I live at the bottom of Heaton (near the Bfd grammer School) > Town > Wakefield Road > Tong > Drighlington > Gildersome > New Farnley > along ring road to White Rose Centre.
Section between Tong & New Farnley is nice - quiet & semi-rural, nice smooth roads.
Occasionally I go up Queen's Road > Thornbury > Pudsey > Stanningley bypass and Ring Road - shorter but far more traffic.
I occasionally do Paul_L's route on the way home if weather is nice and I feel good - wouldn't do it as my normal commute though as adds about 7 miles to it.
Paul you could do the first route by going through Wortley - Here's a link to Bikely:
http://www.bikely.co...ike-path/384146