It’s also common for riders to experience neck and shoulder pain so it’s an important area to consider when setting yourself up on a bike.

If you are making adjustments to you own fit then the key, Burt says, is what you do when your are actually tweaking your position.

“With neck and shoulders, most people will set themselves up on a bike while looking at the floor and then when they go out and ride, obviously they’re looking at the road ahead,” he says.

“It’s a nice little tip to remember, to remember where you’ve got to look. People will get a crick neck generally and that’s worse on long rides.”

To alleviate pain in the neck or shoulders – and the latter can be identified not only by shoulder pain but by numbness in the hands and locked out elbows – it is important to set the front end of the bike higher.

As with the back, it’s also important to increase training load gradually to avoid putting sudden strain on the neck muscles.