Cotic Soul…Lets see them

Did a search but could not find many pics(not all in the same places at least) pretty sure i need one.. convince me :-).

This bike has really got under my skin, not sure why either as I don’t think they’re that special…yet I’m besotted! Sadly, it’ll be for my wife and not me 😥

Perhaps it’s all about the classic lines?

I’m looking for one too…

some pron to keep you going

http://www.ihaveasoul.co.uk/

Stoatsbrother.. Thanks for the link, it will keep me busy for a while.
hopefully we will both be able to add a couple of pics to it in the future.

Funnily enough reason Iam thinking about getting one is related to a really old Carrera £0 bike i used for a week or so,a while back.

I can’t believe I’ve been driving through Calver, unaware of the Cotic Presence…I’m such a slender appendage at times. I wonder if they do finance…that way I could make sneak payments to get past the wife’s HOSAS?

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RCM10 087[/url] by Richard Maude[/url], on Flickr

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RCM10 086[/url] by Richard Maude[/url], on Flickr

I’ve had mine around 18 months now and still get a thrill just looking at it !

didn’t look very far

Klunk, you were faster on the trigger. Was just about to say there was a thread on the exact topic a while back 😛

I think you will find a few on here;

Klunk… Clearly !

Wildhart.. Youve convinced me 😀

I have ridden my Simple since 2008, I have more expensive bikes that have been gathering dust since.

Plenty of Soul photo’s on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/groups/cotic_bikes/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/coticriders/

I’m hoping their new Solaris (29er) has just a little of what the Soul has.
March seems like such a long way away though. 😐

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solaris first build[/url] by CoticLtd[/url], on Flickr

Thanks for all the replies…

Sizing ? I have looked through the thread that Klunk posted, but they all seem to giants asking the q’s.

At 5’9 all my other bikes are 18″ and I am really happy with their sizing, however I was hoping if i got a Soul i could get away with a 16″ as i have always fancied having a more chuckable hard tail, but I don’t want to have to use a laid back seat post (wiffletree) as I want an uppy downy post.. Anybody about the same hieght ride a 16″

Cheers

I’m 5’9 and a bit…and have a medium, with a layback post and a 90mm stem. Most on here around my height seem to run mediums with shorter stems, inline posts with a gert stack of spacers. So I guessing I like my position pretty stretched, but i am a bit of a roadie and like my stems slammed!

Here you go:

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Soul G1[/url] by Sofaboy TT[/url], on Flickr

And, gratuitously, its prettier sister…:

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Soda G2[/url] by Sofaboy TT[/url], on Flickr

Metalheart…I’ll ride shotgun and take the ugly sister..

I’ve had two and love them.

this first

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Back of Conwy Mountain[/url] by eastham_david[/url], on Flickr

and now this

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P1030728[/url] by eastham_david[/url], on Flickr

third continent? nowhere near retirement, poor old girl!

Some are more likely to offend than others…

Lol at righog.

There was a thread about sisters recently. This one I approve of…

Souls are brilliant. I love mine. Can’t wait for the Solaris neither.

Now, is that another sister or a cousin…

A sister with longer legs ??… Nice

I have just quickly totted up a potential build, with XT, Fox RL 140’s and and uppy downy post…£2,200 bloody hell !

I think it will be a frame swap with some new forks for my build.

Here’s mine, I returned to the Soul after owning an original for 6 years, without incident and with lots of good biking memories. Got FS curious and plumped for “the best engineered frame you could buy” which lasted 6 months before breaking. Back to the soul then, and it’s interesting after riding an FS then back to the Soul to see how they compare. Needless to say the Soul, despite costing 1/4 of the FS, is a supremely better bike.

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DSCF1327[/url] by Johnny Panic’s Photo Evidence[/url], on Flickr

sorry just built my orange CEN Soul with maverick forks but tis just too late to take a piccy but it looks ace

Mine. Love it.

I don’t believe that fits in that shed!

That is a very small shed

or

a big dog kennel

I just assumed honourablegeorge was 9 ft tall

that back wheel on the solaris looks a bit tight with the seat tube !!

It is indeed a dog kennel. None of my dogs have even gone inside it, though. It serves very little purpose.

Righog – re sizing the Cotic website (under the sizing tab) says the 16″ is good for up to 5’9″ but I suspect that is with a 90mm stem. So in theory yeah you can. At just under 6′ I’m just within a medium. But I need a layback pin and wide-ish bars (well 695 is wide-ish for me) to do that (70mm stem). It all depends on what you like.

The best thing to do is speak/email to Cy/Paul and they will set you straight. They convinced me to go medium when I was swithering. They do know what they are talking about!

None of my dogs have even gone inside it

Maybe they have difficulty in undoing the latch…

IGMC

dont see what all the fuss is about.. looks a bit like my 1992 Kona Explosif

Manitou..I think you have hit the nail on the head, the fuss is because they look like a 1992 Kona..They may well ride better though.. Have you got a picture ?

Dont have it anymore sold it. Wish I hadnt.

I think you like them Really 😉

dont see what all the fuss is about.. looks a bit like my 1992 Kona Explosif

Well there is a good reason for that! 😀

Funnily enough the two best hardtails I’ve ridden were a kona explosif & a cotic soul

Like these…………..

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=108970