As a bike rider (especially a slow rider like me), you are able to see so much more than you can from a fast-moving car. It’s all there: the emerging fields of corn and soybeans, newborn calves and goats following their mothers on green pastures and the main streets of our state’s picturesque small towns.

 In Iowa, we’re lucky to have some of America’s best bike trails to see the countryside, as well as...