Flying Rutabega Circus Review seeks able bodies, no bodies, some bodies, silly bodies, and frilly bodies to Caravan Across the Cornbelt. These bodies must be willing to upgrade their skeletonal system to a level of tip-top performance and transport mode. Here's how we'll do it.

Completing a 1000 mile journey is not easy on the body. You must give the engine a tune up. The engine in this case, is you! This engine, plus a well-tuned bicycle, plus a clown costume, means you are a cousin in the Flying Rutabegas! One month before we ride, we start a daily regiment of stretching for 20 minutes a day. We wake up a little earlier than our neighbor and roll ourselves onto the rugs and grassy knolls and bend our bones. We yoga, yoga, yoga, a roll call of every muscle. The legs and back - the trouble spots for most Rutabegas. Instead of drinking a morning coffee, we consider drinking water. Why not? Six to ten glasses a day will greatly benefit the well-being, ripeness. Raise your water bottle trophies. Our portable wellness center. Drench the internals! Pee away toxins! To prime the pistons (your legs) you'll need to take on a training routine. Bike everywhere you go. And take a distance trip with some friends. Scream RUTABEGAS! When we get together as a big family circus, we will be moving on velos (French: bikes) at least 5 hours per day. So take your trusty steed out for a spin 20-25 miles out and back again. Make sure you got your H2O bottle and all necessary tools and feuls. Do several trips like this in your month of training and you will learn more about the challenges that you and your bike will face together. Eventually you'll want to practice fitting your bike up with your panniers, and packing your necessities inside. Hauling your stuff will make you a stronger rutabega, so get out there and deliver some groceries!

Ah yes, the liberation of the bicycle. The most contented riders have developed a passion for the particular work of art that propel them. One month of training for a distance trip also includes regular visits to your favorite bicycle shop. Find one that specializes in recycling bikes, for these gems are worthy of patronizing since they promote low-cost practical use of bikes and are not purely sport shops. Often mechanics in these shops are more helpful and are willing to talk about your bike with you and will give advice more freely. Better yet, ask them if they are seeking apprentices and offer to exchange hours of work for parts and upgrades. Watch and learn! Tinker and re-tinker! Patience is important. This is not a car, thank the atmosphere. You can and will eventually discover the rewards of knowing your bike, back to front, top to bottom.

On with the packing. Lay out everything you think you'll need then cut it down to half. Hikers and bikers will tell you the importance of lightening loads. If you must carry a novel, make it a moldy paperback whose pages, once read, will start your campfires. Cut toothbrush handles in half. Many tricks can be made to make items serve multiple uses. Behold the wrench/spoon/reading glasses! Mother of necessity, grant us divine anti-internal combustion inspired inventions. Look to the garbage, what do you see? Five gallon size plastic laundry detergent containers as waterproof saddle bags to be! Thats whats called bike circus trash worship.

Now, some investments, dear Rutabagas. Consider it like paying rent on your nomadic homestead. Bike shorts with a padded bottom. Your rump will be glad. Bike gloves will save on hand wear. Happy new socks. Sneakers and a helmet. Flats will happen, so get a pump, a spare innertube, and a patch kit. Don't be burdened by so-called grooming items or anti-perspirants. Replace these with a little medical kit arnica muscle cream, sunscreen, Emergen-C, and some bandages to start. Some energy foods will come in handy, so learn to assemble your own to suit your taste. Review bike books and seek advice on clothing, since opinions vary. Maps, oh yeah, and a some bells and whistles, a kazoo, a puppetshow, and a fiddle or banjo, and why not a pair of stilts, yes, indeed, why not? A bicycle trailer is a fantastic addition to the world of the nomadic bike circus. Let a trailer take the weight and you'll provide the pull. The homemade designs are going around, if you're ready and willing with or without welding. Oh the ecstacy! Oh the agony! Sweet uphill struggle! Downhill bliss! Rain! Rain! Rain! Cross winds! Head and tail winds! The elements shall elevate the experience, and as the old bike circus addage goes: sucking is all part of the fun.

Presentations, performances and outreach
The purpose of the ride is to raise public awareness of the injustices preventing a safe and healthy food supply. There will be many different types of public outreach along the ride, including performances and educational events in cities and towns all along the way. These performances will seek to convey the latest information on genetic engineering combined with puppetry, clowning and creativity. Cyclists will be volunteering in the communities and on local farms, and seeking trusting and cooperative links with the wide diversity of people we will encounter.