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Custom Sarto Raso Gravel
The evolution of all-terrain
Can’t come to California?We can bring the build to you. Wherever you ride, we’ll work with you to create and finally crate up your new dream bike and deliver it to your door.
Sarto's Raso Gravel is new to the market but not to Above Category. Several months ago, Sarto was good enough to send us an early prototype so we could ride it and give our feedback, which went on to inform the design of the frameset now launched to the wider world. We might say wider woods, as the Raso Gravel is a trail specialist - you may have got that from the name. What it's not is a bikepacking rig. Raso Gravel is all about pace - pure road speed and performance transposed to the world's fastest gravel races and routes.
The specs support this. Raso Gravel comes in two versions: 1x and 2x compatible, with clearance for up to 48mm tyres. And a second version, visually unchanged apart from some adaptions around the rear triangle to allow for up to 55mm (2.1") tires and a 1x 52T chaninring. The larger version is 1x only.
Raso Gravel inherits a lot of the aerodynamic development thinking that informed the design of the all-road Raso. Expect a streamlined shape, with optimized tubes and lines designed to slip through the air. It also brings the stares. Raso Gravel looks awesome. It inspires you to ride simply because it looks right and fast. And that, as AC's Chad has always said, is the best sort of beginning.
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The AC Journal
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The Sarto Raso Gravel and the Evolution of Drop-Bar Off-Road Bikes
When "Gravel" bikes became an official thing eight or nine years ago, I had a bit of a chuckle. Who would want to ride that? Anything one of these new balloon tire road bikes could do, a hardtail mountain bike could do better.Despite my misgivings, we were still among the first to have these new bikes on hand as we worked with OPEN Cycles, one of the firs...
September 2024
Sarto Unveils 'Black Marble' as a Finish Option for the Raso
Never let it be said that the good people at Sarto Bikes rest on their laurels. If you came to the AC Invitational at the studio in August, you might have seen a new paint scheme from the Venetian custom carbon fiber specialists, a swirling, misty mountain, marble-like effect in gloss blue and a matt green. Except, you didn’t see a new paint finish. What ...
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BOTW: A Chic Sarto Raso
Bryan has been a customer of the shop for quite a while and was looking to update/upgrade the Parlee Z5 he had been riding since 2013. He liked carbon fibre and was keen to benefit from the latest and greatest innovations in the world of composites. As it turned out, his timing could not have been better, as the Sarto Raso dropped earlier this year, an ex...
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