Originally Posted by
Iride01
For certain the OP doesn't like my injection of jocularity into his thread. Or maybe I'm the one misunderstanding.
I've often used ride maps to help me pick a route. I don't pick based on the number of people that ride that route. I pick it because it matches the type of ride I want to with the elevation gain/loss and yes, how secure I might feel riding that route.
I guess the post should have stated that no one is to respond unless they have been to Rome and know of a route.
Or maybe the OP should lighten up unless he expects someone to show up at his door and take him for a really nice ride. In the dark days before ride sites existed my guide was a simple paper map. It still is a lot of the time. A good friend of mine says that GPS makes you stupid. Blindly following a GPS can lead you into difficult situations with no idea how to get around them. I ran into that last year with my friend. We followed the GPS map route and came upon a construction site. We had to hike through it in our road cycling shoes and had to traverse a busy off ramp off a freeway to get back to our route. Our cycling club was going to do this ride the next day. we were able to advise our touring director how to detour around this obstruction. The lesson here is that you have to know where you are and how to get to where you want to go. I have done numerous rides where we have had to detour around road construction. Studying maps is the key to being able to go for a ride. No ride will ever be perfect, if you start one expecting that there will be no problems you will always be disappointed.