it only in tunnels. Only in tunnels. Okay, good man. You've got to follow the rules. So one of the really cool things about rag brides, you get to meet people in real life. You've only known online, and I have two special people right here. How you doing? What's up? What's up? What are your names? Who are you? Where'd you come from? This is Alan. Came all the way up here for you, man. No, you came here for rag bride. Came here for rag bride. Now you inspired us to be here. Right on. And Alan, how old are you? 12. You're carrying all your own gear? Yep. Got my, this is all my, like, sleeping stuff, chair, clothing, food and book, and then tags. You're awesome. Look at that. Good to see you. Good to see you too, my friend. How you doing? It's Mike. Great, man. Ah, I've been looking for you. Cheers. These spoke bracelets right here are some of my most cherished possessions, and this guy right here makes them, Mike. He's the best. He rides around rag bride with a backpack full of spokes, and he makes these bracelets custom for everybody, and they're only six bucks, and I'm excited to get a new one. If it's not just right, I can always make a different one. Does that work? I love it. Thank you, my man. My pleasure. Oh, yeah. Look at that. That's fine. That's perfect. There's not a ton of vegetarian options on rag bride, but corn is definitely one of the options, and this is corn country, and it is good. Hello. Thank you for having us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. If you see something that looks like a forest fire from off in the distance, it's not. It's Mr. pork chop, making pork chops. Very famous pork chops. I've been told, obviously, I don't eat them, but it's a big part of rag bride. Yeah, guys. Making it happen. We are in a soybean area right now, not corn. Hey, Alan, you having fun? Yeah. Is this the best day of your life? Yes, literally so far. It's a great day to be at the back end of drag ride so chill back here. I'm digging it Will you spray my back with the water here? We go do it do it up. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah When it's super hot in Iowa you have to take advantage of every opportunity to get wet even if it's just a Little girl at the hose you stop and you have her hose you down So we've been riding together for a few hours, and what have you been hiding from me? Oh, and and tortillas and beans you have tortillas and beans with you. Yeah, what else do you have in here? These are amazing and also quite hot we got some cheez-its Do this book you guys are my books in there. Yeah Hot wheel a hot wheel just in case yeah Just in case I'm bored What's this? Oh, yeah, my bottle is chalula. You have a bottle of chalula in there, too. Yeah, I Love it, man. I love it. Hi disco. Hi cutie. You the cutest dog on rag ride. Yes, he is You're so cute, and we've got Mary Beth from BBB adventures. Hi everybody. How's it going? Oh, it's going great So you're riding with your dog. I am Yes, there's tons of inspirational people out here I just may have met the most inspirational person Marley Blonsky. Tell me what you do I'm the executive director and co-founder of all bodies on bikes. We're a group working towards inclusion in the cycling world So oh well also all butts on bikes Yes, you can buy this shirt. Just Google it. You'll find it. Anyway We do inclusive group rides, and we're just trying to make the industry more inclusive for everyone And what does that mean? Kits that fit bigger bodies Weight limits that are posted and you can find them easily. Do you let bikes have weight limits? I didn't yeah It's often like 275 pounds So just trying to make people more aware of that especially bike shops So when folks go into the bike shop, wait, do you mean looking at you or the camera? No, you're good You can look at me. Okay. I'm like, this is so awkward So people go into bike shops they get treated with respect so we're doing education consulting Whatever we can because I've had enough crappy experiences and everybody likes to ride bikes So yeah, and what tell me about the experiences like what what happens to people? You don't get you know, you walk into a shop and people assume that you're a beginner just because you're in a bigger body It's like, you know, and there's nothing wrong with being a beginner Let me make that clear But if you go in and like know what you're talking about like just being believed Being asked the same questions that anybody else would be, you know, not having assumptions made But also just not being able to find the equipment that you need You know, my co-founder Kaylee was riding across Alaska and didn't have a rain jacket that fit There's a bunch of brands that have since come on in the last couple years that make plus sizes But it's still not enough like I mountain bike. I don't have knee pads that fit So just things like that that it's like yes, you can ride a bike wearing anything But your experience is me better if it's if it's yeah, so yeah, how did you get into cycling? I got divorced and The bike became my like safe space to go where I could just like feel my feelings. So Yeah, about 10 years ago. Talk to me about where you're gonna take this. What's the ultimate goal? So we have 11 chapters right now because I think that's where the true connections are made is with those local rides Where you're meeting community. You're not worried about getting left behind. You can just be yourself so opening up more chapters We just became a nonprofit. So trying to figure out the finances there and Ideally people like find out more go to all bodies on bikes calm or follow us on Instagram at all bodies on bikes right on And you're here all week all week all week rag braing. Yes, what am I? Whoo, but you're whatever. Exactly. Yeah, it is warm out here. This is your first one, right? It is. Yeah, yeah I'm having it is unbelievable the number of people out here. I'm sure you've been filming all day and getting some good footage But like I'm blown away What's your name? How do you do this? I'm Drew Pearson with team get it and do it with mindfulness and practice every day makes me happy That's awesome, brother. All right, we have 25 miles to go Alan. Can you do it? Yeah, right on What's the furthest you've ever ridden? 72 72 72 miles. I don't know how far we're riding today, but I think it's somewhere around there So I'm here hanging out with my favorite ambulance driver Grant. I've known you for five years now Eight something like that Grant always takes really good care of me luckily Not taking care of me like I've splatted on the ground, but just being a nice guy. Well, not yet And now I'm signing books for him. Thanks for bringing my book. Hey, and you can buy this at dozerbook.com Hey, Ryan, it's it's just me me me and Barb You know your favorite people of all time and we just wanted to say we're really glad that you hit rag right we had a really good time seeing you and a Barb likes your channel. I also think it's okay This is scuba Steve during the day Scoob of Steve during the day is Oh half-strength the electrolyte most people are drinking either straight water or Sport strengths that are too strong. You need to cut it in half 50 50 You know getting your body 28% quicker. So this is half strength electrolyte Did you really bring this for me? You brought some free ho-lays for me actually found them over here by the fence And he brought my favorite Mexican cookie the Prince he pays it matches his shirts. Look all this good stuff, man You're the best. Oh, and you my favorite fig bars. Oh Man, this is true love. He takes care of me every year. He brings me a little care package of goodies grant You are the man. I'm tired of watching you drink dirty water I Tend to do that if you're gonna get this and cherry once you have some good roughage in your system This is my friend Brent Lee you may have remember him from last year's videos He and his wife Mary Beth rode bikes all the way across the country. We rode that bike. Oh, yeah that one the Apollo the Priority Apollo the Apollo mission and now he's back at rag break because he loves rag bra. I love rag bra He heard himself. He's good. Yeah, he heard myself. Oh, okay. We all get oh But yeah, I broke my collarbone on June 3rd and It completely wrecked our rag-braid prompt plans and so we were talking on BBB adventures about how you know We wouldn't know we should and barb And her husband. Hi barb. How's it going? Contacted us and said hey We have a solution for you because my doctor said you can only ride on a recumbent so they Offered they brought this from New York. No way. They did It's a little bit of you know, YouTube angel. She's a YouTube angel. She came to my YouTube angel So yeah, so now I get to do rag bra. Otherwise, I would be home pouting like this. Oh, I'm glad you're here, brother Beautiful we're getting there we're getting there How you doing good good last hill of the day I promise Are you doing brother this part of Iowa? Oh, you know, I thought I'd just go for a bike ride with my buddies Nice nice super nice. You have a fun. Oh wonderful time. Good We're getting there slow and steady slow and steady And I see a naked lady up here. What's this about? How is it to ride the tandem? Because you know why she's a flat. I mean a sale. She's a sale Yeah, she just like makes it. Yeah, he's a wind drag Oh, yeah, Alan get in there buddy We were riding by and we almost went by we actually did go by and then I saw out of the corner of my eye this yellow Trough of some sort and yeah, we're gonna get in here because water because it's water. Oh, that feels good I'm digging these giant fans. They're cooling off all these people. It is hot It's probably like 90 ish and a lot of humidity. We're not used to humidity in Colorado. So Yeah, we're trying to get as cool as we can Luke I am your father I actually feel chilly it feels good now we're moving on our wet clothing a little breeze Chase your first day of ragway. How you feeling? It's fantastic. Yeah Phenomenal phenomenal. How are you doing? It's good to see you Right on you're doing it How's day one? Awesome. Awesome. Best day ever. How's mom doing? She's doing great So we just rolled into storm lake which has a giant lake Which is very good news for people like me who like jumping and water great day, buddy. Congrats. That was awesome Yes, Alan give me a high five Boom and look at this. We happen to have some Team Deuzerites right here. Hey, this is my buddy Wilson And we have some more over here. How you doing? Good to see you. How was day one? It was rough, but we made it. You made it. Congratulations. Proud of you, buddy Check it out. We have an Iowa beach Oh Boy, oh, here we go. Let's just lay back Right on chase Enjoy it So I just got back from swimming and my camp mates are here having dinner. Guess what they're eating. What do we have? Free homeless. I see yes. Look at this. Free homeless. Look at that. So good. Where did you learn how to eat like this? Ryan Van Deuzer Look at that you chase. How is it? The best meal I've had all day Second best the corn And look at this we're eating burritos lakeside So I'm sitting here with my boys. What's up and Everybody has a story to share and Chris was just sharing a pretty darn incredible story So Chris, let's let's hear it. We're gonna take it from the top take it from the top All right, so we were talking about my journey as to why I'm here. I'm Chris by the way and it all started with Medical issues back in 2020. I was diagnosed with the with Brady Cardia not a huge deal But I had a heart really heart really low heart rate For just standing around I'm 38 when it should have been up higher than that So anyway, they freaked out on me and they told me that I needed to do exercise So I started running and started biking and then my buddy Hunter over here found do hunter found dozer online like many of us and got inspired and We started riding together and we've been hitting the trails ever since we've gotten to the point of bike packing now And so we made a goal in January. No matter what we were going to rag bride this year It's happening like no matter what happens. So we bought the passes in February and we made sure that it was done You know good to go and then of course Things happen like life does and my wife decided to buy a house. So today is Sunday We're out here at rag bride day one and on Friday. I bought and sold a house by 3 30 p.m. Move the house with Hunter Unloaded it by 5 30 p.m. And then drove 24 hours to be here at rag bride wouldn't have missed it for the world So super happy to be here can't believe we found you over here and tonight's just a great night, man You guys have been friends since you were how old? He was 12. I was 13. So well over 20 years Oh, yeah, long years just friendship and now your bike packing buddy. That's right, man. That's right. I love the way How'd you get into all this so my wife had COVID and She was having a lot of health issues and she couldn't sleep at night because her heart would race Due to COVID anyways our son Mitch found a video of you one time and Stacey watched it And she's like you got to watch this guy. He's so inspiring. So we got to watching your videos and You did all your adventures and so it helped Stacey and then they helped me get into bicycling and decided to Try out and do the same things that you do not to your level, but try it out And now I'm here at rag bride and join it. Have you ever done anything this big? Oh, no never So it's it's a new experience, but I'm loving it. What do you love most about riding your bike with my feeling? freedom just brings you back to your childhood when you used to just get on your bike and ride around and You know, we get older and we grow and we think that that's no longer important Yeah, right on brother and talk to me about day one, you know, you were kind of intimidated about it Oh, yeah, definitely ever ridden your bike. Yeah, I was intimidated a lot of hills for sure But it was well worth it. It was a learning experience Definitely won't pack as much next time, but it was a lot of fun. It's rewarding