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Readers’ Rides: Steel Special
For this edition of Readers’ Rides, Neal and Sam both share their steel full suspension mountain bikes.
Bike Check: James Love’s Cotic Cascade
Mr Love, formerly of this parish, dropped by via the back roads of Calderdale. ‘You look like Jeremy Corbyn with…
502 Club Raffle #3 Win A Cotic Solaris Frame Worth £1199
Grab your tickets and wait for the draw – if you are the winner you could be the owner of…
Cotic’s Youngest Ambassador Joins Their Award Winning Line Up
Cotic’s brand ambassadors include some very inspiring women. So inspiring, two of them are in this year’s Cycling UK 100…
Cotic Jeht Gen 2: First Looks (No Feels)
The Jeht is Cotic's most recent suspension model, debuting in late 2020. Late 2023 brings in the next generation AKA…
Cotic RocketMAX Gen 4 long term review
The Cotic RocketMAX Gen 4 is the brand's flagship big travel bruiser. Made-in-UK steel front triangle with 160mm of Droplink…
Cotic FlareMAX Gen 5: First Looks ‘N’ Feels
This Cotic FlareMAX Gen 5 is the brand's 29er short-travel ripper. Besides looking very pretty in the bluebells, what is…
Radness Alert! Frameworks Racing x Cotic Steel DH Bike Collab
Cotic has designed a Reynolds 853 front triangle for World Cup DH racer (and excellent YouTube vlogger) Neko Mulally's Frameworks…
NBD: Yeti SB140, Orbea Wild, Transition TR11, Saracen 2023, Cotic x Never Strays Far
New Bike Day! There's been a flurry of new bikes announced: Yeti trail bike, Orbeaebike, Transition DH, Saracen '23 and…
142 Bike Test – The Big Short
Benji ponders the meaning of ‘short’ as he rags these three not-long travel bikes round his local trails. What is…
Review: Cotic FlareMAX Gen4
The Cotic FlareMAX Gen4 is reviewed in Issue 142 Bike Test – The Big Short. Gen4 means fourth generation. This…
First Look: Our newest long term test rig is a custom Cotic BFE Max!
You’ve seen this frame before, and you’ve seen the parts hanging from it, but now it’s finally alive and ready…
First Ride: The Gen 4 Cotic FlareMax punches way above its weight!
Now in its 4th incarnation, the Cotic FlareMax takes on frame updates, new build options and a ‘down country’ alter-ego.…
Cotic Solaris MAX 2020 | More Sparkles, More Bottle Bosses!
Cotic has revealed the latest update to the Solaris MAX, their 29er hardtail which they say can do everything from…
Cotic BFeMax Gets The Big Wheel 29in Hardcore Hardtail Treatment
Only a week after Cotic announced that there would be no more 27.5in Cotic Soul bikes in future, it has…
New 4th generation Cotic Rocket launches today
Today, Cotic brings us the new 4th generation Cotic Rocket. Made in the UK, with the strap line ‘You’d be…
Cotic Flare Ridden And Rated – Now in 135mm Option
Words Daz Hall Photography Chipps First published in Singletrack Magazine issue 126 Price: £3,249.00 (as tested) From: Cotic, cotic.co.uk On…
Cotic Launches ‘Love It Or Your Money Back’
With brands trying to figure out the best way to keep sales rolling during COVID-19 measures, Cotic has taken quite…
Cotic CC | All that way for a pint and a bike ride? You must be mad.
What makes The Cotic Cycling Club meet ups worth a 280 mile round trip for a ride and a pint?…
Video: Cotic takes us through the birth of a bike
Cotic takes us on a journey from through the UK manufacturing process of its steel bike frames. As you may…
New Cotic FlareMAX | First Ride Review
The new Cotic FlareMAX is launched today, once again at a Cotic CC event rather than a far flung media…
2019 Cotic BFe First Ride Review
James Vincent grabs a first ride on the new Cotic BFe hardtail. When launching a new bike, some bike companies…
Fresh Goods Friday 452: The ‘Wil is Going Home’ Edition
We are sad to announce that the time has finally come to bid farewell to Wil. He washed up on…
10 More Stunning Steel Full Suspension Bikes You Cannot Ignore
Steel remains real in 2019 with no sign of steel full suspension bikes disappearing from the market, in fact, there…
Cotic has a new full suspension bike! Say hello to the Longshot Flare
Brand new from Cotic Bikes is the completely redesigned Flare The Flare is Cotic’s 27.5in full suspension trail bike, and…
Singletrack Editors’ Choice Awards – Wil’s Top 4 Products Of 2018
Over the last year, our writers have tested a bucketful of bikes, a barn load of clothing and gear, and…
Top 10 Most Read Singletrack Reviews Of 2018, And Number 1 Isn’t an eBike
Last year was pretty full-on for reviews. We tested some of the hottest bikes on the market, both standard and…
Cotic-ing all the boxes: An inside look at the Cotic-Fiveland Bikes collaboration
Barney takes a trip up to that there Scotland to find out more about Cotic’s venture with fledgling Scottish framebuilders…
These are the 5 UK hardtails we want to ride this winter!
Is it just us or do all mountain bikers pine for the love of a good hardtail come the winter…
Chill out everyone, Fresh Goods Friday 420 is here
50% of the editorial team are on holiday. Only 50% of that 50% are enjoying themselves… Meanwhile in the office,…
Cotic Brings Manufacturing To The UK With 2019 Cotic RocketMAX. Full Details.
Cotic has done it again! Yup, a last minute email about another bike launch, but we forgive them because this…
The Cotic Soda – Flagship Titanium Hardtail – Returns! Longshot, but Limited
New Cotic Soda They’re like buses, eh? New bikes… You turn your back for a minute and a load have…
Review: Cotic FlareMAX. Is Longshot Geometry a step too far or a step in the right direction?
The Cotic FlareMAX 29in/27.5+ was first introduced by the Peak-district based purveyors of made out of metal bicycles, in 2016.…
Bike Check: Richard Baybutt’s Murdered Out Longshot Cotic Rocket
Richard Baybutt is Cotic’s marketing man, he’s also a wheelie machine and Megavalnche slayer, and this murdered out Longshot Cotic…
Video: See the Cotic SolarisMAX in action!
For the past two months, I’ve been testing out the brand new SolarisMAX from Cotic Bikes. The SolarisMAX is the…
Review: The latest Cotic SolarisMAX is one of the fastest hardtails we’ve tested
In case you hadn’t noticed, Cotic has been on absolute fire lately. The small Peak District-based company launched a new…
26 Ain’t Dead! Cotic has just released a new BFe hardtail 🤘🤘🤘
Peak District-based Cotic Bikes has just released what we believe to be the only new 26in mountain bike frame launched…
Fresh Goods Friday 399; 2 Bikes, A Fork And A Spoon!
Don’t worry! The apocalypse has not come! Yes Nicholas Parsons missed an episode of Just A Minute, and yes we…
Solaris Max, MaXalami and Max Madness – It’s Fresh Goods Friday 398
Good day prized readers. It is time. Time for you to sever ties with that yoga mat supplier you once…
Quit Your Job! Work with pushbikes instead!
This article was originally published in Issue 117 of Singletrack Magazine. Hannah interviews five people who’ve said ‘Right! That’s it!…
Exclusive First Look: The New Cotic Solaris Max
Cotic’s new Solaris MAX launches today. And it’s in stock. And we’ve ridden one. It’s always an exciting day for…
The Direct Approach: How the way we buy bikes is changing
The landscape of bicycle retail is shifting, and there are now an increasing number of companies that only sell direct…
What goes into designing a new bike? Cy of Cotic Bikes chats to us about the 2-year design process behind the new Rocket
In association with Cotic Unveiled over the weekend at the 2018 London Bike Show, the 3rd generation Rocket full suspension…
London Bike Show 2018 Is Go! Come by and see us!
Don't miss out on all the fun of the London Bike Show
London Bike Show Exclusive; Get A First Look At Cotic’s 3rd Generation Rocket
A new frame and revised geometry designed to help you go fast and fly high
First Look At Cotic’s Flare Max
We get a day on the brand-new Cotic FlareMAX steel full suspension bike
First Look: The All-New BFe From Cotic
Cotic has completely revamped the BFe steel hardtail, so we travelled to Cotic HQ in the Peak District to get…