Yes, I agree. In many ways the O2 shock suits me very well. I like the simplicity. Set the sag, wind the rebound all the way to the slowest, then you just have 4 levels of compression damping to play with and I find them all useful. Having said that, I spend the vast majority of the time in the middle two settings; only using 1 for road sections and 4 for long descents with no pedalling. So, it should be possible to set the CC up to suit and take advantage of the better rebound daping. At least if I do buy a CC I’ve still got the O2 for when it breaks 🙂

A couple of my Flare Max on plus tyres.

My BFe26 has been delivered! Not got my hands on it yet though…

I love my BFe26.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTTu3eNDOnS/

Is that a BFE or current Soul?

It’s one of the new BFe26s.

Nice, but aaaaaargh, that **** wishbone upsets me. Is that a small or medium?

That is a medium.

Still need to put the chain on, shorten the rear brake hose and fettle. That’ll have to wait though, can’t remember who borrowed my chain splitter and have run out of olives and barb thingies!

Very nice. I really like the mercury finish. Is the gold/ orange seat clamp by design? It works well as a hint of colour.

I’ve been wondering if I should get one to do my 26in parts justice. They just won’t shine on a BFe 275!!!

Yeah, got the orange Hope seat clamp to go with the orange highlights on the decals. Thinking about getting the adjuster on my forks re-anodised orange too!

Nice build. Those forks look great with that colour.

Yeah, thanks. I got them TFTuned and got some new decals made up for them, silver and orange, naturally, whilst waiting for the frame.

That’s proper nice, Willie.

Hoping to get my 2nd ride in this evening…

Bit of an update on mine. the HLR McQueens went back in the end, they packed up on first day in the Alps and Im now on new Pikes.

The O2 shock got swapped out for a new Cane Creek inline and feels much better, the rebound was just to fast on the O2 even at slowest setting. Guys a Cotic did a quick swap for me when I was in the area.

Oh and Ive had a Solaris max delivered today 😉

So have now had a couple of rides on this and have to say I love it.  It descends so quickly and holds speed. Despite being longer than the bike it replaced it feels more agile and it climbs way better than you would think.

The Yari forks are creaking like an old door so they are going to be replaced with Mattoc Pros and sent off for warranty.

Ok, it was a Sunday or two back, but what the hell…

It’s not Friday, but I wanted to join the Cotic love in. Picked up frame and wheels from the classifieds here and built up the rest of it with bits off of another bike.

Currently got a 27 plus front wheel as the forks are boost, but I’ll be swapping that out for a normal 27.5 wheel when I’ve got adaptors for the hub. Going to get some wider bars for it too so I’ve left the cables a little bit longer.

First ride last night and nothing fell off (including me) so that’s a great start.

Got my first ride in this morning on my new SolarisMAX. An hour and a half of my local single-track, steep and technical, sub-tropical ‘jungle.’

I sold a dual suspension rig and am retiring (for now) my carbon Highball, taking a punt on this as a do-it-all.

Pleased with the ability to take dually lines i’d avoid on my Highball. It just hammered through the rocks and roots.

Impressed with the technical climbing – better than i’d feared, so that’s a relief.

A bit concerned by the Trace 36 forks… they’ve got a horrific top out clunk which i’m really hoping is going to go away somehow!

Nice thread resurrection mate and nice pic too.👍

Make me jealous, where abouts are you riding?

Got a great Jurassic Park look to it!😁

Sadly not mine, but helped my neighbour put final tweaks to a new medium Solaris Max running with 29 wheels.

Phwoaar that’s a good looking bike!

Pics to follow

Thanks. I’m at the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
… A bit different to my native Lincolnshire 😁

Sadly the early hours of a friday 3 weeks ago was some lowlife’s Cotic day as they stole my beloved mk1 Solaris among a haul of mine and my families bikes 😢

Ouch NN that’s horrible news. Not the Pug I hope.

Hi RP, yes the Pug too 😥

Oh, man, really sorry to hear that.

Still got that large ICT frame in the shed if you’re interested 🙂

New bike
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Who’s getting a Christmas Cotic then?

I’ve got an ex-demo flareMAX on the way…

I would love a Mercury Escapade, just need to pull my finger out and get my Genesis Datum sold…

Solaris Max (nearly new!) delivery this weeekend.

Meaning the heart wrench of this Mk2 Solaris about to go into the classifieds…

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I was secretly hoping I’d knackered the BBC shell on my current bike so I could get a rocket sooner but no luck.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B50RMf5nWal/

I’m new to Cotic, wanted one for years though!

Heres mine up in snowy Eskdale

A bit of good old thread revival 😎

With lockdown etc I’d imagine there has been some good Cotic builds and new bikes delivered, etc so thought it would be good to see them if anyone wants to add to the thread.

Go on then, posted this already, but…..

Mine have all been rebuilt reasonably recently – the Roadrat and Soul during lockdown, and the BFe a couple of years back. The Soul in particular I’m enjoying being back in a light(ish – 25lbs) XC build: