It's a ride with 2,000 cyclists. The grass fields were usually littered with bikes - bikes were everywhere. My ti bike was lying on the grass sometimes. Actually, it was only hanging somewhere at this rest stop 'cause Kmerzhad had spotted some bike racks off by a corn field.

Sadly, the guy who had his bike run over, was either friends with heart attack guy or the guy who wascarried out in an ambulance at dinner on Tuesday - he kept saying how he'd in the emergency room with his friend all night, went back early to pack his tent & his friend's for the trip back, went riding... and poof went his bike.

The carbon fork & handlebars were definitely snapped on the bike - the frame looked fine, but could have been twisted... However, everyone saw it flex under the tires... and... do you really want to keep a frame that's been run over twice?

Becky - we got a late start on Wednesday (I don't think we left tent city till 9 or so), so you were probably long gone when it was run over.

That was the stop where the mennonites had really nicely woke up at 4 am to make 1200 homemade donuts for cyclists... so I was hanging out a bit to let my donut digest.

Hopefully they didn't make him ride to the finish in the same sag wagon that ran over his bike, but I didn't stick around to find out.