Pork Belly Udate-All Shuttle Rosters

We have sent roster lists out!

If you are on any of our Pre-RAGBRAI Shuttles, please check your emails for the most recent updates that have the shuttle rosters for your appropriate departure locations. There have been some requested changes to the lists since the update, and we have tried to capture them in the PDFs linked below. These links will continue to be updated as changes come in. If you have emailed us but not received a response about your requested change, we are either still working on it or have not received it.

If you think you signed up for a shuttle but did not get an email, or if you got an email but your name is not on any of the lists, please contact us immediately!

If you aren't using our shuttle services - please just scroll past the rosters to the "Reminders" section of this email!

Table of Contents

1. E/W Rosters
2. Des Moines to Onawa Rosters
3. Omaha to Onawa Rosters
4. Preparing your bike for Transport
5. Important Reminders!

We hope you all have a safe and memorable long weekend celebrating America's 250th!

Below are your Dubuque to Onawa bus assignments!

We have built these rosters around the information that you provided to us in your application and/or detail form. At this point, to request a change on the E/W Shuttle, you’ll need to write to dave@pkbelly.com. That’s the only way to change your assignment now. Please note: There are a few people who have not selected a departure day/time, and are not on any rosters. If this describes you, please contact Dave immediately to get your bus assignment. THANK YOU to Dave for handling all the bus assignments on the E/W Shuttle. 

Rosters are linked below, including names and group names. You can click on the header of each to download a PDF. Thank you for using our E/W Shuttle to the start town. 

Friday, July 17th - 1 PM

Friday, July 17th - 3 PM

Saturday, July 18th - 7 AM

Saturday, July 18th - 8 AM

Saturday, July 18th - 9 AM

Click here to read our chapter from The June Letter Update about the E/W Shuttle, in case you missed it!

Below are your Des Moines to Onawa bus assignments!

We have built these rosters around the information that you provided to us in your application and/or detail form. At this point, to request a change, you’ll need to write to dave@pkbelly.com. That’s the only way to change your assignment now. Don't bother adding a group name to your application or changing your departure preference on the application, it's too late for us to collect changes made that way. Write to Dave and request a change.

THANK YOU to Dave for handling all the bus assignments for the Des Moines Shuttles. 

Rosters are linked below, including names and group names. You can click on the header of each to download a PDF. Thank you for using our Des Moines Shuttle to the start town. 

Please remember, both Des Moines to Onawa buses depart at 9:15 AM. More info on that after the shuttle rosters.

Saturday, July 18th - 9:15 AM

Click here to read our chapter from The June Letter Update about the Des Moines Shuttle to Onawa, in case you missed it!

Below are your Omaha to Onawa bus assignments!

We have built these rosters around the information that you provided to us in your application and/or detail form. At this point, to request a change, you’ll need to write to kay@pkbelly.com. That’s the only way to change your assignment now. Don't bother adding a group name to your application or changing your departure preference on the application, it's too late for us to collect changes made that way. Write to Kay and request a change.

If you registered for the Omaha to Onawa shuttle, but do not see your name on any of the rosters: most likely, you did not complete your Detail Form. Kay has been trying to reach out to all of those who had incomplete information. Please contact us as soon as possible by filling out your Detail Form AND emailing kay@pkbelly.com to get your bus assignment. Note: You may not get your preferred time, especially the longer you wait.

THANK YOU to Kay for handling all the bus assignments for the Omaha Shuttles. 

Roster links appear below, in chronological order, including names and group names. You can click on the Button of each to download a PDF. Thank you for using our Omaha shuttle to the start town. 

Saturday, July 18th

Click here to read our chapter from The June Letter Update about the Omaha Shuttle to Onawa, in case you missed it!

For any of the Pre-RAGBRAI Shuttles, the links above have been updated since the original Shuttle-Specific Rosters were emailed. If you have requested an update, please check the rosters linked above to be sure that it has been recorded. These links will continue to be updated as changes come in. If you have emailed us but not received a response about your requested change, we are either still working on it or have not received it. Feel free to check in with us next week if you still don't see your change reflected on the linked lists by Monday.

Preparing/Protecting your bike for Truck Transport

This info is available at our website, and will be published again in our June Letter, but we want to be sure that everyone reads and understands it. We are careful with all bikes, yet must remind you that:

PORK BELLY VENTURES DOES NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE TO BIKES THAT ARE NOT FULLY BOXED. 

When transporting bikes on trucks, we've had only a few mishaps in more than 20 years--truck contents shifted and gouged the top tube of a beautiful, completely unprotected bike. Somehow, another nice bike got scratched in transit. Since then, we have recommended that all Porkers fully box bikes for truck transport. Keep reading.

ALSO NOTE: CARBON OR COMPOSITE WHEELS CAN BE DAMAGED BY HANGING AN UNBOXED BIKE FOR TRANSPORT. If you have carbon wheels, it's your responsibility to see that it’s loaded properly by doing all of these things:

• Contact Dave Kennedy now at dave@pkbelly.com and let him know about your wheels.
• Prepare a large handlebar tag for your bike that says “DON’T HANG THIS BIKE.” Present the bike for loading with your tag on the bars.
• Remind us again when handing us the bike at the time of bike-loading so that we will load your bike without hanging it. 

If for some reason fully boxing isn't possible for you, then here are some suggestions. 

• At any hardware store, you can buy cheap pipe insulation to protect your frame's tubing. 
• Tape it on the main triangle---top tube, down tube, and seat tube, forks, and chainstays. 
• Cover your rear derailleur and other fragile components. 
• Remove the computer or other accessories from your handlebars and frame. 

Experience tells us that most of those on the East/West Shuttle will bring unboxed bikes to Dubuque for transport on our trucks. Consequently, our semi trailers are outfitted to transport bikes in various ways:

• to hang unboxed bikes in rows--they're hung by a wheel, with the opposite wheel secured to D-rings in the truck floor by bungee cord
• to wall off bikes with cardboard
• to tie off bikes to the walls of the trailer
• to carry boxed bikes and boxed tandems, unboxed tandems, trikes, recumbents, trailers, and whatever you plan to ride across Iowa!

Please take the above precautions to protect your frame and components. On your Detail Form, there's a place to note the type of bike we will be transporting for you, and whether it will be boxed or unboxed. Bottom line, we'll load your bike in whatever condition you like, but if it's not in a box, we assume no responsibility for damage.

Finally, if you take our advice and use pipe insulation or other packing material, plan to store it either in your hard shell bike case or in your duffel. We can't store it loose on our trucks. All bike boxes should be flattened for weeklong storage. 

Don't forget to Download and Read

The June Letter

This comprehensive document covers almost every question you might have, and will be a good reference document for your Week in the Corn. Soon our "Week in the Corn" update - a guide to the meals, vendors, and entertainment you can look forward to in Pork Camp!

It's getting late in the season to be changing things around - if you need to make changes in your registration, please email us at: info@pkbelly.com.

Before you go - a few reminders!

Reserve your Optional Suppers

If you're joining us for weeklong services, please take a look at our previous update about Optional Meals and order what you would like by July 5th. The complete menu is not visible on the PBV Registration, we've abbreviated them:

• Monday Optl Supper, Roasted Pork Loin & Sides
• Tuesday Optl Supper, Smoked Pulled Pork & Sides
• Thursday Optl Supper, Spaghetti Dinner

The Vegetarian/Gluten Free options are not spelled out when you go to the registration page. Please refer to the menus listed above for those, and select the appropriate day. You MUST have completed your Detail Form with the appropriate Dietary Restriction to receive the alternative.

To select and pay for any of these optional suppers,

please LOGIN to your account at pkbelly.com,

click EDIT, scroll down to "Additional Services",

make your selections, and then make payment.

If you need help with your login credentials,

write to us: info@pkbelly.com.

The Detail Form

The Detail Form collects some simple but important info that we need in order to better serve you! This is important, friends, and we appreciate you reading these instructions carefully and completing your form ASAP so we can make sure that shuttle assignments and meal options are properly accounted for. We asked to have these completed by June 15th - as shuttle assignments and catering information is being compiled it's a critical source of information. EVERYONE who uses any services of Pork Belly Ventures - even if it's only a shuttle - should complete at least some of the form. Depending on what services you are using, some questions may not apply, and that's fine. You can read more about the Detail Form, including complete instructions, here.

Account Balances

Just a friendly reminder that your account balances were due in full by May 15th. You may pay your balance via credit card by logging into your pkbelly.com account. If you'd like to save the credit card processing fees, you can mail us a check, but since they are past due please let us know if you'll be doing this. As of today, we will begin removing accounts with no payments beyond the deposit, so if you have an outstanding balance please help us out and write to us with your intentions at info@pkbelly.com. Thanks!

Cancellation Deadlines & Process

We remind you of our Cancellation Policy and Refund Deadline, so that there's no misunderstanding. June 15th was the last day to cancel and get a 90% refund, for any reason, if you did not choose the cancellation protection. From here on out, we don't make any refunds, unless you took our cancellation protection when you initially registered. If so - then you have extended your 90% refund to Wednesday, July 15th at 10:00 PM CST. If you have our protection and cancel by email by 10:00 PM on July 15th, we will make a 90% refund by check (mailed to you after RAGBRAI). After July 15th at 10:00 PM, we're sorry, we cannot make any refunds in any instances.

If you need to cancel services: Please send us an email!

Simply write to us at info@pkbelly.com. If you're due a refund, you can include your mailing address in the text of the email. An email establishes the date of your cancellation. It makes it possible for us to look you up by name, or if the name is very common, we can look you up by email address. And it allows us to copy members of our team on the reply and keep everyone in the loop. We are scouting and traveling to other events between now and RAGBRAI, and we don't promise that we will receive voice messages. Email is the way to cancel some or all services on your registration.

Do not go into your registration form and remove all services, please. This complicates the process on our end, causing us to search for confirmation emails and reconstruct your registration to determine whether a refund is due and the amount. Simply write us an email, and we'll take it from there.

We'll be in touch when we have more news to share, friends!

Cheers, from all of us here at Pork Belly Ventures!