Results

We asked which bike from the peloton you'd like to own if money were no object, and the answers made this one of the most popular categories in the whole poll. In fact we had such a diverse range of responses that we've had to engage in a little 'creative accounting' to make sense of them. The bikes have therefore been counted by manufacturer, and we've included a couple of the most popular models from each builder that were mentioned in the votes.

The envelope, please... In third place, Pinarello's popular Prince and Opera models are objects of techno-lust for many of you, but a couple of dozen more want to be like Lance and ride one of Trek's team issue bikes, putting the Wisconsin company into second place.

But the winner by a substantial margin is Maestro Ernesto, with the Colnago C-40 and CT-1 widely cited as objects of desire.

Eddy Merckx' Domo team bikes and Litespeed's titanium featherweights took fourth and fifth spots, and there were too many others with less than one percent of the vote to list.

Full results

1 Colnago C-40 (Mapei team colours)/CT-1                 289   24.0
2 Trek USPS 5900/Lance's TT or Mountain model            238   19.8
3 Pinarello Prince (Telekom colours)/Opera               202   16.8
4 Eddy Merckx Domo team issue/Johan Museeuw's Merckx     119    9.9
5 Litespeed Ghisallo/Vortex                               49    4.1
6 DeRosa Merak/King                                       39    3.2
7 Look KG 281/Credit TT model                             36    3.0
8 Cannondale CAAD 6 (Saeco colours)/Black Lightning       33    2.7
9 Giant TCR/Once team issue                               32    2.7
10 Specialized S-Works/Festina team issue                 27    2.2
11 Bianchi EV4/Meratone Uno's Bianchi                     18    1.5
Other                                                    122   10.1
TOTAL                                                   1204