[Closed] New Bike Day - Cotic Solaris Max

Spec is mostly spares from my Mojo3 which has been pointlessly upgraded:

Frame: 2nd hand Solaris Max in Medium
Headset: Cane Creek
Fork: Rockshox Yari dropped to 120mm
Wheels: Ibis Alu 41m external with Ibis hubs. A lot lighter than scrapers.
Tyres: NN 2.8s
Cranks: RF Turbine with 30T oval ring and stupid Raceface oversized axle/tiny bearing BB
Pedals: Nanos
Transmission: XT 10 speed shifter, XT shadow+ mech, new XT 10 spd cassette and KMC chain
Other bits: KS Lev 150mm post, Spoon saddle, SLX brakes, Raceface 60mm stem and 750mm Easton Haven carbon bars.

The Yari is a heavy fork but it's still a pretty light build. Should be fun in the FoD. Assuming it stops raining...

Luverly 8)

Very cool it will be ridden by your daughter too

I like it a lot.

Spec is mostly spares from my Mojo3 which has been pointlessly upgraded:

Ta. She had a lovely XS turner 5 spot before. We were very sad to see that go. She's got some good skills not inherited from me, but it's getting harder to drag her away from - well - being 16 basically 😉

Lovely looking build mate!

Congrats on the new bike. Very nice.
Congrats too for getting your daughter to ride with you. Mine is also 16 and hasn't hardly touched a bike in 2 years 😥

Ah the old upgrade one bike so you have spares for another and n+1 game

I have played that hand quite a few times 🙂

We don't ride as much as we used too. It's great fun when we do tho. I know come Feb next year she'll want to drive so this might be the last summer for a while. I intend to make the most of it... the great thing about riding in the FoD is you're never that far from a nice sit down with an ice cream 🙂

Well I've ridden it. Climbs really well but that might just be because I'm comparing it to my FS. Steers a lot quicker than my 29+ stache. Started with a bit too much air in the tyres, ended with probably too little but there's a sweet spot somewhere.

It's basically a 2 wheeled go-kart. Has a lovely balance and whether it's placebo or not, I'm a fan of the steel ride. Happy to ride al the gap jumps. No obvious vices. Just fun to ride.

Taking child 2 out Friday so we'll see how that goes...

Took my daughter out

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As you can see she was delighted to have her picture taken while eating an energy bar 🙂

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But since she hadn't ridden off road for 2 years, she did fantastically well, The pic below is actually a video on flickr. Always fun watching the fork working! Also made me realise I'd let the clutch turned off, check out that chain slap...

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Needs narrower bars. Otherwise a great fit. And as she wants to come out again - once she's stopped aching - that's a result all round 🙂

Nice bike mate, fancy one myself.

Bikes look shite .... 😉

Specially that MAX.... 😆

Which one ? 🙂

Which one ?

Take yer pick, I'm not fussy.... 😛

<ok I missed the flare was also a MAX, duh...> 😳

Strictly chubby in the shed nowadays. That's four. Not quite sure how it happened!

Well, I've a Sherpa [i]and [/i]a SolarisMAX in chubby flavour. These things happen (far too easily if you ask me!) 😳

If it weren't for the state of my bank account, I'd think they were breeding like gremlins 🙂

Oh, [i]four[/i] that's taking things to an extreme I feel.... 😆

Aye, if I had space and money there'd be a Flare or RocketMAX kicking about mine as well...

Just as well I've neither (mind you I did just sell my motorbike..... 🙄 )

No, it's almost an 'austerity shed'. My long sold fat bike was the gateway drug into the world of chubby. Then I bought a 2nd hand Stache which I converted from 29+ to 27.5+. Enjoyed that so much and being a cotic Famboi couldn't resist a flare max after a demo. And as I had a special birthday coming up AND an ex-demo Mojo3 came up that seemed entirely reasonable.

And this bike is for my daughter. Or a way to keep spares from cluttering up the shed. All makes perfect sense. I pretend it's a sound financial strategy and my wife pretends to believe me. It's the core of our relationship 🙂

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Some would see duplication, I see only diversity and perfection 🙂 I am selling my road bike and my Bird Aeris. As I need to make room in the shed and make peace with my good lady!

I've studiously avoid the demo days (they ended up doing a demo <15 miles from my new abode, fortunately I was committed to my BAM for 17 :D) last time a bought the original Rocket...

Yeah I bought a rocket. And then a few months later, the demo Solaris that Cy goaded me into trying on the demo day. I didn't even want a hardtail!

The Mojo is useless in any kind of sustained mud, there's no clearance anywhere. It's a brilliant bike but it'll be put away when winter comes. That'll leave me the bare minimum of other bikes..

Wrote a thing: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?p=3893

Alex - Member
Wrote a thing: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?p=3893

Well written 🙂 Would love to have had that kind of 'quality time' with my dad. Im so jealous of todays kids - parenting has come on leaps & bounds imo. Well done dad! 😀

That'll leave me the bare minimum of other bikes..

Alex did a funny!

Wrote a thing: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?p=3893

Like that thing 😀

Alex did a funny!

It's was ace riding with Jess. I just came back from ripping round cwmcarn with my mates and that was fantastic as well. But if I could only have one... I hope I'd choose to ride with my kids 🙂