GRABAAWR
Updates
General Company Wide Updates
GRABAAWR Specific Updates for the 2024 Season
5/29/24
- Our main lodging site in Tomahawk has changed to the
Tomhawk Middle School. Click
Here for more information.
1/2/24
- You will need to call the Baraboo hotel
directly to make reservations since they will be switching brands
to AmericInn just before the tour and
online reservations for Thursday, June 13th through
Friday, June 14th, 2024 are not available through their current website. Click
Here for more information.
12/19/23
- Registration is now open for GRABAAWR 2024! Click
Here to register!
12/15/23
- Participants who register on a volunteer
basis will follow the same price schedule as
non-riders. All registrations on a volunteer
basis require prior approval.
- We have implemented an increasing price schedule
for non-riders and volunteers. The price of
the full tour for non-riders and volunteers
has increased by $30.00 to $269.00 initially,
and will increase by $30.00 every two months
beginning Feb. 1st through Apr. 1st. The price
of each riding day of a partial day tour for
non-riders and volunteers for non-riders and
volunteers has increased by $5.00 per day to
$55.00 initially, and will increase by $5.00
every two months beginning Feb. 1st until Apr.
1st. Click
Here for more information about
our pricing schedule.
- We will have an optional dinner at The
Braywood Resort in Eagle River Saturday
evening. Click
Here for more information.
- In order to assist capacity planning, we
now charge a $30.00 late fee for both the transportation
service from Prairie du Chien to Eagle River
before the start of
the tour and also the Land
O' Lakes century option transportation service
all transportation services since we may need
to
charter
an additional bus after the
regular
registration
deadline.
- The price of the Land O' Lakes Century
Option Transportation Service has
increased by $5.00 from $25.00 to $30.00.
- The price of the full tour has increased
by $40.00 to $539.00 initially and will increase
by $30.00 each month until Apr. 1st. The price
of each riding day of a partial day tour has
increased by $10.00 per day. Click
Here for more information about
our pricing schedule.
- Beginning with the 2024 season, we will be
gradually raising the prices of the full
tour registration for GRABAAWR over the next
several
years to eventually be about 17% (1/6) more
than our other week long tours in Wisconsin.
This is because GRABAAWR is a seven day tour
while
our other
week long tours are only six days and we
incur about 17% (1/6) more expenses running
GRABAAWR
accordingly.
- We now directly accept credit card payments
but will charge a 3.6% surcharge to cover
credit card processing fees. If you do not
want to
pay this surcharge you may submit your payment
to us through Zelle or
check or money order instead.
- The base price of the transportation service from Prairie du Chien
to Eagle River before the start of the tour has increased by $10.00 from
$169.00 to $179.00.
- The price of the Mechanical Support Plan has increased by $5.00 per day
if you register during regular and late registration, $8.00 per day if
you register less than one week before the start of the tour, and $10.00
per day if you register the day of the tour.
- We are extremely excited to annouce that we will be returning to Northland
Pines High School as our main lodging site in Eagle River. Click
Here for more information.
- Free breakfast is not included with your reservation at our supported
hotel in Wisconsin Rapids or Muscoda. If you would like free breakfast
you will need to bike back to the main lodging site during our breakfast
serving hours of 6:00 - 7:00 am.
- Web site updated with 2024 dates and stopping towns!
- GRABAAWR will occur on June 8th - 15th, 2024.
Major Previous GRABAAWR Specific Updates
- New Bike Wisconsin jerseys are now available!
- Click
Here for more information about our new Bike
Wisconsin jerseys!
- Click
Here to order a jersey to be delivered during
the tour.
- If you register using a paper registration form:
- You can now submit your payment through Zelle.
- We no longer have incoming fax service so you can't send us
a copy of your completed form this way any more.
- We will now hove both the indoor and outdoor camping available
directly the Moravian church in Wisconsin Rapids and only showers
will be available at the YMCA. Click
Here for more information.
- There will now be two separate route options if you want to ride an optional
century (100 miles) on Sunday. Click
Here for more information about the Eagle River to Tomahawk
century options.
- One option will start from Land O' Lakes, WI. If you want to ride
this option you will need to pre-register and pay for our Land O' Lakes
Century Option Transportation Service.
- The other option will be to ride from Eagle River up to our rest
stop in Phelps, turn around, and then ride the same route back to the
Eagle River main lodging site.
- We will no longer be able to support anyone who also wants to ride
a double metric century between Eagle River, Phelps, and Land O' Lakes
due to manpower, vehicle, and route timing constraints.
- Due to skyrocketing prices for fuel, food, coach busses, and many other
tour services the regular registration price of the full tour has increased
by $50.00, each riding day of a partial day tour has increased by $10.00
per day for all participant types (rider, non-rider, and volunteer), and
the price of the transportation service from Prairie du Chien to Eagle
River before the start of the tour has increased by $30.00 from
$139.00 to $169.00. Click
Here for more information about our pricing schedule.
- The late registration fee has increased by $25.00 from $125.00 to $150.00
for full tour riders and by $5.00 from $25.00 to $30.00 per day for all
partial day tour riders. The late fees for non-riders has not changed.
- We have added "e-bike" as an additional option for the type
of bike you will be transporting and there will be an additional $30.00
fee to transport e-bikes. This is because e-bikes generally require special
handling and care since they are are typically heavier and/or take up more
room in our vehicles than standard upright bicycles and therefore cannot
be transported on any outside roof racks and must be transported inside
a support vehicle.
- You will now be required to agree to the Wisconsin Rapids Woodson YMCA
Participant Waiver as part of tour registration.
- We will not provide hotel baggage service in Prairie du Chien. Instead,
you should bring your baggage to the main lodging site yourself when you
park there long term during the tour.
- If you sign up for the Mechanical Support Plan, you will need to specifically
request the pre-ride inspection yourself as we will not be able to search
out each participant individually to provide it.
- We will have separate indoor and outdoor lodging locations in Wisconsin
Rapids that are only 0.2 miles apart. The
showers will be at the outdoor lodging location. Click
Here for more information.
- The price of the towel service also increased by $1.00 from $6.00
to $7.00 per day.
- Because our business is now based in Dane County, Wisconsin (previously
Chicago, Illinois) we must now charge every participant Wisconsin
sales tax on all Bike Wisconsin event services and merchandise.
Accordingly, we will no longer have separate registration forms or charge
separate taxes for Wisconsin and non-Wisconsin residents.
- We will no longer plan on on changing the route or stopping towns on
an regular expected basis every year. Moving forward the nightly stopping
towns will remain Eagle River,
Tomahawk,
Mosinee, Wisconsin Rapids,
Mauston, Baraboo, Muscoda, and
Prairie
du Chien and all rest stop locations will also remain the same, unless
there is a specific reason to change them. Click
Here for more information about changes to
our events.
- Registration
procedures for postponed 2020 participants posted. Unfortunately, we
can only allow postponed 2020 participants to register for an event at
the original 2020 pricing schedule one time. Click
Here for more information.
- The number of days you register for the optional Towel Service, Tent
Rental, Chair Rental, and Mechanical Support Plan must be the same as the
number of days you will attend the event. For example you cannot register
to ride for six days but only register for two days of the Mechanical Support
Plan.
- No refunds will be issued in the event we are unable to run an event
due to circumstances beyond our control. These circumstances include but
are not limited to disasters (natural and/or manmade), pandemics, war,
acts of terrorism, government regulations, strikes, civil disorder, curtailment
of transportation facilities, or acts of God. (Force Majure)
- Only online registration will be available after regular registration
closes four weeks before the start of the tour in order to assure that
we receive all of your information and payment in a timely manner due to
laspes in mail service. This deadline also corresponds to the regular registration
deadline. Click
Here for more information.
- We have changed our online registration service provider to RaceRoster.com!
- Bike Wisconsin patches added to extra merchandise items!
- The route will open and route support services will begin at 6:30 am.
- WE NO LONGER ISSUE ANY REFUNDS
AT ANY TIME FOR ANY REASON. If you do not participate
and would like a refund you MUST purchase
an individual travel insurance plan, which will reimburse
you according to the plan coverage. Click
Here for more information about our refund policy.
- You will need make sure to bring your own floor pumps with you. We will
not be providing floor pumps for general participant use in the morning. Click
Here for more information about our floor pump policy.
- We will provide hotel
baggage delivery service for free if you stay at one of our supported
hotels in each stopping town! Click
Here for more information.
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