Cotic Announces New Flare Steel Trail Bike
PRESS RELEASE: Cotic
The Flare combines the DNA of our Rocket enduro bike with the light, agile, subtle feel of our legendary Soul to bring a fun, fast, endlessly addictive ride into your life.
The Flare runs 27.5" wheels with up to 2.6" tyres, 140mm forks, and 125mm rear travel. At heart the Flare is a technical trail tearaway. Lighter and easier to move around than our MAX 29er bikes, with more compact dimensions than our enduro focused Rocket, and droplink suspension brings more capability than our hardtails.
The Flare excels in tight, close quarters technical trail work. It ducks and weaves, pops and wheelies, scrabbles and clambers in and out of the tightest spaces. It sports our radical Longshot geometry, flows like water down singletrack, climbs beautifully, yet exudes confidence and pin sharp accuracy exactly when you need it in bigger or steeper terrain.
As with all Cotic bikes, the frames' steel construction is compliant and naturally ground moulding. The Flare uses Reynolds 853 super strong steel for it's made-in-the-UK front triangle. This includes our custom ride tuned Ovalform top tube which helps to deliver sublime trail damping and that signature Cotic feel; lively and fun, yet stable and controlled.
As a droplink bike, it shares all of the clever features we include across the range including the integrated One Up top guide and double duty seatstay pivot / brake bolt.
All the product information is over on the product page.
Frame pricing starts at £1749 / approx $1899 / approx EUR1929 with a Hope seatclamp, delivery and the X-Fusion O2 RCX shock. DB Air IL is available for £1999 / $2165 / EUR2199. Bikes start at £2999 / $3249 / EUR 3299 for the Silver build, going up to £6099 / $6600 / EUR6710 for the full dreamer Platinum X01 Eagle eeWing build. We have limited stock available now, with more in build due for early May. The Flare, as with all our products, is now available with free shipping to Europe, USA and Canada as well as the UK. Complete bikes are available worldwide, assembled by us - your bike built for you - right here in the Peak District of the UK.
If you know you want a Flare, you can order here and if it's just a frame you will get it by the next weekend:
The Flare is going straight into demo, so people can get on a bike to try from this weekend in the UK. You can catch up with the dates for demos over on www.cotic.co.uk/demo.
Hope you like it. Let us know what you think in the comments. We'll be around to answer any questions.
Cheers,
Cy Turner
Founder and Director
Cotic Bikes
www.cotic.co.uk
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How bought it, @mikelevy
What if a bike was made with an expensive material, but had poor geometry and, as a result, rode poorly? What a particular carbon bike was known to crack more often than most and getting replacement parts took months, if it happens at all? Would these carbon bikes be "worth" more?
Of course there exist carbon bikes with great geometry and durability; I'm just pointing out there's more to the value equation than the material used.
Cotic bikes are lovely and the company is, too. If the only advantage of a carbon frame is a pound less weight, that's not enough to offset all the positives of Cotic products and Cotic people.
Where do I find a balanced report on the pros and cons? I'm strangely drawn to this as it seems to tick boxes for me, but price counts so I'd hate to spend that and discover it doesn't work for me (if I can work out how to pay for it - but that is the case with any new bike irrespective of price).
Ta.