Originally Posted by spinnaker
I have the Lonely Planet Bicycling Italy guide and I am not very happy with it. It is set up in the form of loops and 1 to 2 day rides. It does not cover all of the towns. The guide would be much more useful if it included a snapshot of each town.
I assume you are talking about the regular Lonely Planet Guid?
You assume correctly. I wouldn't want to limit myself to routes chosen by the bicycle guide's authors and would be inclined to veer from them for a variety of reasons. The regular guidebook covers a lot of information for virtually every town and region, not just the ones on preselected bike routes.