Thinking about getting a new frame and I keep coming back to the Cotic Soul (been around the houses with BFe, Slackline, Breath, RC104, Kili Flyer Cromo), but it’s new model time and I wonder if I should wait to see what Cotic have to offer for 2014?
Guess you could if you wanted. But a proper one with road angles. I saw a picture of a prototype a few years ago, I think they’ve put it on the back burner though
I’ve just read the e mail that Cy sent out today and was just pondering, does anyone really run 160mm forks on a hardtail? Personally i just can’t get on with hardtails with more than 100mm of travel, and to be honest 90% of my riding doesn’t warrant more anyway, i wouldn’t knock anyone who was using 160mm but it seems excessive to me. Thoughts (about this!).
From what I’ve gathered about the new stuff it’s a bold but clever move that Cotic have taken. You’ll be pleasantly surprised
You’ll need to give us a bit more than that. Say, hypothetically, you were thinking of pulling the trigger on a 26″ Five frame in the morning. Would you wait?
It’s got nothing to do with me & I have no interest in leaking any info.
I think what they are doing is brilliant and the pleasure of announcing what’s going on shouldn’t be taken from those who’ve put in a lot of hard work.
It’s got nothing to do with me & I have no interest in leaking any info.
Fair enough.
If we’re playing a guessing game I’ll go for “moving (at least some) production to the UK”. I think that Cy has said that he’d be interested in doing this in the past, shipping costs are only going to increase and, as we can see from this thread, most of the frustration from customers is not about the bikes but about problems with supply, so it would make sense.
Bold and clever?…nevermind one road bike, Cotic will cease producing mountain bikes and start making only road bikes to get in on the post Olympics/Wiggins/Froome road bike boom!
(Though maybe with a new fat bike to keep STWers happy) 😀