Pscyclepath

Nineteen states, mostly west of the Mississippi River, allow cyclists to ride on the shoulder of the freeways and interstates, or at least designated stretches of the interstates when there are no other roads available. Minnesota isn't one of them, so you can be ticketed for riding illegally on the freeway bridge. It's a common problem, especially with the larger rivers. Along the Mississippi River, there's no legal bike crossing between Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Greenville, Mississippi -- which is a right far piece! You can often sneak across the I-55 bridge near Memphis, but that will soon go away when they put the new bridge into service, which currently won't have bike accommodations.

unterhausen

I used to ride on the freeway almost daily. I've never had any problem with the wind from semis. A friend and I used to call a big rig a "tailwind." We started doing that after we rode on a freeway 5 miles instead of 30 miles of hilly back roads with hostile rednecks.