It’s already been a few days since the Roc d’Azur 2024 started, and we have already been able to present a number of new features to you. This time, it’s on a small stand a little away from the big brands that we discover a magnificent gravel in exposed carbon, with an Italian-sounding name: presentation of the Santiago from Officine Mattio.
In 2013, Giovanni Monge Roffarello embarked on a simple but ambitious project: creating unique bicycles for enthusiasts, entirely made in Italy.
If the brand was born on the road with carbon models intended for couriers, like the Lemma (name inherited from the climb on which Giovanni tested the first prototypes), Officine Mattio today offers four gravel models, manufactured in four different materials: carbon, aluminum, steel and stainless steel.
Here, before our eyes, the Santiago C (for carbon) RT, and its fibers speak for themselves! The work on the carbon tubes, coupled with the fittings also in carbon, offers a superb finish.
The Italian brand offers a configurator on its site allowing you to fully personalize your bike. Paint, group, peripherals, wheels, everything is customizable.
Available in five sizes (from XS to XL), the brand also told us that it was possible to make completely custom bikes. Of course, this has a price (count, for example, more than €9,000 for this version equipped with the Campagnolo Ekar group and in-house carbon wheels), but that is the advantage of small productions!
In any case, such beautiful bikes make you want to ride them, and we hope in the editorial office that we will have the opportunity to do so one day!
For more information, go to the Officine Mattio website.
