Acknowledging you have a problem is often the first step:

This sign and several similar ones (the first one says “Next 38 miles”) are not on a little-used byway but rather on Interstate 94 in Wisconsin. It is indeed a little rough — Roadguy watched some motorcyclists bounce as they cruised over the bigger bumps — but frankly, it’s pretty smooth compared with I-94 between Minneapolis and St. Paul.

And that bit of highway, in turn, is pretty smooth when compared with a stretch of local roadway that alert reader Craig dubbed “insanely bad”: W. 29th Street between Lyndale and Dupont in south Minneapolis. On Friday, I rode through there on my bike, FlipCam in hand, and recorded 30 seconds’ worth of video. Those prone to motion sickness might want to avert their eyes, but I invite others to try to spot anything that isn’t a pothole or a patch:

Next time I’ll probably walk instead of bike — FlipCam video gets a bit pixelated even at low speeds. But you get the idea that it’s one rough road.

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