The Militis stands as Raleigh’s flagship performance range, designed with input from UCI Continental outfit, Team Raleigh.

Riders including Evan Oliphant, Manxman Mark Christian and former British criterium champion Graham Briggs blasted to 110 podiums aboard the Militis Team in 2013, while British domestic number one is one of this year’s crop aboard the stunning machine.

A superlight carbon frame and fork are paired with the SRAM Red 22 groupset, the lightest performance groupset available, and Cole’s C40 Lite Carbon Clincher wheelset to make the Team a light, fast and durable machine, according to Raleigh.

It boasts a claimed weight of just 6.7kg, and is set up with a tapered head tube and performance race geometry and finished with Fizik’s Arione R1 saddle and carbon-braided rails and Schwalbe One tyres. It costs £5,000.

The Militis range also includes two further carbon machines, the Race, priced at £2,400 and the £2,000 Pro.

The former is dressed in SRAM’s Force 22 groupset while the latter uses SRAM Rival 22, while both boast the same 880g carbon frame as the Militis Team.

Both models also use the same wheelset, Cole’s new Rollen Lite, which are shod with Schwalbe Durano 700c x 23mm tyres.

All three models also feature internally routed cables to offer cleaner, more aerodynamic lines.

The final two models in the Militis range, the Comp and the Elite, use the same geometry as the carbon frames but are instead made using the 1.2kg Kinesium alloy frame, which is paired in both instances with the carbon Raleigh C4 fork, with carbon blades and alloy steerer.

The lightweight frame, first introduced last year, was developed after close work with Kinesis in Taiwan.

Coming in at £1,350, the Militis Comp is dressed in SRAM’s Rival 22 groupset, while the Elite uses the 20-speed SRAM Apex.