Flipping heck have I been under a rock? £900 for a steel hardtail frame?
Look up the new Cotic Solaris thread!
Be interested to see if it’s full 853 for that price. Only need to use the downtube to able allowed to put a sticker on it. Eg Solaris states 853 front triangle
The main triangle is 853, as per Pace responding to @chakaping 's question in Pinbike comments.
Question for the 429 owners here...
How are you liking it???
I'm in the market for a steel hardtail and the Pace is ticking lots of boxes for me. Sadly I'm nowhere remotely close to them so a demo ride is out of the question. I've previously had a Solaris Max running 120mm and 130mm forks and was wondering how the Pace compares? Riding is going to be the Chilterns trails, mainly XC stuff with the odd trail centre thrown in for good measure. It'll most likely end up as my main winter bike.
Just trying to make my mind up before they come back in stock.
@crossed im still loving mine, im in Princes Riz if you want to take a look.
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@andos I've been trying to figure out how to send you a PM but PMs appear to be broken again.
Out of interest, what size is your frame and what length dropper are you running with it? I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and order a frame but need a new dropper for it as my current one is 31.6mm and I've found a decent deal on AXS Reverbs that expires in a couple of days!
Hmm interesting stuff. I'm glad this thread popped up again. I could be in the market for a new frame soon and on paper this looks great. I really want something that's adventure / bike packing capable - with the rigid forks on this would be great for that.
However I also would like it to be trail capable too. I was looking at the Sonder Broken road also, but that is more towards the shorter travel end of what I would really want. This RC429 looks closer to what I'd like ideally.
I think the only thing this misses for me on paper vs the Sonder is the ability to run it singlespeed. I'd have to use a tensioner or maybe one of those trick eccentric bottom brackets I think. But - it's probably no biggie. I think I would rather have the UDH than slidey dropouts anyway.
I'm probably going to drop pace an email with some questions - but on the off chance - does anyone know if/where they do demos from? Thornton Le Dale shop?
