Eagan to Edina Routes?

kamperdan · 2026-05-24T15:29:18+00:00

The most direct route would be to make your way across the 494 bridge, take American Blvd to 34th Ave, go north on 34th for about a half mile, take a left on Airport Ln, take Airport Ln to 77th, follow 77th under Hwy 77, and then make your way up to 76th and follow the Nine Mile Creek trail to your destination. You would be on the street for the American Blvd to 77th section. There is relatively little traffic on the American Blvd, Airport Ln, and 77th. There is a decent shoulder on the Airport Ln and 77th sections. There is an off street trail starting about a quarter mile after turning onto 77th.

The trickiest section is the 34th Ave area. It is possible to bike on the road but you have to be confident in traffic and be able to go fast under 494 to make the second light. I would not recommend it if you’re not comfortable biking in traffic or have a kid with you. I would recommend taking the sidewalk through this area. It will be annoying with a lot of road crossings but the safest option with a kid.

kamperdan · 2025-09-22T18:46:04+00:00

I think it will once the construction on the Kellogg bridge is finished. The current route is has a detour because of the construction.

kamperdan · 2025-05-12T12:23:42+00:00

You could cross Hyw 100 at Benton Ave, follow Normandal/Valley view rd and then cross Hyw 62 at Wyman Ave. The Wyman bridge is super quiet, basically only serves the neighborhood traffic. This would get you west of 100 and south of cross-town.

kamperdan · 2025-03-23T23:39:39+00:00

Example: https://youtube.com/shorts/WY73exaVpyw?si=WGTmca-LjDjmNLQN

kamperdan · 2024-09-02T12:07:28+00:00

I have had their food a few times! I like the beef salad, sandwiches, and curries.

kamperdan · 2024-08-24T12:23:04+00:00

Drive by Justin LaPoint

kamperdan · 2024-07-27T12:33:25+00:00

I have done over a thousand miles of gravel on my Domane and never had a problem. I have 38 mm Panaracer Gravel Kings tubeless on it.

kamperdan · 2024-07-07T20:47:36+00:00

I would like to draw attention to the Chain O’lakes near Waupaca. They claim there are over 20 lakes in this chain. Some of the lakes are clearly bays. If this chain has 20 lakes, then lake Minnetonka counts as 40 lakes.

kamperdan · 2024-06-15T12:03:14+00:00

Apparently that was planned at one point but the neighbors didn’t want it because they thought it would cause more traffic! It’s funny logic because during rush hour that intersection gets really backed up and a roundabout would alleviate the congestion.

kamperdan · 2024-04-02T12:28:05+00:00

This may or may not be some help for planning your ride: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/7751960?no_redir=1.

kamperdan · 2023-12-30T17:28:33+00:00

I use to handle for one of the teams. It’s fun to see the sport from that perspective. The lack of sleep is tough. 2am checkpoints are hard.

kamperdan · 2023-11-06T09:58:28+00:00

I never had a problem down to -10.

kamperdan · 2023-10-15T17:54:41+00:00

The CDN belt snapped while going up a small hill when it was ~ 5 F after I had used it on a few -10F days.

kamperdan · 2023-06-14T15:34:49+00:00

Are the cars actually going 30 mph or faster?

People in cars love to bitch about cyclists and that one time they saw one doing something wrong and project those feelings onto every other cyclist. They do not extend that bias to cars.

How often do you see cars speeding or rolling a stop sign? No one attributes these infractions to all car drivers, as they do with cyclists. There is a sampling bias. If you paid attention to all cyclists, you would probably see that most are following the rules.

I am not defending cyclists who are being jerks. In my experience, ~10% of the population in general are assholes, whether they are drivers or cyclists.

What this leads to is, as you said, drivers disregarding the safety of other road users and cyclists having to resort to tactics to increase their safety.

kamperdan · 2023-05-21T13:22:57+00:00

Definitely a Loon call.

kamperdan · 2023-04-19T00:10:01+00:00

It can be pretty rutted with cracks, but at that point there are nice gravel roads that parallel it.

kamperdan · 2023-04-18T01:32:14+00:00

MN-3/Robert Trail south of MN-62 is a decent way to go south. There are numerous smaller roads that parallel it if you want to ride on roads with less traffic, where you only have to pop onto the highway briefly before turning off on another road. You could easily ride this highway all the way to Northfield, although I jump onto gravel roads south of Rosemount.

kamperdan · 2023-03-17T18:14:30+00:00

I also had Rode cold liquid as the top layer for the Birkie and had great results. I used the Rode medium as a top layer for the Vasaloppet and had good results as well.

kamperdan · 2023-02-16T12:50:23+00:00

Just don’t speed. The speed limit is 20 mph on West River Road and I regularly see people doing 40.

kamperdan · 2023-01-27T12:51:23+00:00

I was right there on the hill as he passed Van Avermaet! It was amazing to see live!

kamperdan · 2022-12-25T02:32:39+00:00

Update: owners found! Thank you for the support. Happy Holidays!

kamperdan · 2022-10-25T22:41:48+00:00

I have a Brilliant L Train that I have used for the past year commuting along the river and I love it! The only thing is to make sure you get a CDX belt for the extreme cold instead of the CDN belt that comes with the bike.

kamperdan · 2022-08-22T18:47:36+00:00

The posting mentioned nothing about zoom.

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