Yes, I agree. In many ways the O2 shock suits me very well. I like the simplicity. Set the sag, wind the rebound all the way to the slowest, then you just have 4 levels of compression damping to play with and I find them all useful. Having said that, I spend the vast majority of the time in the middle two settings; only using 1 for road sections and 4 for long descents with no pedalling. So, it should be possible to set the CC up to suit and take advantage of the better rebound daping. At least if I do buy a CC I’ve still got the O2 for when it breaks 🙂
Still need to put the chain on, shorten the rear brake hose and fettle. That’ll have to wait though, can’t remember who borrowed my chain splitter and have run out of olives and barb thingies!
Yeah, got the orange Hope seat clamp to go with the orange highlights on the decals. Thinking about getting the adjuster on my forks re-anodised orange too!
Bit of an update on mine. the HLR McQueens went back in the end, they packed up on first day in the Alps and Im now on new Pikes.
The O2 shock got swapped out for a new Cane Creek inline and feels much better, the rebound was just to fast on the O2 even at slowest setting. Guys a Cotic did a quick swap for me when I was in the area.
So have now had a couple of rides on this and have to say I love it. It descends so quickly and holds speed. Despite being longer than the bike it replaced it feels more agile and it climbs way better than you would think.
The Yari forks are creaking like an old door so they are going to be replaced with Mattoc Pros and sent off for warranty.
It’s not Friday, but I wanted to join the Cotic love in. Picked up frame and wheels from the classifieds here and built up the rest of it with bits off of another bike.
Currently got a 27 plus front wheel as the forks are boost, but I’ll be swapping that out for a normal 27.5 wheel when I’ve got adaptors for the hub. Going to get some wider bars for it too so I’ve left the cables a little bit longer.
First ride last night and nothing fell off (including me) so that’s a great start.
Sadly the early hours of a friday 3 weeks ago was some lowlife’s Cotic day as they stole my beloved mk1 Solaris among a haul of mine and my families bikes 😢
With lockdown etc I’d imagine there has been some good Cotic builds and new bikes delivered, etc so thought it would be good to see them if anyone wants to add to the thread.
Mine have all been rebuilt reasonably recently – the Roadrat and Soul during lockdown, and the BFe a couple of years back. The Soul in particular I’m enjoying being back in a light(ish – 25lbs) XC build: