RedBaronX
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So... one day for fun I am going to ride my bike a substantial distance-- I've already gone back and forth to work, which is a 30 mile round trip, but I want to go city to city at some point...
Playing with routes on Google Maps, one on a MB has to stay off of freeways of course, so the logical Google Map selection would be "bike routes". But every single trip I've plotted out, choosing the "walking" route is ALWAYS shorter! Milwaukee to Janesville here in Wisconsin was 12 miles shorter on the walking route than on the bicycling route-- and since (at least in this case) the walking route is all streets (not specialized footpaths) it's totally legal for bikes
The upside to riding a motored bike out in the country here is that people are used to Slow Moving Traffic out on the county roads... remember the proper signage as well...
Playing with routes on Google Maps, one on a MB has to stay off of freeways of course, so the logical Google Map selection would be "bike routes". But every single trip I've plotted out, choosing the "walking" route is ALWAYS shorter! Milwaukee to Janesville here in Wisconsin was 12 miles shorter on the walking route than on the bicycling route-- and since (at least in this case) the walking route is all streets (not specialized footpaths) it's totally legal for bikes
The upside to riding a motored bike out in the country here is that people are used to Slow Moving Traffic out on the county roads... remember the proper signage as well...