They don’t give much away, but we spotted these shots in the personal snapshot gallery of one of Cotic’s graphic designers. The photos, from this week show that there’s a lot of machining, tube bending and TIG welding going on in the Penistone, Sheffield HQ of Bicycle Manufacturing Ltd (more on them from our story here). As it was announced that all future Cotic droplink full suspension bikes will be manufactured here, we can only assume that that’s what they’re currently working on. Seems the CNC machine is being kept busy, but there are also shots of tube bending mandrels and some TIG welding.
With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
That R&D looks like tough work..