 It's time for rag brie people Hello there my friends, how are you doing? So I'm in a random parking lot Not in Sweden As many of you know I supposed to be in Sweden But then the pilots decided to go on strike and that I couldn't go to Sweden though I was stuck in Colorado wondering what to do with my life, and then I thought Iowa so that's where I am today, and you know what happens in Iowa Rag brie Whoa, who are you? Oh my god? I'm not alone this time. I am with my wonderful girlfriend, Amelia Boone I've talked about her in some of my previous videos Alluded to the fact that I had it a girl had a girlfriend and a lot of you are probably yeah, right Ryan We don't believe you, but it's true. She's here Amelia Boone The most amazing woman in the world That's a big thing to live up to yeah, but I met her essentially at Leadville last year She paced me in the Leadville 100. We fell madly in love Amelia is a world champion Optical course racer. She's as tough as they get but have you ever ridden your bike further than 50 miles? No, have you ever ridden your bike multiple days in a row? Have you ever done anything like this? Absolutely not How do you feel about that? Excited I am so on a serious level. We're gonna tone it down a second. I am really excited that you're here I appreciate you wanting to come out and doing something so out of the box and crazy I know this is a Different type of event for you, but we're gonna have the time of our lives gonna be a blast Because Iowa is a beautiful state and rag brie is the most amazing bike event in the world We get to share it together. Yes. Yeah, and what bike are you riding? I am riding the 600 X show me Okay, here it is. Oh, yeah, she's on the priority 600 X today ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, and you'll notice She's got her bags here. I got my bags here. We're carrying all our own stuff You know it. What's that called? Bagging bagger. We're baggers. We're baggers. We're baggers. Yes, definitely. I'm over here on my priority 600 this bike has been to rag brie before and I Think we're late. We got to go. Yeah, we got to go. Where is everybody? Hello? Hey everyone if you enjoy my videos and they bring value to your life Please consider supporting my channel on patreon and not only will you be supporting my channel? But you'll get early release videos with no ads How cool is that and from time to time? I'll throw in some other goodies as well I will put a link down in the description if you're interested in this But if not no problem my videos will always be free for everyone to watch on YouTube Okay, back to Iowa Oh No flatties no crashes. No whammies. Let's have the best week ever Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Oh, it feels so good to be back at rag bra I haven't been here since 2019. Whoo. Look at that hot mom on the bike All right, here we go. Thank you. Good morning Thank you. Good morning No whammies no whammies. Hello everybody. Good morning. Good morning. I promise. I don't scream the whole time. I promise Just the beginning Thank you for a wonderful day. Good morning, everybody. So you're not carrying camping gear. What are you carrying beer and ice? Gatorade I love it. I love it the essentials Yes, I love Ottawa. I realized that not all of you know what rag bra is So this is the 49th rag bra next year will be 50. What? It's seven days. It's about 450 miles the route changes every year is about 20,000 plus cyclists Everybody is out here to have fun. It's not a race and I always tell people You see the best of America out here. These small towns are super charming There's wonderful people everywhere and there's really good food and pie It's very famous for pie and ice cream and home home-made goods And it's just a really good time. I did it for the first time in my life in 2012 And I've been hooked ever since it's just good vibes all the way for seven straight days and you know Makes you feel good about humanity We're at the first stop here rag ride 2022 and Amelia sees the bracelet maker Mike. He's the man Mike, how long have you been doing the spoke bracelets? I'm not exactly sure But I did talk to somebody last year who said I made her bracelet 12 years ago and she still had it So What inspired you to do this? Um, I worked at a bike shop in Houston and we were kind of fiddling around with this stuff and I When I moved away, I mailed a couple of them to the guys that worked at the shop and they seemed to like them So I Kept fiddling around with them. How long does it usually take to make a bracelet about two and a half minutes There we go, I can always add into it. Oh, it's perfect. Yeah, that's right on Are you excited to get your spoke bracelet? I'm super excited. I've seen yours forever Look at that. I'm here. It's a rag Ryan Deuce smile. Totally can't stop smiling So if you want to spoke bracelet, what's your address bent spokes calm? All right? Thank you so much my man Bike traffic jam my favorite kind of jams This bike looks really interesting. Those are some cool-looking bags. What are you doing? So we are riding 48 states over four years for addiction recovery awareness Each day we pedal for someone who's passed away from addiction and the whole end goal is to build a rehab This is state number 40, Iowa rag bride 2022. And what have you found out there in America? Oh man, so much love. There's so much love Absolutely, I see a lot of people with broken hearts Because of what addiction is done But I've seen to have hurt so many victory stories too. It's been incredible. What's up my friend? What's your name? Liam you feeling good. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, how long you've been riding your bike? 20-something days how many miles Almost a thousand a thousand miles. That's amazing. I'm proud of you, buddy First hill of rag bride How you feeling you're just cruising right on So rag rise all about making friends and I just made a new friend. How you doing great? What's your story? What are you been doing? We've been riding the West Coast of Michigan and Then we drove over here for rag bride. What inspired you to do such a silly thing. Oh I like to live by the ethos of why not Why not? Why do I why should I wait for something? I could slip and fall in the bathtub tomorrow, you know Yeah, exactly may as well. Just do it while you can Exactly. What do you love most about riding bikes? Connects you to people all the time you get to meet all kinds of great people Get to have good conversation And it gives you a sense of freedom We're on some Iowa roller coasters right now going up and down up and down. Whoo. Thank you Air Force So the Air Force guys Ride around and fix people's bikes. It's pretty cool So Amelia saw cows and just jumped off her bike. Here we go, baby cows No, can you tell me a bucket cap is a calf whose mom didn't want it or Whose mom couldn't take care of it in this case they both got rejected by their moms Yeah So this is your first time what do you think first time and here because of you. Yeah, it's amazing People are great. It's just the scenery is beautiful phenomenal, and you came from far away. Don't go to Canada. Yeah But not that kind of version. No Braggbri version Do you feel better now? I Feel like I'm part of a club This year I got the whole family and Leon's on his own bike How old is Leon now? So he just turned 11 and it's gonna ride the whole way carrying his own gear And what's the idea behind the bicycle happiness? So it's a small business from a woman and I help people bike as a lifestyle as a way of life Rather than just a sport or just something to do on rag break. I don't use your car You will be surprised how much you don't need that thing. So that's all what I'm all about So I just ran into Irene who I met many years ago on rag ride with her little son right here Who's not so little anymore and he would jump off the tandem and run alongside and then get back on the bike While they were moving and push the tandem because we're carrying all our gear Which is really hard to carry right a tandem with the child and the gear. So Amelia Boone You're 14 miles into rag ride. How you feeling? What are you noticing about this amazing event? I'm feeling great You know, I this is totally different than like bike events that I have thought of or seen I only got my first bike about two and a half years ago and biking culture kind of scared me Like cycling culture was a little bit scary to me and in what way? I mean, everybody seemed kitted out. Everybody had these really expensive bikes. Everybody seemed like they were doing it Just didn't feel friendly and welcoming rag ride is like totally the opposite of that It's kind of feels like that every person's ride as people are on any types of bikes Like do going at their own pace and just like having a good time, you know, it's no There's no pretension. There's nothing about it that makes you feel like you're out of place You could be riding a tricycle out here at every baby just as welcoming. So I love it So when you stop at rag ride, you never know how long it's gonna take you think oh I'm just gonna get a banana or something and you end up spending two hours talking to people and that's what happens to us Now we're getting back on it ride her own ride her own That's your mom. That's your mom I jumped on a road nine hundred miles with them and now we're doing red bride. You guys are awesome My god, it's so cool What do people have to do to win one of these shots they have to you show a unique talent or special gift That's crowd-pleasing. Do we have anybody with a special talent? I want to see this I don't drink alcohol Emilia So dry and had my girlfriend Ashley take her shoe off We poured the fire boy shot off of her feet into his mouth No Emilia you're next Okay Get ready to see some gnarly Look at these tones. Oh, yeah, okay, so the shot goes from you through the toes into his mouth Yes, oh, there we go. Oh my god Emilia Watch the fireball Do you still love rag-rack I still I love rag-rack even more now So I just found two of my favoritist people in the world They are riding their bikes across the United States of America. You may have heard of them ladies and gentlemen. Let's hear it for So you've been doing what for the past month or so This is day 44 We call it the Apollo mission because we're riding our awesome priority of all our bikes. Oh, yeah And what have you learned about the United States riding across the country? It's not flat well Yeah, you know the people are great It's where we go if you watch the news which we try not to do You know, you might think the country's divided and it is and there's all of this stuff that goes on But when you're on your bike and you're meeting people at little towns across America it basically It rebuilds your faith that America is gonna be okay because the people of America are the best We have had so much many many examples of trail angels and trail magic and it's It's heartwarming. I met these wonderful people in 2019 at rag-bride. Their energy is off the hook So go watch their videos and just get an injection of love and all the best of humanity, right? That's absolutely right. So I love the power of YouTube I don't just make goofy videos to make myself feel good The goal is to really to meet people and connect with people all over the world And I just found one of my followers. I've been in contact with him for a long time and we chat a lot on Instagram What's up my friend How you doing good good good good. So what's your story? What inspired you to get out here? Well, the first thing is fine with you Get out there get out there I'm talking to you get out that couch And I'm riding So I was feeling depressed and I was you guys are the first one. I was trying to End it ended my life and they get out there get out there I'm out here now Well, I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm proud of you. I'm out here. You got out here, brother I'm out here Right as much I can just thank you. Thank you. Yeah, you got it man Thank you for watching my channel so much. It means the world to me and I love connecting with people like you And I'm proud of you man Yeah Yeah, Renee. Hey, how you doing buddy? Good good Here we are in Anthony the halfway town and there's a lot of people here Can you tell me how this all came about like did you think of this great idea? I did it my buddy back there Kurt Paulson He thought of the idea to raise some money for the Anthony Iowa for the community fundraisers for the kids here in Town raise some money for the kids and help out the community Awesome. Has it been going well? Oh, yeah, we started about eight eight thirty nine o'clock We've been rolling ever since so it's been a been a full exciting day lost to see and lost to do so and how does it work? How do you win? Um, you go up there and pick out your number There's 20 numbers to pick from give the kids five dollars You get a pick out your number and we'll throw a chicken underneath underneath the board Whatever whatever spot the chicken poops on that's your number you win 50 bucks. What number are you three? Poop here Come on buddy pooping number three. You can do it. What number are we going for? I couldn't poop if there are a bunch of people standing around me So I don't know why we expect a chicken to be able to poop on demand Number 11 My lucky number, but it was already taken Would you find Amelia I found alpacas give it a kiss Oh, you just kissed an ass You might not think that Iowa is hilly, but it is indeed hilly at least today We've gone up and down up and down up and down, but I love it because I'm from Colorado So my name is on car. I'm originally from India. I've been living in New York City for past six six years And we are here out biking at rag brie Yeah, and how long have you been cycling? I've been cycling for just over an year now and started cycling after watching Ryan's videos And he's my inspiration to come here and start riding. Oh, that's so cool So if something happens to me here at rag brie Ryan is to blame. It's my fault Yeah, absolutely. So are you having fun? What do you think so far so far? It's been pretty good All the people here are very friendly Everyone is very helpful. People are nice. Everyone is having fun. Yeah, that's what rag brie is about That's right my friend. Yeah, right. We'll have a great week. Have fun. Thank you. Cheers We have found the priority 600x. Oh my god Absolutely. How's it going buddy? Good coming from Washington. I'm going to Maine on my 600x Yeah, and how this all happened. Well, we had some recent Mueller e-bikes and after three days of Some hellish stories and ended up in a post office In the middle of nowhere in Washington We sent them back and we called priority watched your video seen that you had this Took your advice called priority and within three days They had sent us a two brand new priorities overnight them to us so we can continue our journey Across the United States They knew that we were going across the United States And they did everything that they could to get us the bikes and we appreciate the people at priority bicycles for sure Awesome, man. And what's that? Why are you riding across the country? Well about a couple of months ago? Well about four months ago. We stopped watching television in the last eight years We've had a couple of different political parties and if you're listening to the talking heads You think everybody kind of hates one another And there we're all divided. I told my wife at 55 is to listen. I'm shutting everything down I'm gonna get on my bicycle and I'm gonna go across the country I'm gonna meet people just one by one my faith in humanity my faith in the love of people it's been so Shaken to the core and has been changed in such a miraculous way that That I can't even explain it there's been I'm making some videos myself and one of the videos I literally had to say to myself and say on my video Have you ever been loved on so hard that it hurts because when you come across this country and you meet people one by one you meet people in such a such a Profound and helpful and a gentle and a kind and a respectful way that it will change your heart and change your life And it has mine She's that grandma cruising Grandma's cruising hi, Milia. Hi. How you doing? Good Lots of hills today Lots of hills. I love it buddy. All right, ladies and gentlemen. We're rolling into Ida Grove We're done for the day and how far have we gone Amelia? 54 miles. Is that a new world record for you? The longest my butt has ever been on a bike. Yes. Yay Congratulations, we did it day one And ever since my first rag rye My mission every time I roll into the overnight town is to find the town pool And cool off and of course they have showers and then I usually camp near the pool Good job steps away from the pool just in case we want to swim again. Yeah, and This is my new dragonfly the Nemo dragonfly. I love this tent Amelia is very excited to cuddle tonight. I know they call this a two-person tent Well, it's made for cuddling. I know you know what I really love about this tent There's a door on this side and then there's a door on the other side So we don't have to climb over each other if we need to go to go pee in the middle of the night That's right and rag brides kind of a free-for-all where you find green grass and you can usually put up a tent I've never had any problems in the five years that I've done rag bride There's a lot of charters that have like their specific area so you can't camp there obviously like right over here That's a charter area, but we found this nice patch of grass next to I think it's a church You did an amazing job at packing lightly But what's one of the biggest items you have? So the biggest item that I have in here Are these beautiful posterior night splints that luckily fit perfectly in these green guru bags But this is for issues with my feet as a runner So I have a bad Achilles on one leg and I've got a bad planter on the other And I wear these boots all the time when I first met Ryan He was like what you're wearing what to sleep And now I just kick them in the middle of the night Yeah All right now I'm gonna take you on a tour of Ida Grove to show you what the tent cities look like pretty much all Overnight towns look just like this tents everywhere. It's really intense Get it. Whoo. Look at that. Hey everybody. You're on YouTube Look at Amelia ice cream and I'm happy ice cream and she's happy. Oh, yeah We are outside of the best gas station in the world Casey's I don't know where the sign is but believe me. It's a Casey's I promise you and they have awesome treats I got an ice cream cone a donut and look some healthy juice and a glass bottle, which is great And Amelia's gonna party tonight. I got booze. Oh, yeah girl ice cream and booze We're going for it and we're not the only ones here in the parking lot as you can see everybody else is having a gas station fiesta We ride it down. Yeah, like a mouse Is that like a piece of corn? There's definitely corn lightning going on right here Corn lightning and we got on the body. Are you got corn on your butt? I love the colors, man What's the name of your team? It's a team cold babies cold babies. What's what's the significance? Well, cold baby is a is a bush light. Oh, okay This is year number 10 the way I always put it is this is the best of Americana, right? So Iowa literally rolls out the red carpet for everybody So it's a spirit of true freedom, but everybody's so hospitable and has a fantastic time but truly like because your cell phone doesn't work because you have to rely on the goodness of strangers because you have to You know figure out away from point A to point B. It's sort of it's it's America's last great You know adventure in terms of but group adventure You can go on a hike in the woods and you can go for three or four days straight and I have to worry about You know anything or otherwise, but you're doing this as a community of 15 or 18 or 20,000 people And so it's the last big great community outing where people can go and have fun So come and see us though by the way. Yeah, I was ready for you So out of Grove has some serious Castles all over the little town. There's castles everywhere and I'm gonna take you on a little tour of all the castles And look at that Knights and shining armor as you ride Into the town somebody here really loves Mid-evil times this one right here is my favorite of all the castles and I to Grove and it looks like it's a skate palace Maybe a roller rink That's pretty rad This is with that adult the coolest roller rink. I have ever seen in my life, dude This is the coolest skating rink ever. Yeah, and look here's all the skates Look at that Everybody come to out of Grove and let's go skating Even this bridge has little castley-looking things. What are those called? You know turrets. That's what I meant to say. Oh Man, yeah, we should go get our tent and move it to right there Man, I'm a big fan out of Grove Maybe we should move here and there's another castley looking building not the best but still has the castle motif And that concludes our tour of Ida Grove's castles There's probably more but we want to go to bed now Here we are Here we are First night in a tent together I'm excited. We have a great spot. The weather is perfect weather's great could have been so hot and humid, but it's not Right Bride day one that was pretty special We met so many cool people and saw somebody beautiful fields of corn and actually some hills We're some hills. We ate some fun food. Yeah Saw some super cool little towns. Yeah, that's right It just reminds me of how much I love Iowa. I hadn't been here since rag brie 2019, so And I'm so I mean I've said this a lot, but I'm so happy to share this with you The magic of rag brie. Yeah, you excited for day two. Oh, I totally am we're going to Pocahontas How can you not be excited? That's true. We're not gonna go to sleep right now because it's still light out We can hear music blaring, but Close we're tired When I'm not just Let's do it. Let's do it. It's time for a donkey show here we go