Ride routes:
I gotta say, I'm not enamoured of them. I looked at the one which included Spain and in particular the ones around the Picos. We even tried a much hyped loop around Chaves (Bragança) one year and found it, at best, underwhelming. Had it not been for the excellent Forte De Sao Francisco hotel and the roads down to Chaves: Navia - Fonsagrada - Ourense - Chaves, I'd have been pretty pissed off to go all the way down there for that loop ride.
In Sept we crossed paths with several other groups including one led by a friend of one of our group. They'd mostly taken their lead from Ride. Now, I realise that I'm amking assumptions here, but judging by the type of bikes, their tyres and them, I'd say that they wasted a fair bit of their ride and missed quite a few good roads.
Everyone is different and every tour is different. Ride routes are widely generic in their nature. The journalists that ride thm are on the clock mostly and I think research is probably minimal. It's not possible to cater for everyone's tastes so when people come on here asking for good routes and places, it's disheartening to be told to get a map, look at Ride and stop bothering people on here. It isn't particularly helpful, either.
Having "tried" and failed miserably to come up with a system or a PDF/WORD document to extend to others my miniscule area of expertise, other than the technical difficulties of using URL links (which don't seem to work the same twice), I am painfully aware that everyone wants different things from their tours.
In my humble opinion if you like planning and researching your tour (not necessarily to the "nth" degree) then you need as much different information as possible. Sometimes that information might come about by a chance message, direct contact, a helpful person who knows the area or just something you hadn't thought of and, of course, ride reports as well. Then, and only then, can you sort the wheat from the chaff and come up with something tailored to your tour. Adaptability is key at times. There is no substitute for the groundwork, including using Google street-view to check out road surfaces and environs.
Always open, by the way, to people messaging me if they have a question or want recommendations. Wapping will say: "Publish it all here, then we can all read it". Doesn't always work that way; I repeat, everyone wants different stuff and has longer/shorter tours, more/less riders all too impractical to put on one document.