If you’d like to see, touch, sniff (if you must) and, yes, ride the 2003 Marin and Whyte range, get yourself along to Bike Bristol, in, er, Bristol this weekend where the whole lot will be available for your perusal and testing. New Quad XC bikes (including the top of the range Mount Vision Pro), the adjustable travel TARA bikes and those hardtails that you’d probably forgotten that Marin made.

Also in attendance will be designer Jon Whyte and twice National Champion Paul Lazenby. So get yourself along to Bike Bristol, Embassy House, Queens Avenue, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1SB between 9 and 6 on 30 November and 9 and 4 on 1 December. You can call them for more information on 0117 929 3500.