snake pass repeat

lukasran

i usually go from the pub at glossop side to the small pond at the top, turn round, and then back down to glossop side pub. i think it is a good challenge to do this twice in under 1 hour. i did a single run in about half an hour so think i could just about manage. just want to whip up some competition as i very rarely see people. anyone tried this.

thegibdog

I haven't done Snake Pass as it's bad enough going over there in the car with the volume of traffic - I suspect that's why you don't see too many other riders. I suppose it depends what time/day you do it though. It is on my list of hills to do but I'm not in a particular rush to do it.

Have you tried the Mow Cop Challenge?

http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12756520

sheffsimon

lukasran wrote:

i usually go from the pub at glossop side to the small pond at the top, turn round, and then back down to glossop side pub. i think it is a good challenge to do this twice in under 1 hour. i did a single run in about half an hour so think i could just about manage. just want to whip up some competition as i very rarely see people. anyone tried this.

Cant imagine why you want to ride up Snake Pass ever - horrible busy road, full of fast cars.

At least you are riding the best side of it. Coming up it from Sheffield is dire on a bike.

There used to be a cyclo-cross reliability trial once a year which started in Glossop, over the Snake on the road, down towards Ladybower, but turned off up a track over the moors to Hope, up the road to the btm of Mam Nick, off road over Jacobs Ladder and down to Hayfield and then on the road back to Glossop. I used to complete that in 2 and a bit hours if memory serves, so I reckon I could have done your 1 hour challange for two times up the Snake.

Anyway, ramble over, each to their own.

I am the god of hell fire

I rode the Snake once when it was shut to cars
Its a lovely ride

But I just cant bring myself to ride it otherwise

Too narrow, with a fast speed limit (50!!!) and lots of dodderers leading to bunched traffic and frustrated overtaking

But then Im a wuss

lukasran

wow people really dont like that road. too bad. gib dog, i have never done mow cop but will check it out thanks. looks like its just me then.

lucca

I Once had an empty beer bottle thrown at me riding up there from the ladybower side. Bunch of crotch rots in their corsa thought that was a laugh! Not been up there since :shock:

overgeared

i love that climb done from the glossop side, it's a perfect steady incline for the kind of 20 or 30 minute intervals that will target threshold power so repeats sound like a great idea. just a pity it takes so much traffic and isnt very wide, the last time i rode it in the fog i did wonder about my safety but it didnt stop me.

stagger

the snake is much maligned for its busy- ness etc, but outside weekends and rush hour its actually reasonably quiet


I did the 'snake repeats ' thing doing some marmotte training- its a very constant gradient and quite long for a british hill...

nice on a nice sunny evening

chris7

I've been using the snake pass to complete some of the intervals for the time crunched cyclist program. Generally done around dinner time during the week and once through Glossop and on the snake pass very little traffic. it's a road I quite like as the gradient is pretty consistent and the road surface is pretty good from the Glossop side.