The Cotic Bikes Thread!!!!

allthegearnoidea

Right, i thought it's about time we had our own thread seeing as the Carerra boys and girls and the canyon'ers and others have their threads, So here's Ours!!!!

My Custard soul, had it 4 years, Love it to bits, much more bike than i'll ever need!!!




if i ever break it, i'll buy another!!!! its been built and turned into a Complete tarts bike, all the bolts replaced except 6 (one stem, top cap bolt, 2 rotor bolts and the saddle rail clamps!), its all disco coloured and completely Not to other peoples tastes, but i Love it!!!!
25lb on the nose on the scales,

post up yours please!!! spread the love!!!

dusk

My Cotic BFe, had her for maybe 6 months and really love it. It's got quite a stealth colour scheme going on (not particularly on purpose as I had a lot of the parts already and new bits only came in black)



Spec:
Large 19" mk2 frame in Gritstone
Fox float 140 forks 15mm axle
Shimano XT trail wheels running tubeless and Ardent tyres
SLX 2x10 drivetrain with shadow+ mech (except for xt front shifter & lx front mech)
Reverb 125mm drop post
RaceFace Turbine stem & SixC 730mm bars
XT brakes with 200/180mm Hayes rotors & SS kevlar pads
Hope tapered headset with crown reducer
Madison prime saddle
Division grips
Cotic qr seatclamp
M530 spd's

mrlee

About time. A cotic thread

Nice bikes there fellas. Will get some pics of mine up tomorrow. Going for a local blast tomorrow

specialeyes

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My bfe. More pics and spec in my sig. old pic but I've only changed the seatpost clamp to a superstar one and I broke the seat so I put my ragley one on. Apart from that it's been awesome!

pesky_jones

This thread is overdue - the soul and BFe are two brilliant bikes

mountaincookie

Not disco disco but a real slice of my kind of colour scheme. Only ridden properly once....managed to get my wrist in a pot shortly after the second photo was taken. Not to worry....it's coming off in a few days...

allthegearnoidea

Do love that colour!

@lexD

Here's my soul

First ride


Current spec



Forks: rockshox reba 120mm taped 15 QR
Bars: crank brothers Iodine 3 30mm rise 700mm length
Stem: superstar zephir 70mm 5deg rise
Headset: hope
Grips: superstar

Brakes : hope mono mini
discs: superstar 180mm floating
Hoses: hope
Shifters: shimano SLX
Cables: jagwire
Front Mech: shimano SLX 2x9
Rear Mech: shimano XT

Seat: charge pan leather
Seat Post: rockshox reverb dropper
Seat Post Clamp: hope

Cranks: shimano deore
Chainring(s): shimano deore 38/22
Chain: Kmc
Cassette: shimano SlX 11-34
Pedals: wellgo b54
Bottom Bracket: hope
Wheels: crank brothers cobalt 2
Tire: charge splashback

Northwind

Oh well OK then...

Started with a Soul... Rode this all over, it basically taught me how to ride a bike. Lovely. I had a Scandal before, then I demo'd the Soul and never had a good ride on the On One again, it just felt so poor by comparison. Seen here during a rather muddy 10 Under The Ben



Then along came a bouncing baby Hemlock- I bought this on Ebay, while drunk. Great success!




P1030797 by Northwindlowlander, on Flickr

It's built a little heavy these days- coil lyriks, Butchers, works components slackening headset, all tough durable kit for alps trips, enduro racing etc. 32lbs despite weightweenying. The sort of bike you can rag round glentress but then the next week take to fort william. Love this bike, absolutely love it. I've broken it twice mind- snapped the swingarm after the endurance downhill race, and cracked the original 120mm rocker at fort william. But fair enough I reckon! Cotic were brilliant both times, I bought it used and I told them "I hammer the **** out of it so I can't fault it for breaking, how much to buy a replacement part", they wouldn't hear of it. Absolutely top stuff.

But, having a big slack monster of a full suss made me wish the Soul was a bit meaner too, so in the end I replaced it with a Ragley, and then with a BFe. I didn't like the Bfe much tbh, it was a lump. Only known photo!


Dave by Northwindlowlander, on Flickr

(that's my brother in the pic, at Learnie)

Most recent addition is an old-model Soda... This one was pre-cracked, I got the frame from Singletrackworld for buttons then got Enigma to weld it back up, then threw all the rigid bits off my carrera onto it. It is just silly tbh, so light that it's quite hard to ride, but great fun. Just got it a set of Sids so it can be a proper bike from time to time.


IMG_1731 by Northwindlowlander, on Flickr

Oh yeah and a Roadrat but it doesn't count.

allthegearnoidea

What no Simple??? ;-) you've got/had the whole fleet lol!

Northwind

No Simple, Solaris or X, and can't afford a Rocket. Donations accepted though

mrlee

My orange 2nd gen soul

felix.london

Lovely looking bikes all round! I like this thread

SpeshFSR

Thought I'd join in,
Been lurking on the forum for ages and thought why not join in with a conversation.

Built this Bfe early this year. Sold a Specialized FSR XC frame and moved most of the parts over to the Cotic frame.
Took a fair few rides to get used to a steel hardtail, initially wanted to go back to a full suspension bike but stuck with it. Now absolutely love it. Goes without saying it's very different to a XC suspension bike but once I learned how to ride the hardtail I just keep wanting to go out on it all the time. It's so much fun.

Went for the Gritstone in large.
Mostly Shimano XT groupset, Saint brakes, Hope Pro 2 hubs with mavic xc717 rims.

Love it love it love it!!!

allthegearnoidea

Nice and subtle there fella, like it!
Am currently trying to deny the Urge to buy Bright PINK grips at the mo! Haha!

fat_homer

Oh go on then:

2013-06-26 by SamDexter, on Flickr

RoughChuckles

My first generation Soul purchased back in 2006 or 2007 ( I forget) on a very hot and sunny day at CwmCarn. After a few years of abuse and a top tube ding it went to Argos Cycles in Bristol, losing it's orginal red paintwork in the respray it got there. I had Argos replace the original closed top tube/seat stay hose guides with open, zip-tie, guides and had the ding sorted out at the same time. Lovely bike!


A hot day in Wales by rob.pole, on Flickr

mrlee

Very nice collection all round guys.

RoughChuckles wrote:

My first generation Soul purchased back in 2006 or 2007 ( I forget) on a very hot and sunny day at CwmCarn.

I'm trying to remember that sunny day in Wales. There hasn't been many, lol

KLJ#14

Here's a few photos of my orange Solaris

Sram X0 gears,
Rotor oval chainring on a Zee crank
Hope m4 brakes
Stans Arch EX rims on Superstar Tesla hubs right now. (Waiting on a set of Hope Hoops)

Northwind

Lovely that!

neilp7

Some lovely looking bikes on here!
Just waiting for my Bfe frame to come back from the powder coaters, then hopefully i'll be posting soon!

allthegearnoidea

What colour have you gone for??

neilp7

Only gloss black, as I like the stealth(ish) look!

Motley13

Heres mine,



Another Duck egg Soul, rides beautiful and looks beautiful in my eyes. Picture was taken on my first real ride with the bike and i must now say i love my Soul.

Lewis A

mountaincookie wrote:

Not disco disco but a real slice of my kind of colour scheme. Only ridden properly once....managed to get my wrist in a pot shortly after the second photo was taken. Not to worry....it's coming off in a few days...

Really like the red and green, it's like a watermelon! Not sure about the saddle though...

mrlee

With new tyres on

specialeyes

That's a beauty Mr Lee. loving the tyres.

mrlee

specialeyes wrote:

That's a beauty Mr Lee. loving the tyres.

Cheers. You get change from £25 a pair on ebay for them. Worth a go

allthegearnoidea

quick shot from tuesday evening, was taken at 21:15 out on the coast path, Beautiful ride!


forgot to add, popped some new grips on too!


i'd been using superstar ones for a while but the last lot wore out form easter to june, and these were a tenner!! - most likely due to the mildly shocking colour! :shock: and as my old lizard skins are still useable after 4 years figured why not!! also a bit of a thing in the club about fitting or using something Rediculously Bright pink after one guy got some trot lee gloves in that colour gratis with an order recently! :-D

mrlee

Tarting of the highest order. I love it

pete_s

My Cotic BFe. Now with Exotic flat pedals and a Shimano RT76 rotor on the rear. Front one will have to wait until next pay day.

Any suggestions for some forks? I'm tempted by some 32 Float RL Evo by Fox...