Best eMTB of the Year: Cotic Rocket

Best eMTB of the Year: Cotic Rocket

The Cotic Rocket looks like nothing else. And it outperforms every other eeb out there.

Cotic Cascade Drop Bar Bronze review

Cotic Cascade Drop Bar Bronze review

It's very hard to fault the Cotic Cascade. I am sad to be sending it back. Do you need to know more?

Readers’ Rides: Steel Special

Readers’ Rides: Steel Special

For this edition of Readers’ Rides, Neal and Sam both share their steel full suspension mountain bikes.

Bike Check: James Love’s Cotic Cascade

Bike Check: James Love’s Cotic Cascade

Mr Love, formerly of this parish, dropped by via the back roads of Calderdale. ‘You look like Jeremy Corbyn with that stem!’ cried our Benji. Cue much excited jabber about…

502 Club Raffle #3 Win A Cotic Solaris Frame Worth £1199

502 Club Raffle #3 Win A Cotic Solaris Frame Worth £1199

Grab your tickets and wait for the draw – if you are the winner you could be the owner of a Cotic Solaris hardtail frame in your choice of size…

Cotic’s Youngest Ambassador Joins Their Award Winning Line Up

Cotic’s Youngest Ambassador Joins Their Award Winning Line Up

Cotic’s brand ambassadors include some very inspiring women. So inspiring, two of them are in this year’s Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling list. Firstly, Jo Shwe is the force…

Cotic Jeht Gen 2: First Looks (No Feels)

Cotic Jeht Gen 2: First Looks (No Feels)

The Jeht is Cotic's most recent suspension model, debuting in late 2020. Late 2023 brings in the next generation AKA the Cotic Jeht Gen 2.

Cotic RocketMAX Gen 4 long term review

Cotic RocketMAX Gen 4 long term review

The Cotic RocketMAX Gen 4 is the brand's flagship big travel bruiser. Made-in-UK steel front triangle with 160mm of Droplink rear travel.

Cotic FlareMAX Gen 5: First Looks ‘N’ Feels

Cotic FlareMAX Gen 5: First Looks ‘N’ Feels

This Cotic FlareMAX Gen 5 is the brand's 29er short-travel ripper. Besides looking very pretty in the bluebells, what is it all about?

Radness Alert! Frameworks Racing x Cotic Steel DH Bike Collab

Radness Alert! Frameworks Racing x Cotic Steel DH Bike Collab

Cotic has designed a Reynolds 853 front triangle for World Cup DH racer (and excellent YouTube vlogger) Neko Mulally's Frameworks Racing project. Love to see it!

NBD: Yeti SB140, Orbea Wild, Transition TR11, Saracen 2023, Cotic x Never Strays Far

NBD: Yeti SB140, Orbea Wild, Transition TR11, Saracen 2023, Cotic x Never Strays Far

New Bike Day! There's been a flurry of new bikes announced: Yeti trail bike, Orbeaebike, Transition DH, Saracen '23 and Cotic colab.

142 Bike Test – The Big Short

142 Bike Test – The Big Short

Benji ponders the meaning of ‘short’ as he rags these three not-long travel bikes round his local trails. What is short travel? Too short? Short enough? Shorter than what? What…

Review: Cotic FlareMAX Gen4

Review: Cotic FlareMAX Gen4

The Cotic FlareMAX Gen4 is reviewed in Issue 142 Bike Test – The Big Short. Gen4 means fourth generation. This is the fourth iteration of Cotic’s shorter travel (125mm) full…

First Look: Our newest long term test rig is a custom Cotic BFE Max!

First Look: Our newest long term test rig is a custom Cotic BFE Max!

You’ve seen this frame before, and you’ve seen the parts hanging from it, but now it’s finally alive and ready to hit dry dusty trails. First of all, I would…

First Ride: The Gen 4 Cotic FlareMax punches way above its weight!

First Ride: The Gen 4 Cotic FlareMax punches way above its weight!

Now in its 4th incarnation, the Cotic FlareMax takes on frame updates, new build options and a ‘down country’ alter-ego. Can you believe that the first generation Cotic FlareMax is…

Cotic Solaris MAX 2020 | More Sparkles, More Bottle Bosses!

Cotic Solaris MAX 2020 | More Sparkles, More Bottle Bosses!

Cotic has revealed the latest update to the Solaris MAX, their 29er hardtail which they say can do everything from enduro to bike packing. This latest edition of the Cotic…

Cotic BFeMax Gets The Big Wheel 29in Hardcore Hardtail Treatment

Cotic BFeMax Gets The Big Wheel 29in Hardcore Hardtail Treatment

Only a week after Cotic announced that there would be no more 27.5in Cotic Soul bikes in future, it has now announced the new Cotic BFeMax . “It’s the result of…

New 4th generation Cotic Rocket launches today

New 4th generation Cotic Rocket launches today

Today, Cotic brings us the new 4th generation Cotic Rocket. Made in the UK, with the strap line ‘You’d be faster on a Rocket’, read on for the full press…

Cotic Flare Ridden And Rated – Now in 135mm Option

Cotic Flare Ridden And Rated – Now in 135mm Option

Words Daz Hall Photography Chipps First published in Singletrack Magazine issue 126 Price: £3,249.00 (as tested) From: Cotic, cotic.co.uk On a recent holiday to California, I was brutally reminded of…

Cotic Launches ‘Love It Or Your Money Back’

Cotic Launches ‘Love It Or Your Money Back’

With brands trying to figure out the best way to keep sales rolling during COVID-19 measures, Cotic has taken quite the step, and is offering a ‘ Love It Or…

Cotic CC | All that way for a pint and a bike ride? You must be mad.

Cotic CC | All that way for a pint and a bike ride? You must be mad.

What makes The Cotic Cycling Club meet ups worth a 280 mile round trip for a ride and a pint? James Vincent goes to find out what makes Cotic CC…

Video: Cotic takes us through the birth of a bike

Video: Cotic takes us through the birth of a bike

Cotic takes us on a journey from through the UK manufacturing process of its steel bike frames. As you may all be aware, Cotic Bikes is one of the UK…

New Cotic FlareMAX | First Ride Review

New Cotic FlareMAX | First Ride Review

The new Cotic FlareMAX is launched today, once again at a Cotic CC event rather than a far flung media launch with canapes and jacuzzi. Luckily for us, Cy at…

2019 Cotic BFe First Ride Review

2019 Cotic BFe First Ride Review

James Vincent grabs a first ride on the new Cotic BFe hardtail. When launching a new bike, some bike companies whisk a select group of lucky journos off to some…

Fresh Goods Friday 452: The ‘Wil is Going Home’ Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 452: The ‘Wil is Going Home’ Edition

We are sad to announce that the time has finally come to bid farewell to Wil. He washed up on Gaddings beach back in 2016 when his packraft got a…

10 More Stunning Steel Full Suspension Bikes You Cannot Ignore

10 More Stunning Steel Full Suspension Bikes You Cannot Ignore

Steel remains real in 2019 with no sign of steel full suspension bikes disappearing from the market, in fact, there could be even more on offer than ever before. 2019…

Cotic has a new full suspension bike! Say hello to the Longshot Flare

Cotic has a new full suspension bike! Say hello to the Longshot Flare

Brand new from Cotic Bikes is the completely redesigned Flare The Flare is Cotic’s 27.5in full suspension trail bike, and is now the fourth and final full suspension model from…

Singletrack Editors’ Choice Awards – Wil’s Top 4 Products Of 2018

Singletrack Editors’ Choice Awards – Wil’s Top 4 Products Of 2018

Over the last year, our writers have tested a bucketful of bikes, a barn load of clothing and gear, and attended a bookcase full of cycling events. Which of these,…

Top 10 Most Read Singletrack Reviews Of 2018, And Number 1 Isn’t an eBike

Top 10 Most Read Singletrack Reviews Of 2018, And Number 1 Isn’t an eBike

Last year was pretty full-on for reviews. We tested some of the hottest bikes on the market, both standard and e-MTB types (GASP!), we reviewed the latest clothing, accessories, brakes,…

Cotic-ing all the boxes: An inside look at the Cotic-Fiveland Bikes collaboration

Cotic-ing all the boxes: An inside look at the Cotic-Fiveland Bikes collaboration

Barney takes a trip up to that there Scotland to find out more about Cotic’s venture with fledgling Scottish framebuilders Five Land Bikes

These are the 5 UK hardtails we want to ride this winter!

These are the 5 UK hardtails we want to ride this winter!

Is it just us or do all mountain bikers pine for the love of a good hardtail come the winter months? Being able to thrash it out on a sloppy…

Chill out everyone, Fresh Goods Friday 420 is here

Chill out everyone, Fresh Goods Friday 420 is here

50% of the editorial team are on holiday. Only 50% of that 50% are enjoying themselves… Meanwhile in the office, there’s an abundance of fancy coffee and a carrot cake…

Cotic Brings Manufacturing To The UK With 2019 Cotic RocketMAX. Full Details.

Cotic Brings Manufacturing To The UK With 2019 Cotic RocketMAX. Full Details.

Cotic has done it again! Yup, a last minute email about another bike launch, but we forgive them because this is the bike many of us have been waiting for,…

The Cotic Soda – Flagship Titanium Hardtail – Returns! Longshot, but Limited

The Cotic Soda – Flagship Titanium Hardtail – Returns! Longshot, but Limited

New Cotic Soda They’re like buses, eh? New bikes… You turn your back for a minute and a load have turned up without you noticing – and now you have…

Review: Cotic FlareMAX. Is Longshot Geometry a step too far or a step in the right direction?

Review: Cotic FlareMAX. Is Longshot Geometry a step too far or a step in the right direction?

The Cotic FlareMAX 29in/27.5+ was first introduced by the Peak-district based purveyors of made out of metal bicycles, in 2016. This bike here is the second iteration of Cotic’s 120mm…

Bike Check: Richard Baybutt’s Murdered Out Longshot Cotic Rocket

Bike Check: Richard Baybutt’s Murdered Out Longshot Cotic Rocket

Richard Baybutt is Cotic’s marketing man, he’s also a wheelie machine and Megavalnche slayer, and this murdered out Longshot Cotic Rocket is his current ride of choice. Richard didn’t know…

Video: See the Cotic SolarisMAX in action!

Video: See the Cotic SolarisMAX in action!

For the past two months, I’ve been testing out the brand new SolarisMAX from Cotic Bikes. The SolarisMAX is the Peak-district based brand’s steel 29in hardtail, and it’s designed to…

Review: The latest Cotic SolarisMAX is one of the fastest hardtails we’ve tested

Review: The latest Cotic SolarisMAX is one of the fastest hardtails we’ve tested

In case you hadn’t noticed, Cotic has been on absolute fire lately. The small Peak District-based company launched a new BFe hardcore hardtail just on a year ago, which then…

26 Ain’t Dead! Cotic has just released a new BFe hardtail 🤘🤘🤘

26 Ain’t Dead! Cotic has just released a new BFe hardtail 🤘🤘🤘

Peak District-based Cotic Bikes has just released what we believe to be the only new 26in mountain bike frame launched in 2018 – the BFe26. Following in the footsteps of…

Fresh Goods Friday 399; 2 Bikes, A Fork And A Spoon!

Fresh Goods Friday 399; 2 Bikes, A Fork And A Spoon!

Don’t worry! The apocalypse has not come! Yes Nicholas Parsons missed an episode of Just A Minute, and yes we missed Fresh Goods Friday last week, but The Today Programme…

Solaris Max, MaXalami and Max Madness – It’s Fresh Goods Friday 398

Solaris Max, MaXalami and Max Madness – It’s Fresh Goods Friday 398

Good day prized readers. It is time. Time for you to sever ties with that yoga mat supplier you once made a purchase from five years ago. Time for you…

Quit Your Job! Work with pushbikes instead!

Quit Your Job! Work with pushbikes instead!

This article was originally published in Issue 117 of Singletrack Magazine. Hannah interviews five people who’ve said ‘Right! That’s it! I’m leaving to go and work with pushbikes!’ Then they’ve…

Exclusive First Look: The New Cotic Solaris Max

Exclusive First Look: The New Cotic Solaris Max

Cotic’s new Solaris MAX launches today. And it’s in stock. And we’ve ridden one. It’s always an exciting day for British mountain bikers when Cotic releases a new model. And…

The Direct Approach: How the way we buy bikes is changing

The Direct Approach: How the way we buy bikes is changing

The landscape of bicycle retail is shifting, and there are now an increasing number of companies that only sell direct to the buyers. Some of the most respected brands in…

What goes into designing a new bike? Cy of Cotic Bikes chats to us about the 2-year design process behind the new Rocket

What goes into designing a new bike? Cy of Cotic Bikes chats to us about the 2-year design process behind the new Rocket

In association with Cotic Unveiled over the weekend at the 2018 London Bike Show, the 3rd generation Rocket full suspension enduro bike is the latest model to be born from…

London Bike Show 2018 Is Go! Come by and see us!

London Bike Show 2018 Is Go! Come by and see us!

Don't miss out on all the fun of the London Bike Show

London Bike Show Exclusive; Get A First Look At Cotic’s 3rd Generation Rocket

London Bike Show Exclusive; Get A First Look At Cotic’s 3rd Generation Rocket

A new frame and revised geometry designed to help you go fast and fly high

First Look At Cotic’s Flare Max

First Look At Cotic’s Flare Max

We get a day on the brand-new Cotic FlareMAX steel full suspension bike

Cotic Move To Direct Sales Only

Cotic Move To Direct Sales Only

Rumours are flying about Cotic. We got the truth straight from them

Cotic Unveils The New Soul

Cotic Unveils The New Soul

The very latest steel frame from Cotic is a beauty

First Look: The All-New BFe From Cotic

First Look: The All-New BFe From Cotic

Cotic has completely revamped the BFe steel hardtail, so we travelled to Cotic HQ in the Peak District to get an exclusive first look