Several years ago, Rick and Ed Francois decided they were going to ride bikes from Belleville to the Francois family cabin in Hazelhurst. They both remembered going with their dad when they were six or seven years old when he traveled a two-lane highway about seven hours to the cabin to go fishing.

"We thought taking the back roads would be cool," said Ed. "But it wasn't without some pain. I really wasn't looking forward to the Warsaw area."

After careful planning and using bicycle friendly roads detailed by the Bike Federation of Wisconsin, the brothers started their adventure at 6:30 a...