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The following policies and procedures apply to our transportation service both from Chicago to the start of RAGBRAI and from the end of RAGBRAI to Chicago.

  • Click Here for more information about planning your individual arrival and departure.
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Services Registration
As an official RAGBRAI charter service, our transportation service is only available to officially registered participants of RAGBRAI. Unfortunately we cannot allow anyone to travel with us who does not have an official RAGBRAI wristband number.

Registering for our transportation service does not automatically register you to participate in RAGBRAI itself or Pork Belly Ventures or any other charter service, and registering to participate in RAGBRAI or for Pork Belly Ventures or any other charter service does not automatically register you for our transportation service. You must register and pay for our transportation service, RAGBRAI itself, and Pork Belly Ventures or any other charter service separately on your own. We strongly recommend registering for everything at the same time and as early as possible.

  • Click Here for more information about registering for RAGBRAI itself.
  • Click Here for more information about Pork Belly Ventures charter service.

Arrival Deadline and Departure Times
We will not have set departure times. Instead, we have set arrival deadline times when all participants must have arrived at our transportation staging points with their bike and baggage ready to be loaded. If you have not arrived at our transportation staging point by the time we are ready to leave (as quickly or as long as that is after the arrival deadline time) we cannot wait for you.

We will keep consistent arrival deadline times in Chicago before the start of RAGBRAI and at the RAGBRAI ending town. Accordingly, our actual arrival times at the RAGBRAI starting town of and back in Chicago after the end of RAGBRAI will vary each year based on the actual towns that are selected as the start and end of RAGBRAI.

Event Communications
Cell phone reception during RAGBRAI can be unreliable because the cell phone towers serving the towns RAGBRAI passes through can be overwhelmed, particularly the overnight towns. If you need to contact us, it is best to plan on making calls during the day when you are on the road. Also, a text message is much more likely to go through than a phone call.

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Bicycle Illinois Merchandise
In order to remember your journey and share your experience with others, a Bicycle Illinois t-shirt is included in registration.

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Bicycle Illinois jerseys, water bottles, polo shirts, baseball hats and extra t-shirts can all be ordered before the event.

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Other Services

Other than the route in the RAGBRAI ending town we will not provide any services such as SAG vehicle support, mechanical or medical services, or in town transportation.

  • Click Here for more information about charter service during the week of RAGBRAI.

Click on one of the links at left for more overall information about our transportation service.

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