Originally Posted by
bikemig
Sure but that's a completely different story than the one the organizers are telling, right? Why else start a competing ride on the same dates unless they wanted to damage Ragbrai?
The organizers are mad and the question is why. Your story makes more sense than the one that is being reported.
By the way, why not just say that? The organizers could have said that they think the Register is doing a poor job of running Ragbrai and it was time to move on.
What in the world does the Carson King story have to do with this decision?
Good questions! There's a lot I still don't know about the situation; lots of speculation going around.
Perhaps TJ wanted to do a tie-in with Carson for RAGBRAI and then the tweet thing put the kibosh on that, I dunno. I've met TJ once or twice, and I know cycling people who've worked with him regularly, so I find it hard to believe that he would want to damage RAGBRAI itself.
I could also be naive, too.
