I had lived in Minneapolis the past four years and did a fair amount of commuting there (Uptown to UMN, Uptown to Mendota Heights), but I will say this, some of the burbs are really laid out terrible for biking. St.Louis Park comes to mind where the streets are laid out like the branches on a tree trunk. The secondary streets branch off and eventually dead end and there is one main artery, which is way to busy and fast for a bike. In these cases you are forced to take the high traffic route and I rode on the side-walk because I thought it was absolutely insane to ride in that traffic. But I had to slow it way done when I did that.