Gallery: The best of Like Bike 2015

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Three spare spokes are mounted to the René's chainstay. They're all rears, but Victoire had a clever solution for that(Image credit: Jamie Wilkins/Immediate Media)

Festka is from the Czech Republic and one of the most interesting and engineering-driven young brands we've met in some time. This is the Festka One LT, the superlight range-topping race bike alongside the One RS which prioritises stiffness. This LT weighs a claimed 5.4kg and would cost £10,000 if you ordered one in the same spec. The frame is 700g in size M and the fork is under 300g, giving a sub-kilo frameset. It's available in 24 stock sizes or full custom. This is the personal bike of the company founder, former pro Michael Mourecek. After he retired he didn't ride for four years, then his family got together and said they wanted to buy him a bike to get him riding again and he realised that, aged 30, he'd never chosen his own bike. He looked at loads but couldn't find anything he really wanted so he set up Festka. Five years later he has finally made himself a bike(Image credit: Jamie Wilkins/Immediate Media)

The only giveaway is the wires going from the bottle-mounted battery into the frame. The range is between 45mins and 4hrs depending on the mode and terrain. Retro-fitting is done by Italia carbon specialists Sarto. The cut open the frame, install the motor, then repair the frame to be as good as new. It costs €3,000 all in, so at least that's one thing stopping them from ruining every sportive and Strava segment in the country before the end of summer(Image credit: Jamie Wilkins/Immediate Media)

LimeMotion is a French brand making aftermarket electric motors for road bikes. This carbon Carrera has a 35mm diameter motor built into the seat-tube and drives the bottom bracket axle with up to 250W. Remember the stupid (made up) fuss about road pro Fabian Cancellara in 2010 supposedly having a motor in his bike when he won Paris-Roubaix? This makes it look possible. Check out the cranks and rear wheel flying around(Image credit: Jamie Wilkins/Immediate Media)

Some of the raw material that goes into a frame. Festka sources its raw carbon in this form from a huge supplier called Compotech. Festka then makes its own tubes and frames. This process allows Festka to use a much higher proportion of ultra high modulus carbon fibre, which is brittle in the wrong direction and unable to be bent around tight corners. Manufacturing its own tubes allows Festka to get around that. The black and white Festka One LT features over 700 metres of continuous carbon fibre(Image credit: Jamie Wilkins/Immediate Media)

This is 'grown carbon'. It isn't made by Dassi but for now the brand has exclusive access to the technology from its UK inventor for bike parts. It's made in a process that's a little like 3D printing. It begins with a pile of carbon particle dust and ends up with any shape of object you like. Dassi showed us a grown carbon bottle cage, a seat clamp and, most astonishinly because of the loads going through them, these TT risers and extension mounts. This tech makes it possible to completely personalise the object, so you could have one-piece risers at your perfect height and angle. If production can be scaled up it could be a real game changer.(Image credit: Jamie Wilkins/Immediate Media)

Nevi is an Italian titanium specialist that first became available in the UK at the start of this year. Half the brand's business is industry (such as lightweight roll cages for high-level motorsport) and half is bikes. This is the Spinas crit racer, with an unusual folded and welded aero downtube. Nevi do all of their ti welding in vacuum chambers instead of drenching the welding site in nitrogen because, they say, it gives a stronger and more precise weld(Image credit: Jamie Wilkins/Immediate Media)