W.I.P: 2010 Cotic BFe FRAME PICTURES

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  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    Well,. the frame is here and what a beauty she is....... feels remarkably light for a steel frame and the colour is gorgeous, almost identical to the Marin 8)

    Paint job is second to none, and it really feels solid.

    Shall be a couple of weeks til shes built up, and Friday need to order new cranks, headset and gear cables.. oh and a hope seatclamp ;)

    Here she is (her name is Babs)

    and apologies for pipping Tolk to the readers rides section. :oops:
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  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO thats just too gorgeous!

    i want one! ahhhhh, im just sooo enviouse right now. i really would give anything for one of them. if i had the money to buy the frame and get the parts i would need to give it a frame justifying spec to add to the stuff i already have......
    I like bikes and stuff
  • jay12
    jay12 Posts: 6,306
    why buy a new headest when you have one already?

    frame looks amazing. can't wait to see it built up
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  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    jay12 wrote:
    why buy a new headest when you have one already?

    frame looks amazing. can't wait to see it built up

    Ahhh - sold it and swapped for a better model...... ;)
  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,780
    that frame does look nice. a bomb proof bling baby named babs, eh 8)
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    Oh and the 12mm-10mm nutted axle fitted.... :lol:

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  • blister pus
    blister pus Posts: 5,780
    aw bless.

    :lol:
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    blister pus wrote:
    aw bless.

    :lol:

    LOL - it's all can fit to it at the moment, hence my ( :lol: ) after.

    Cannot believe I have misplaced my headset press, I pointblank refuse to pay the wanker at my LBS anything.. I would rather shell out £35 on another one!!!

    Once that's done the buld can commence!!!

    Can't wait to take it out!!! :D It just gives off that 'Fun' vibe....
  • Stoo61
    Stoo61 Posts: 1,394
    When I earn enough to warrant a hardcore hardtail...it'll be a Cotic.
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  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    I'm not quite sold as the frame being a Hardcore HT tbh :(

    Whats the head angle/BB height gonna be with a 160mm fork?
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    bigbenj_08 wrote:
    I'm not quite sold as the frame being a Hardcore HT tbh :(

    Whats the head angle/BB height gonna be with a 160mm fork?

    It's probably one of the best known HC HTs out there if not the....

    Also one of the toughest steel frames available....

    67.6 headtube angle with 160mm ;)
  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    Looks like a poor mans Yeti Arc...
  • Andy
    Andy Posts: 8,207
    The Big Cheese wrote:
    It's probably one of the best known HC HTs out there if not the....

    You're thinking of a Santacruz Chameleon
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    Andy wrote:
    Looks like a poor mans Yeti Arc...

    you need to go to SpecSavers matey.....
  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    The Big Cheese wrote:
    bigbenj_08 wrote:
    I'm not quite sold as the frame being a Hardcore HT tbh :(

    Whats the head angle/BB height gonna be with a 160mm fork?

    It's probably one of the best known HC HTs out there if not the....

    Also one of the toughest steel frames available....

    67.6 headtube angle with 160mm ;)

    What I mean is... the specs are based on a 130mm fork.
    Its sorta like a frame that can take 160mm but is built around 130 if you get me... they even say it'll take 100mm which should be horrible if the frame was based on 160mm!
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    bigbenj_08 wrote:
    The Big Cheese wrote:
    bigbenj_08 wrote:
    I'm not quite sold as the frame being a Hardcore HT tbh :(

    Whats the head angle/BB height gonna be with a 160mm fork?

    It's probably one of the best known HC HTs out there if not the....

    Also one of the toughest steel frames available....

    67.6 headtube angle with 160mm ;)

    What I mean is... the specs are based on a 130mm fork.
    Its sorta like a frame that can take 160mm but is built around 130 if you get me... they even say it'll take 100mm which should be horrible if the frame was based on 160mm!

    http://www.cotic.co.uk/geek/
  • The Northern Monkey
    The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
    Yeah i've seen that... mean the actual sizing geometry!
    Its a lovely frame no doubt! I'm just intrigued to know how 1 head angle can cater properly for 100mm to 160mm!
    Santa Cruz Butcher
  • The Big Cheese
    The Big Cheese Posts: 8,651
    bigbenj_08 wrote:
    Yeah i've seen that... mean the actual sizing geometry!
    Its a lovely frame no doubt! I'm just intrigued to know how 1 head angle can cater properly for 100mm to 160mm!

    There are quite a few frames with similar geo and can run different fork lengths, granted, the hadling will alter dramatically. The BFe from talking to them about it was never designed for 100mm forks although they can be run with them, but for longer (as you said 130mm upwards)

    Mine is a medium, you can see straight by looking at it that its a LT frame.
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    bigbenj_08 wrote:
    Its a lovely frame no doubt! I'm just intrigued to know how 1 head angle can cater properly for 100mm to 160mm!

    Why wouldn't it? Lots of hardtails over the years have covered big ranges, it just depends what you want it to do.Pers'nally I'd sooner have a shorter fork and slacker head angle, mind.
    Uncompromising extremist

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