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Hmm... I know we are not posting routes but this isn't for a ride anyway so what the hell...
The bicycle race I did yesterday was on some amazingly nice roads... most of it was not on numbered routes and this area would tend to get ignored I think.
Basically you ride out Rt. 2... right after you pop up to the top of the Mohawk trail in Florida, there is a road on the right hand side called Monroe St. I think. Go down that and then take a quick right onto Whitcomb hill Rd. The race started at the bottom of that hill. (2 miles down, 9.5% grade, twisty) I had motorcycled out there many times and always ignored that road cause I wanted to go see the overlook that looks down at North Adams.
Topo map of the area:
http://cycling.williams.edu/whitcomb...20sponsors.pdf
Directions to the start of the race:
http://cycling.williams.edu/whitcomb...ons%20Page.pdf
You won't be able to figure out the route of the race very easily from those maps, but I drove around a bunch in the car saturday, there are awesome roads all over the place there, and we hooked back onto Rt. 100 after driving around in there. It would be a better way to connect from Rt. 2 to Rt. 100 than to go all the way into North Adams and then take 8 to 100. As it is very sparesly populated and I didn't see any lights.
There was more high speed cornering, etc.. in this race than any other one I've done.. it was a ton of fun although climbing the hills was brutal.
Ben