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RAGBRAI® TRANSPORTATION
Group One Way Transportation

Overall InformationSelection BasisGroup AcceptanceChanges and Cancellations
Individual Group Member InformationAfter the Regular Registration Deadline


Overall Information
If you want everyone in your group to travel together, you should register together through our group registration form. We consider a group to be one entity and will not split them up. Only one form should be submitted for each group. Filling out the Group Registration form does not guarantee the availability of any seats for your group.

You should only register as a group if the number of people in your group is greater than the number of seats currently available for the one way trip you want. Otherwise, you should register individually because seats are currently available for every member of your group.

  • Click Here for the current one way seat availability.
  • Click Here for our Group Registration Form.
  • Click Here to register for individual one way transportation.

A group can be as few as two people and every group must have a designated leader and a unique name. If you registered for the RAGBRAI event itself as a group, we highly recommend using the same group name and leader for consistency. If you need to come up with a new group name, we recommend having some fun and making it something unique! We will let you know if your group name has already been taken.

On the group registration form you must provide the names, contact information, and type of bicycle for up to 10 members of your group (including the group leader). You can also register for other optional extra services and merchandise at that time. All extra services and merchandise items may also be added later at bicycleillinois.com (subject to availability). There is no additional fee to register as a group and you never know – there may be another group waiting for your group to balance them out in the opposite direction of travel!

Submitting the group registration form is a commitment to buy for the number of people listed and extra services and merchandise items on your group registration form. There will only be one payment for the entire group as a whole using the provided credit card and it will be the responsibility of the group leader to collect payment from individual group members as appropriate – no individual group member will pay us.

We will notify the group leader after processing your group registration but not before, so you should make sure your group information is correct and expect that your credit card can be charged at any time.

Group registrations will only be accepted until the regular registration deadline.

  • Click Here for more information about One Way Transportation After the Regular Registration Deadline.

Selection Basis
Groups will generally, but not necessarily, be accepted in the order in which they registered by matching groups of similar sizes, and it will be easier to accommodate smaller groups than larger ones. We will try to accommodate larger groups to the best of our ability, but they may have to wait longer to be selected. Larger groups may want to register in several smaller groups.

For example, suppose a group of ten people registers for transportation from Chicago to the start of RAGBRAI, and a group of five also registers for that same one way trip after them. If a group of five people registers for the opposite trip from the end of RAGBRAI to Chicago, we will process the two groups of five people each, and the group of ten will still be on the waiting list.

Group Acceptance
We will process your group registration when doing so will not cause us to exceed the number of open seats allowed. Once your group is accepted we guarantee seats will be available for every member of your group.

Groups that are not accepted immediately upon initial registration will be placed on a waiting list. When the requested number of seats become available your group registration will be processed. We will inform all unfulfilled group registrations on the waiting list if a trip sells out.

Changes and Cancellations
As long as your group is on our waiting list, you can add, delete, or replace any group members or cancel your entire group registration at no charge.

If the group leader cancels their registration, a new group leader must be selected. Group leaders will not be allowed to cancel until a new group leader is specified. If your entire group cancels and is reinstated, you will lose all priority and go to the end of the waiting list.

If individual seats are available, group members may also still register individually and be deleted from the group. If someone who is listed as a member of a group registers individually on their own, we will delete their name from the group IF AND ONLY IF WE NOTICE IT. However, we cannot guarantee that we will delete them from the group. If a group is charged for a group member who is no longer with the group and this individual had already registered on their own instead, we will issue a refund following our standard refund policies.

After the group registration is processed, we will consider your group registration to be complete and cannot process any changes for your group. Cancellation fees will apply if any groups or individual group members fail to cancel their registration before the credit card is charged. Please note, there will not be any type of "priority" registration for anyone who was not a member of your group when its registration was accepted.

All cancellation and refund policies will be processed on an individual basis after your group is accepted and individuals who want to cancel should request a refund directly from us, not from their group leader. For example, if three members of a group of five people want to cancel after their group has been charged, there will be three cancellation fees, not just one, and refunds will be issued to each individual, not to the group leader.

Individual Group Member Information
After your group is accepted, all group members (including the group leader) must individually also fill out our online Individual Group Member Registration Form so we can get their personal information and they can sign our waiver.

  • Click Here for our Individual Group Member Registration Form.

The Individual Group Member Registration Form should not be filled out until your group registration has been accepted and your credit card has been charged.

After the Regular Registration Deadline

  • Click Here for our policies regarding group one way transportation after the regular registration deadline.

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