rebaltaz83, I agree the Finger Lakes are a wonderful place to spend time on a bike. I grew up north of there, by Lake Ontario. In the winter, when all the trees were bare, from the hill we lived on, you could see all the way to Lake Ontario, and the ice formed on it. The vantage point was so-good, that during WW II there was an aerial observation tower a few house lots from us. Neighbors would take turns staffing it. There was a phone line that had a direct link to a Niagara Falls USAAF airfield to report sightings. Our town had a munitions plant in it, a prime target for Tojo's or Goering's flyboys. There was a chart inside of the Axis planes' silhouettes, for ID, and one of the Allies' aviation stock, for reference. The tower's long-gone, of course, replaced by a home that has probably seen four generations of schoolchildren walking across the street to the local secondary school complex, which incidentally, was often covered in knee-deep snow, several months of the year, and was uphill, both coming, and going.
As an adolescent, my father took me to Watkins Glen for the Formula 1 Grand Prix, where I saw the likes of Jim Clark and Graham Hill win. I also saw John Surtees, the only person ever to win both the world championship roadracing on motorcycles, and the Formula 1 world championship for drivers. Bruce Mclaren was also racing F1 at the time. Honda was campaigning a V-12, and BRM had two flat-8 cylinder engines, one on-top of the other, forming an H-16. Those engines made unique sounds unlike anything else. Another popular engine of the time was a DOHC 4 cylinder Coventry-Climax, which was developed from a London Fire Brigade stationary powerplant used in firefighting.
Yes, lots of great roads to ride on the Southern Tier of western NY. People unfamiliar with the terrain of NY think that it's all like Manhattan. They need to take a ride through the rural parts, like the Catskills, the Adirondacks, and of course, the Southern Tier.