It's quite apparent from Wheel Fever, State Historical
Society materials and LAB archives that bicyclists paved the roads
(paving was done first with wood, i.e., Watertown Plank Road leading
west out of Milwaukee. With the rise of the Wisconsin dairy industry
and the need to get perishable milk reliably to cheese factories and
consumer markets, the farmers came to appreciate the gift of paving,
and we now have all those wonderful paved town and county roads that
Robbie refers to. Even Iowa, which touts its RAGBRAI tradition, is
still stuck in the mud with lots of gravel. (Although there recently
has fairly recently emerged a "bike gravel" movement, sort of a
reminiscence, I guess, with their own events. And my Pugsley is
seriously thinking about that.)
At 03:52 PM 3/26/2014, Michael Lemberger wrote:
On Mar 26, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Robbie wrote:
> Even the little farm roads with almost no traffic are paved.
That's what makes road biking so amazing here.
It's arguably the lack of traffic, more than it is the pavement.
Gravel can be most excellent, and is exactly what we'd be doing in
the absence of our pavement.
<http://gravelgrindernews.com/?post_type=tribe_events>
Michael Lemberger
Madison
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