[Closed] Cotic?

Don't they're rubbish. I hate my Roadrat, the beautifully high quality of finish really winds me up. Thinking of getting a Soul so I can be really miserable.

Ah, I wondered if that was new - I'm not very observant generally

Mastiles, I'm starting up a new bike company, ICCO bikes - want one (or ten)?

Ah, I wondered if that was new - I'm not very observant generally

Was just thinking something had changed...

was just about to post the same thing. Is this now singletrackworld, powered by cotic? Should be expected alot of 10/10's for every cotic bike now?

I like it - much more subtle :o)

So will the forum be developing a crack soon? 😉

must........buy........cotic......

[strokes white cat and cackles maniacally from top secret bunker in a hollowed out gritstone crag]

Can I wash your back for you sir? 😉

Nice.

So glad it's not 'clickable'. The left hand margin of the page is my last safe haven for my fat fingers on my laptop mouse pad.

I must be responsible for about 50% of the click throughs from this site...

I don't get it, I love my Soul, and there are plenty of others on here that do too, almost seems to be a daily thread recommending them,

That being the case, and maybe I'm not getting it or something, but I assume cotic has paid a bit of money for all this advertising, surely this isn't the best place for it??

If when cy reads this, he agrees and pulls his advertising, I take no responsibility for the loss of income to stw 😯 , but more importantly could I get one of the new cross bikes as reward for all the money I saved you??? 😉

[i](The proof the advertising is working is this thread ; ] Thanks very much. Matt ad manager and occasional Mod).[/i]

So not just as I'm on a bigger screen then, although could be that as well, came down stairs for some brekkie having been lying in bed with the laptop and hit in the face by the Cotic borders.

oh, a cotic is a bike ? But I already [b]have[/b] a bike...

I can remember what was there before.

That's one horrible and very annoying background. Wheres the off switch?

Yeah it is a bit much.

Got rid now tho.

Drac - Member
So not just as I'm on a bigger screen then, although could be that as well, came down stairs for some brekkie having been lying in bed with the laptop and hit in the face by the Cotic borders.

Yeah Tracker on a 26" screen they're huge.

I was dreading this on my big screen at home. Thankfully it's now gone. Not really relevant to me, I bought my Soul on the strength of trying a mate's, who'd bought his second hand cos he needed a bike fast after his was in a torched van. So I can honestly say that not one penny of Cotic's marketing might influenced the purchase of my or his cotics 😀

(And clearly the bloke who sold his to him thought it was rubbish 😉 )

Oh no. I pressed a {content censored button} and it doesn't say {advertisers name removed} but nor does it say Singletrackworld either.

Clever.

Oh yes - oops.....

That's one horrible and very annoying background. Wheres the off switch?

Oh come on, it's not really that bad is it?

Light grey on slightly-darker light grey. It's hardly in your face.

Doesn't bother me at all to be honest, In fact I'm quite intrigued by these ICCOTs (or is it TICCO?)

I thought it was a warning against frittering your life away in the forum.

TOC TIC TOC TIC TOC TIC TOC TIC TOC TIC TOC TIC...

Well, I now don't know what forum i'm on, or who sponsors it! Anyone care to help me out?

You're on the Bike Magic forum, sponsored by Lapierre.

Ah, cheers 😉

I can't see what you're all on about. Where is it?

5hrs now & the 3d image just isn't appearing.
Tell me what it is... 🙂

do you have astigmatism takisawa2?

I spent a large part of my youth pretending I could see 'hidden images' in those weird pictures everyone used to get as I could never, ever, see them and felt embarassed.

I found out last year they don't work if you have an astigmatism in either eye.

Sell my Cotic Soul? I'd rather shove wasps up my asre! 😀

Cant beleiev i have just noticed it. Subliminal advertising, very clever

get the poor mans alternative an Orange P7 😉

5hrs now & the 3d image just isn't appearing.

"What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt, and I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-titted mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit. Look at me, look at me, you sloppy bitch! "

Very subliminal here...

[img] [/img]

I have astigmatism and can see those magic eye things! can someone suggest me a new bike, I kind fancy one that begins with a C?

Chumba, Commencal?

barry, if like me you are using firefox, get rid of the sidebar and you might see a grey border. then ctrl+scroll untill the text on the forum makes your eyes hurt and you might be able to read it.

wierd how it vanishes due to the sidebar.

aaahhh, cheers.

ahh me too. wondered what everyone was on about 🙂

And in IE6?

I have just driven back two hours down the motorway, thinking do I buy a new Cotic, how /when do I sell my Yeti and Santa C to do this!!! I even wondered why this had got into my mind!!! 😯

sorry stw, but it's slowed down my browser so much that - temporarily I hope - I've had to do something naughty 😳

sorry stw, but it's slowed down my browser so much

Hmmm was a 21kB image really slowing your browser that much??
I'm surprised you can look at any websites.

Oddly, yes. My PC isn't exactly crappy but while the ad is visible it noticably affects scrolling on STW. Make the window smaller and it's all good again.

Blimey! Doesn't seem to have any affect on mine. The Cotic bit doesn't scroll and the rest of the forum does.

Oddly, yes. My PC isn't exactly crappy but while the ad is visible it noticably affects scrolling on STW. Make the window smaller and it's all good again.

Same here- little bit annoying.

Are your using the right driver for your graphics card or just the default Windows one?

And the same here as well (Firefox and XP).

Luckily I already own a Cotic so I don't actually need to see the ad.

I think they must have heard that I'm contemplating getting one of the cheap ti456's. So sorry if its my fault... 😉

is the CX frame ready yet?

I'm Liking them too - mmmm should i get one?

"get the poor mans alternative an Orange P7 "
The RRP is £450 this year! A Cotic Soul is £470 inc. seat collar, chainstay protector and delivery, and I think lighter? I'd say a P7 was [b]more[/b] expensive

Also, despite reading this thread yesterday, I've only just seen the Cotic sidebars ..

While STW towers is aware adblocking goes on i think they might take offence at posting something quite so overt.

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While STW towers is aware adblocking goes on i think they might take offence at posting something quite so overt.

So noone's worked out yet that right click on any picture usually gives a 'copy link location' option? 🙄

I only just noticed the Cotics halfway down this thread. I wondered WTFF you were all on about!

I think I want a 456. Seriously.

I'd have one if they were in production

wierd how it vanishes due to the sidebar.

Appears here whether I have a sidebar or not. Can't see why the sidebar would affect it or do you just mean that when the sidebar is open that the screen is to narrow to require any background padding?

That would depend on the size of your monitor. I'm on a wide-screen monitor at work and the actual forum'y bit is only about a third of the screen - the rest is all background.

[b]Note to STW web staff:[/b]

You have two backgrounds overlayed on top of each other.

You have [img] [/img] mainbackground.gif on body

And then you overlay
[img] [/img] inwrapcotic.gif on the #inwrap div.

I suspect that may be why some people are reporting weird scrolling.

I suspect that may be why some people are reporting weird scrolling.

I know we have them on top of each other. This morning I tried it by applying it to <body> but future adverts will use transparency over the <body> background. The user I had confab with still reported the same issue.

Besides, placing one background over the top of another should have no issues at all. Just like the header is #div with a background, on top of #wrapstar, which is on top of <body>.

That would depend on the size of your monitor. I'm on a wide-screen monitor at work and the actual forum'y bit is only about a third of the screen - the rest is all background.

Don't full-screen all your windows then! Nothing looks worse than a normal webpage all lonely in the middle of a window blatted all over a massive monitor surrounded by whitespace or worse, background.

Hmm.. oh well, I thought it might if one background is set to scroll and the one on top is fixed (like cotic).

But I don't see the issue here, so can't really try it out. 🙂

Don't full-screen all your windows then!

Oh, so now our use of the browser is dictated by Cotic? Brilliant...

Don't full-screen all your windows then!

Some of the sites on other tabs benefit from being full width, including our intranet site. I can't really be bother resizing my browser window every time I change tab.

my post about the element causing the scrolling problem has been pulled.

very grown up.

What if someone stopped coming here because of the scrolling issue caused by one ad? What do you say to the other ad buyers? If inwrapcotic.gif is causing the problem, why should Mr CRC lose page views?

LOL!

Reminds me of the IT crowd 'Cuke' references.

http://kylewhite.net/2009/03/15/hacking-the-it-crowd-season-3-dvd/

[i]We Buy ANY COTIC! [/i]
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dot com

(very annoying jingle for "We Buy Any Car ..dot com")

WTF is Cuke?

(very annoying jingle for "We Buy Any Car ..dot com")

I can't decide whether that jingle has some sort of genius in its simplicity.

[i](very annoying jingle for "We Buy Any Car ..dot com") [/i]
ah. I use adblocker.

Monkey-boy "get the poor mans alternative an Orange P7"

Ah. Satire. Poor men usually buy something cheaper and less good, not something more expensive yet still better value 😉