But the bike I’m selling is a one-off. It’s the same one that supported my unathletic backside up Mont Ventoux on Bastille Day in 2013. It transported me along the entire, barriered-off course of the 2012 Tour de France Prologue and up and over the Col D’Aspin in the Pyrenees on a blazing hot morning later that month. It’s the bike I used to film the “funny / informative” inserts with Chris Boardman that are a feature of ITV’s Tour de France coverage. So when this bike leaves my house – and it’s all for a great cause – so too will the last tangible connection to those events; some of my most vivid experiences, the greatest fun I have had on a bicycle.