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Sarto Raso TC

Sarto has been making bikes since 1959 as both a supplier for other brands and its own label, and its first carbon designs were fabricated almost two decades ago. Enrico Sarto says the brand was finally strong enough to go it alone in 2019, and now Sarto exclusively makes custom bikes in its own factory in Italy.

In 2022, the Veneto-based company invested in the few remaining machines it required to become fully independent from suppliers, meaning it could move quickly from design to prototype through to build. The Raso TC is the first model to benefit from this new structure.

‘The Raso TC was born for two main reasons,’ says Enrico

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