Challenge is to be a fundraiser for Camp Courageous
Brian Havlik had talked for years about wanting to tackle Iowa’s
popular summer bike ride called RAGBRAI, and with his 40th birthday
approaching, he decided to get serious.
Havlik, 38, turns 39 in
December, and has decided next summer is the year to complete the
Register’s Great Annual Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, a 500-mile trek from
the Missouri River to the Mississippi River over a week in July.
But he’s not one to follow the norm.
“I
said, “I want to do RAGBRAI, but I want to do it my way,’ ” Havlik
recalls telling his wife about a month ago. “I said. ‘I’m going to do a
wheelie.’ ”
It started out as a joke, but then the North Liberty
man who runs a custom tile business primarily in Cedar Rapids, thought
to himself: “I think I can do it.”
Havlik’s goal is to ride 100 miles of RAGBRAI doing a wheelie
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