It is said there are many ways to skin a cat and while we can not vouch for the accuracy of such a statement, we can tell you there are certainly many ways to design a bicycle.

Carbon, titanium, aluminium or steel for the frames? And what of the wheels – a seemingly endless list of variables are open to the designers.

And that is all without mentioning tyres, groupsets, pedals – the list goes on.

So our man Peter Lovell has taken a look at the methods behind the machines – check out his latest blog here.