 Hello, my friends, and welcome to episode two of my Rag Brie series. Today, we're leaving the main route to get dirty on 57 miles of beautiful Iowa gravel. If you like what you see, please subscribe and comment and tell all your weird biker friends to watch my channel. Okay, let's do this. Good morning. It is always very hard to sleep in at Rag Brie if you're camping near lots of other people because people get up early. I slept really well and we're ready to rock and roll. It's gravel day. Anybody need a shamer? So what do you have here, my friend? So I was going through my bags this morning and I found all these letters that my family made me and you got to look at this one, Ryan. Look at that. What does she say on it? She says she's proud of me. This is the day before, told me to have fun. Don't die. Don't die. And she says, if you see Ryan, tell him hello from me. So Adriana, I saw Ryan and I said that you said hello, baby. Thank you, soft grass next to the lake, awesome place to sleep. Good morning. You know it. Just don't touch him. I wouldn't touch him if I were you. Yeah, he looks dangerous. All right. Team Doosers say goodbye to the big ride. We're hitting gravel. We're going on dirt. Who's coming with us? It's time to hit the dirt. Good to see you. Good to see all of you. Good morning, Jack. How are you doing, bud? Morning. How was day one? Good. Cheers. Lovely. You look good in pink. My name's Kell. I'm from Guam. Guam? You came all the way from Guam. Ryan. No, for gravel. For gravel. You came for the pie, man. Okay. You came for the pie. Yeah, man. It's so good to see you, brother. It's good to see you. We're going to have so much fun out there. Yeah, dude. Okay, Alan. We need to say something very important. Here we go. No crashes. No flaties. No whimmies. There we go. This is really a dream come true. We have people from all over the United States and Guam. We have little kids, families, big kids. It really is special. And we're out here in the cornfields of Iowa riding rag brie with all my new friends. Good morning, Jayden. How long has he been singing that song? He's been singing it ever since he's been watching your video. So any tunnel, we have to sing it. We love it. You know, some of these Midwestern states get a bad rap for just being boring and flat and not a whole lot of natural beauty, but I love riding out here on these country roads. They're wide open. You can see for miles, there's really something unique and special to it. What did you just say? This is my first time riding. How did it feel? Good. It was good. Yeah. Yeah. I had a good time. What do you think about rag brie so far? I'm having an awesome time. Yeah. So this is kind of hilarious. Do you realize how much dust you're getting all over your legs here? You can't even get it off. You're just getting all of his dust. I love it. Look at Danny. Yeah. It's time for my first Casey's stop of rag brie. This is what it looks like outside. Everybody's out here having fun, drinking, having a good time. I'm going to show you what it looks like inside the store. Oh yeah. We've got a few people in here. Ryan Goody's at Casey's. All right. We've got the pizza. Look at that breakfast pizza. It looks good. Nice. Nice. Good. Good. Keep it coming. Oh, thank you. You're welcome, Ryan. I got pizza. I got breakfast pizza. Jayden, look at all those snacks you got at the store. Did you paper that? You just run out of there. What's in the Casey's breakfast pizza, you ask? This is cheese. It looks like scrambled eggs and green peppers. Pretty darn good. Best gas station pizza in America. And the best place to eat it is just right in the parking lot. Cheers, everybody. This is super cute. Jayden is leading us in stretches. All right, Jayden, what do we do? Put the arms out? Arms out, everybody. There we go. So what's the name of your team here? What's up chicken butt? And this is your whole family? Yeah, we got Debbie, my wife, Madison. My oldest. And Caitlin. And if you catch us on rag ride and you click like a chicken, you get a prize. Oh, right on. I love your helmets, too. All right. Look at those fun helmets. Vamos, Wilson. Vamo, vamo, vamo. Si se puede. Si se puede. I'm glad you did, too. So how do you get into cycling and all this weirdness? I got into cycling back when I was about eight, nine years old. And my dad said, hey, the family's now a cycling family. We're going to ride. And I said, I don't want to. And he said, that's great. You cannot want to when you're out on the bicycle riding it. And kind of went from there. But grew there, took a break in the military service. And I made my lovely wife. There she is. Hi. And so we were in, when the pandemic hit, we needed something to do. And so we started spin biking in the living room. And so over the years now it's developed up into us riding. We started riding with the Wounded Warrior Project and riding with our fellow injured veterans. And then, um, yeah, now we're, now we're out here riding with Ryan Van Doos or Dream Come True. So yeah. You having fun or what? This is beyond fun, man. You're not here. You're sucking. Go, Tasha. Go, Tasha. That's your wife. That's your wife. Bestie wife in the world. There she goes. My wife and I, we've got three kids. And I love my little girls, JL, Rock, Helen, Gideon. And, uh, all of them were riding by like four years old. And we've just become like one of those cycling families. My daughters know that I really like doing it and we like riding as a family. And, uh, we picked up on your channel. And I think it was the Tour de Vide was the first one. And I was like, girls, do you want to do that? And they're like, we want to do that. So the goal is, uh, to do that as a family. Uh, before the youngest one, our, our, our, sorry, our oldest one, JL, goes off to college. So we're trying to, we're trying to kind of scout it out. Tasha and I, this is our first time doing something like this. This is the most miles I've ever ridden in one shot. I think, uh, I shattered my shoulder recently, uh, and got like the, the green thumb from my surgeon, like the day before I came out here. And she hasn't ridden more than 15 miles ever. And she knocked out, it was at 76 miles yesterday. And we're at 20 some, almost 30 miles for today. And, uh, who knows, maybe we'll knock out the century. But honestly, like it's not hard. It's just putting yourself a little uncomfortable getting out here, being with team dozer is awesome. Everyone's super supportive. And we're all just keeping an eye on each other. And we're just, we're just rolling along. Even turtles finish. It's the greatest thing. I love that brother. You're going to do it. You're going to do it. We're stoked about this. And hopefully our girls will be coming with us next year. Looking good. Looking good. Let's bring them in everybody. Come on, all the way through. Yeah. Nice. Nice. Nice. I knew you'd find us. It's not difficult. Not only are you doing rag brie, but you are carrying all of your gear. How's that been? It's been a trial. Uh, the Hills, whoever says I was flat is lying to you. It's not mountains, but these Hills, they'll get you. They'll get you. So I've gone granny gear and I've gone great granny gear. And it takes me a long time to get there, but I get there. Look at the mental type. You saw tired. Doing great, Tasha. Doing great, Mary. Let's do this. Let's do this. And I forgot to mention, you're not on my team. This is our team. You are all dozers. Okay. You're all dozers. Oh. I must say, lakes in Iowa are not cold. They are like easy to get into. What's up, daddy? Enjoying this break. Look how clean my shirt is. Perfect. It's just been amazing. It's been all the people. I mean, the ride is almost secondary compared to all the people we're meeting along the way and all the love and support. We were fully bagging it yesterday. We're, you know, 100 pound bikes and people are coming up behind us on the hill. You got it. You got it. You know, cheering us on. And so we start cheering other people on, you know, you kind of almost have to. It's just been super welcoming and super warm. Everyone's been so friendly the whole time. All right, team dozer. Are we all chilled out? Yeah. Okay. Let's go warm back up then. Look at that cool barn. That's a beautiful barn. You look real sexy. This is really fun. I have never ridden rag brie as a team. And this morning when we started out, I thought for sure we'd all get scattered and everybody would kind of do their own thing. But here we are all together loving life. The gravel today has been very gravelly. And by that, I mean, it's been pretty loose gravel. Pretty slow moving. I'm glad I have wider tires to deal with this. But you know what? Going slow can sometimes be frustrating. But on the other hand, it's kind of nice to go slow. Gives you more time to look around and enjoy the beauty. Are we feeling dozers? We are about to hit our first legitimate hill. Maybe the biggest hill I've ever seen in Iowa. Yeah, you look awesome. You look awesome. You got this, Allen. Good job, good job. Way to go, way to go. What's up, riding for two? You got little legs. You got this buddy. Yeah, run it up, run it up. Run it up. Way to go, way to go. Nice job, Wilson. Nice job. Bien hecho, amigo. Si se puede, si se puede. I didn't think I was going to make it, but I did. Yeah, you did. I've met most of these people in the last couple days, and I already love them all. I love you. We saw this really cool old farmhouse off the side of the road, and we're going to go check it out. Come on, Scooby-dozers. Let's go check, let's go check out the haunted house. Yo, there's a door right here. Door right here. There are nails sticking up. Wow, look at this. I wonder what the history is with this place, huh? It's interesting to think that there was probably kids conceived and kids born in this house, and there's some farmer that after he was done building, it was like, I've made it. I've made my house, I've got my farm, and now it sits here dilapidated, just falling apart. All right, good work, everybody. We did that without getting any splinters or nails in our feet. I have no idea where all the other gravel riders are. It's just us out here. I think it's probably because we're taking our time and most people are in front of us. But that's how we like to do it. We like to chill. Team Doosers in the back of the pack, but we all know those who have the most fun win, right? Yeah, gravel day ending on grass. Here we go. This looks nice and flat and soft to me. You did it, you're awesome. You did it. Way to go, way to go. Yeah, brother. We did it, we did it. Yeah. It always feels good to finish a long day on a bike. No matter what, no matter what. Yeah. Are you okay, Danny? I will be. I'm agnossious and starting to cramp. I'll be good though. Be good. We love you, Danny. Love you all. So first of all, thank you so much for watching this video. And second, do you want to join Team Doosers at next year's Rag Brie 2024? I promise. Lots of Olays and good times and high fives. And as you can see, we are very inclusive of all ages and all abilities. We're all about fun. We're actually just a big bunch of dorks. Kind of like Revenge of the Nerd style on bikes. So if you want to join our team, go to the Rag Brie website, like you normally would, and there's a drop-down menu to choose your team and choose Team Dooser. And then from there, we will be giving you some more information here in the upcoming weeks and months about how we're all going to stick together this year and all camp together as one family with some sort of a charter organization. So go sign up. We'll see you next summer. And it's going to be so much fun. And also, don't forget, it's time to get off your couch, get out there, and start training.