Not sure if question is referring to current or July conditions.
Current ones were good as of last week, might have freshened up a bit with yesterday's weather, but a dry line is appearing in most places. Still can be stuck in a bog if not sure where to go.
Black Forest, North Vosges, Luxemburg and Ardennes are nice, as hilly as you want to make them and quite varied. Even a bit of offroad gravel path here and there might be nice.
I love these, had a pair of blue ones that wore till they died. Could not find the orange ones in my size, so had to settle for black. Clean up very well.
Shame they don't do an equivalent with Boas, Sectors are good, but not the same as these
Axle is fine as said already, but from the second picture it looks like it's the cable outer that rubbed rather than the ziptie. Maybe it needs to be more slack/have something inserted from inside the BB shell into the chainstay to keep it low?
Good to see we did similar workouts!