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Been messing about for most of this winter on my Cotic Roadrat set up as a sort of off road fixie. It's been great fun but obviously not ideal given the geometry and clearance (only room for 1.8" rubber)

Who's got a Cotic Simple, how have you set them up and what do you think of it?

I'd probably keep it rigid so what rigid forks work well?

Ta


 
Posted : 31/03/2012 11:32 am
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Do you mean the old 26 or the new 29?


 
Posted : 31/03/2012 11:39 am
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I ride my Cotic Soul singlespeed most of the time (with a Magura Menja 130 fork) and it's excellent. Great for ups downs alongs and bends.

I don't see the problem with using a tensioner. I also have a set of gears which I can swap on in about 90 mins, and I don't even need to undo the cables due to the design of the cable guides.


 
Posted : 31/03/2012 11:48 am
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Singular Swift rigids are nice. If you fancy carbon, the Exotic ones.


 
Posted : 31/03/2012 12:27 pm
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Whatever I get it needs to have horizontal dropouts as I'll be running it fixed wheel.

Any other suggestions?


 
Posted : 31/03/2012 12:47 pm
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Mine comprises of hand-me-downs, apart from my ultra cool chain tensioner aka Surly Tuggnut. 100mm Fox forks work for me.

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Posted : 31/03/2012 12:52 pm
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Bought mine new in 2008 always run with Pace RC31 forks, the only thing that let it down was the track bolts I ended up replacing these for DMR chain tugs.

Its a 19" frame and will be for sale in the next few week, click on my profile name and that will take you to my Flickr account.


 
Posted : 31/03/2012 1:07 pm
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I've now had my Simple for just over a year and can't get enough of it. I run it with Rohloff hub. If you're looking for a Simple frame I'll be selling my other Cotic Simple 17.5 frame soon which has just been freshly powder coated in cotic orange?


 
Posted : 31/03/2012 2:13 pm
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130mm Lefty

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Posted : 31/03/2012 3:08 pm
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I have mine set up with revelations but was looking at putting some salsa maxles on it. I use some neat MKS brand chaintugs and also a hope bolt on hub to stop slipping under braking. Great bike but I would swap the dropouts for something like those on the santa cruz jackal.

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Posted : 31/03/2012 3:12 pm
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Tails get some oil on that chain 🙄


 
Posted : 31/03/2012 8:14 pm
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mleh! It's only a bike! I'll go check my box for some oil. âž¡


 
Posted : 02/04/2012 6:51 pm

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