The Sarto Seta review: a frame pretty close to perfection

Weighing just 750g, the Italian-made frame is stiff in sprints and doesn't twitch in corners - even during one of the toughest bike challenges around

The greatest compliment you can pay a suit is that you forget you're wearing it. The fit is so good, the stitching so subtle and the fabric so well cut that it exists as a background reality; seamless tailoring that never distracts by being too lose or too tight. The Sarto Seta is that in a bike, and the sartorial comparison is totally appropriate.

Sarto, an Italian frame builder, has endeavoured to bring Saville Row to the cycling industry, building bespoke made-to-measure bicycles as exclusive and as sought after as classic British tailoring. The company was founded in 1950 by the Sarto family.