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Just adding to that, it's absolutely fine to discuss your route, or specific aspects of it, with other people as part of your research, in the same way that it is fine to go out and reccy bits of the route, if you live near enough, have time, etc. For example, I have a cycling friend who lives in Germany and I asked him about my route there. In the past, I've seen bits of my route come up as strava segments and seen people I know have ridden them, so asked them about them. And I remember the first time I heard of Kristof was when he posted on YACF asking UK riders for info on whether it was OK to ride on the A2 to Dover in the first TCR.
The restrictions there are relate to asking for help from other people who are also racing. Essentially if you just copy your route from another rider, you've saved a load of work which isn't really fair, or if you plan with a mate and do half each, then you've halved the work, etc. I can't see a problem with asking a specific question like 'is the xxx road ok to ride'.