Having spent 17 years or more doing bike launches, I was lucky enough to ride in southern Spain quite a lot. After everyone had done "The Ronda Road" too many times, one location that became popular was Mójacar on the south east corner of the country.

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There are some great roads here – and you'll have seen pics of many models on two of them. But there's much more to be discovered when you get away from the PR pack. Coming back to explore on my own uncovered some absolutely stunning stretches of tarmac.

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This route gets finished with the bike-launch staples by the coffee stop and then the madness really begins, with roads so twisty you'll wonder which way is up. "It looks like a drunk kid with a crayon has been drawing on my sat nav," my friend Pip said… which is the perfect way to describe these roads.