My local roads… Snake is okay early on at the weekend and quite beautiful, but scary when busy on the Ladybower side, too many blind bends and brain-dead day trippers who can't deal with oncoming traffic and a cyclist on their own side of the road simultaneously.
The Woodhead is seriously nasty, just very fast with lots of lorries. If you come off the bottom of Cut Gate and want to head over to Glossop, you're better off cutting across to the disused railway from the old road opposite the Flouch, follow that to Dunford Bridge then left, up the hill and onto the Longdendale Trail and off road until Royston Vasey.