If you want to know how increasing bike prices have affected cyclists, consider this. It is not so long ago that a group of cyclists with nothing better to do would discuss their ‘dream garage’ – the bikes they’d like to own. This was usually several bikes. A university friend wanted 14, to include two identical time trial bikes which he planned to use alternately so that they’d wear out more slowly. He was going to have them in different colours so he could tell the difference, and when we suggested he get one and paint it a different colour on each side, he got very cross and stormed out of the pub.

Michael Hutchinson

Multiple national champion on the bike and award-winning author Michael Hutchinson writes for CW every week

I think it needs to be more than ‘just’ expensive and modern. It’s a bike you need to want at an emotional level, and that probably means there’s something personal about it. There’s a good chance your dream bike is whatever was being ridden by your hero when you were 14. Or, if you weren’t a cyclist when you were 14, your hero three years after you took up cycling. It’s probably the first bike you wanted and just couldn’t imagine how you’d ever get.

I have several dream bikes, one of which is a Bike Technologies Stealth track bike from the mid 2000s, ideally in yellow. You don’t know what that is? Well, exactly. You don’t know what it is, and I don’t know where to get one. Now that’s a dream bike. (It was the bike that the Australian track team used to hose all of us out of the velodrome at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002. Find one on the internet – they’re beautiful.)

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