Pork Belly Update-It's Getting Real

June 25, 2025

Dear Friends,

 

This is the time for dotting your I's and crossing your T's. We don't have much time, and we'll get right to several reminders and topics...

Two-Way Bike-Shipping Order Deadline, June 25

That's today. If you plan to ship a bike to and from Iowa for RAGBRAI, your deadline to order labels is today.

 

If you need one-way shipping, you'll contact Pete@pkbelly.com, and we can give you a little more time.

 

Here's a link to our update on bike shipping:

Bike Shipping Update

Your Official RAGBRAI

Registration Number

We are told that all registered riders will get their official six-digit number soon via email. The RAGBRAI folks may be a little behind on this. Please hang on. (We can't answer emails on this... write to info@RAGBRAI.com if you need help.)

Optional Dinners

Optional Dinner Menus for Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday have been published, and we've called all caterers to keep them posted on numbers. Some of them are setting limits. If you want a dinner or two or three, login and select. Here are the menus and daily details...

 

Our Optional Dinner Menus

D E A D L I N E

June 15 was the last day to cancel and get a 90% refund. After June 15th, we don't make refunds.

 

With this exception...

 

If you took our cancellation protection when you initially registered, then you have extended your 90% refund to Wednesday, July 16th at 10:00 PM. If you have our protection and cancel by email by 10:00 PM on July 16th, we will make a 90% refund. After July 16th at 10:00 PM, we make no refunds.

Are You Flying with Your Bike?

And more importantly, do you need assistance with packaging your bike after RAGBRAI in Guttenberg? If so, do this now!

 

Write to pete@pkbelly.com and let him know that you will need assistance with packing up your bike after RAGBRAI. He will put a charge of $100 on your PBV registration. If you don't pre-order, you can pay $100 cash on the day, but you will be served only after everyone on the list is taken care of.

The Detail Form

Sick of hearing this? We're pretty tired of typing it too.

 

Login to your PBV account. Scroll down.

Massage Appointments

Some days are getting pretty full. Here's the Massage Request Form. Fill in all the blanks, please. Julie will reply.

 

PBV RAGBRAI

MASSAGE PRICING:

30 min. @ $50

45 min. @ $70

60 min. @ $90

Links You May Need, in case you missed them....

 

Link to Guttenberg Parking and Lunches

 

Our March 28 Update on Parking in Guttenberg

 

Your June Letter

This letter answers 97.8% of your questions.

 

Before you write with questions,

consult your June Letter.

If you can't find your answer, write to Tammy@pkbelly.com,

and allow a little longer than usual for a response.

(Some responses may include a page number

and the June Letter PDF.)

 

An archive of the 2025 updates appears on our home page at pkbelly.com, and on the FREE Pork Belly Mobile App.

There are many other things, friends, that this update is NOT reminding you about. We know that most of you are on it! Are you setting aside some time for reading the June Letter, dotting your I's, and crossing your T's? RAGBRAI is coming soon, and we and our team are working hard to be ready for you!

 

All our best!

 

Tammy and Pete  

Pork Belly Ventures LLC 

Tammy: 808-375-8921 c, tammy@pkbelly.com

Pete: 402-681-2613 c, pete@pkbelly.com

 www.pkbelly.com