Overpass query: how to select certain ways that are in relations

I suggest http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/9Zf instead.

Let's also do a walk-through of the above query:

The parentheses opening in line 2 and closing in line 6 mean that the input of line 8

>;

are the union of the results in lines 3, 4, and 5. In particular, in line 3 we collect all the relations with "route"="bicycle". Thus, the recurse-down collects all the ways that are members of these relations. In line 9, these resulting ways, along also found nodes from these ways, are printed.

To avoid this, you need to remove the parentheses in line 2 and 6. Fruthermore, the parentheses in lines 3, 4, and 5 also have no effect, because there is in each case only a single query inside.

The remaining differences are that I have simplified the different set names to always the default set name. Because some relations may have an enormous extent, I have also added a "({{bbox}})" condition to the "way" query to restrict the results to the given bbox. It would work without, but admittedly slower. To speed up without bounding box, you can use

[out:json][timeout:90];
rel["route"="bicycle"]({{bbox}});
way(r);
way._["surface"="paved"];
out geom;

This splits the way query into two steps to enforce that the filtering for relation members is applied first.

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