Officine Mattio Lemma 2.0 £10,200 | 7.3kg

Being CW’s fitness editor, rather than a tech writer, I don’t often get the chance to pick and choose among the crème de la crème of bicycles. The parcels that arrive for me tend to contain nutritional powders or massage balls rather than high-modulus carbon. This has rarely reduced me to tears, but it leaves me curious: what would it be like to ride one of those astonishingly (to me) unaffordable bikes targeted at those lucky tech journalists and even luckier few who have five-figure bike budgets?

So when an email arrived from Officine Mattio (OM) detailing the brand’s latest top-of-the-range models, I sensed my chance had come. Possibly as a remnant from my motorcycling days, I have a thing for boutique Italian brands – those offering not just something