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RAGBRAI began in 1973 when Des Moines Register feature writers John Karras and Donald Kaul decided to go on a bicycle ride across Iowa. Both men were avid cyclists. Karras challenged Kaul to do the ride and write articles about what he experienced. Kaul agreed to do it, but only if Karras also did the ride.
It was Ermal Cleon Fraze, born in Indiana but grew up in Ohio. He invented it 1959, received a patent in 1963 and sold it to Alcoa. The Pittsburgh Brewing Company was first â¦to use the design. By 1965, nearly 75 percent of U.S. breweries were using it.