Bike Stuff

So, I was going to visit Wisconsin in the Summer. It's supposed to be a great place to ride (and previous experience says it's true). So what kind of adventure could I have. How about riding across the entire state?  Well, when I started searching, Google led me straight to an event "Ride Across Wisconsin". Yeah, clear name. Unfortunately, this year's event was a couple of weeks too early. But it did give me an idea of a good route.  So let's look at a ride from the Mississippi River on the west side of Wisconsin all the way to Milwaukee on Lake Michigan, totalling 263 miles and 6900 ft of climbing. It roughly follows the off-road route version of "Ride Across Wisconsin". But where they do it in one or two days (yikes) as a supported ride, I took 5 for a self-supported ride.  I used the RAW course as a baseline and modified it for my purposes to find appropriate day route lengths and places to stay. Two long 'metric century' days followed by ...