Us mere mortals don’t have this choice, so we have to make an informed decision on which type of bike to ride based on the information we have and the riding we do. This has recently been made harder with the reintroduction of softtail designs by BMC and Trek. Whilst it’s not new technology, they could offer somewhere close to ‘the best of both worlds’ and although you might have heard that somewhere before, I will be looking forward to seeing how the BMC and Trek team riders fare in 2015.