You are right Steve, let's no kid ourselves here. When i said 'best road in jiangsu', the 'in jiangsu' was important. It's pretty dire that the best road in this province is a 7km stretch on an island, and isn't even allowed to traffic. Let's face it, this is what we're working with:



So we've established that zhejiang is the place to go. Sure Moganshan and Anji are nice, but as a result of their relative proximity to shanghai they are are becoming more and more overrun with the shanghai weekenders. Those are the worst drivers of all. They ruin all your corners by either driving at 10kph or worst yet driving on the wrong side.

South east of hangzhou looks good except we're not allowed allowed to cross that lovely bridge they built. There's another bridge that bikerdoc mentioned in this thread which might make the best compromise for us. Here's an example of what we can get to using that bridge. It's a 750km route, which is pretty hardcore in one day, maybe a weekend trip is more worthwhile. Perhaps Bikerdoc could chime in here and recommend some good in the area?