Can you keep a secret?

There’s a climb that rises 1,450m from a river bank to a rocky promontory in just 23km. Along the way, it leaves you dizzy with its beauty – soaring spires of rock, swirling filigrees of hairpins – and its toughness, the gradient sticking relentlessly at around 10% for the last 13 of those kilometres.

But I don’t want to tell you where it is.

In the opposite direction, a succession of quiet bike paths and roads takes you