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@aribr: Yes. Yes it is ;-)

There is likely to be a small increase due to handling fees because even the 0% stuff has to now be presented at customs and cleared, but you certainly won't get any tariffs applied.

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We now have our new trading situation in place: https://www.cotic.co.uk/international/ Top and bottom of it is that all complete bikes and any frames that have come from Taiwan attract duty. The UK made model lines have enough UK content to qualify for 0% tariff.

When I (Cy) did a bunch of testing with different bar heights and widths a couple of years ago, range of movement was a big factor in width and height choice. Long, slack bikes in particular favour a lot of angle on them to get them to corner well, and Troy and Danny both get a lot of angle on their bikes when they corner. What I found was that even at 6ft 3in, really wide (800mm plus measured across the ends of the grips, so about +10-15mm on the bar itself) if the bar was a little low, I ran out of reach to get the end of the inside grip low enough when getting a lot of angle on the bike. My arm would fully extend, then over weight the inside grip and I would steer out of the corner! Can be helped with higher bars so you don't run out of arm extension when leaning the bike over, but only up to a point, and shorter guys will need lower bars naturally, and will have shorter arms, so will need narrower bars simply to be able to reach the inside grip without locking out their elbow at the insane lean angles they get to.

Unfortunately we couldn't guarantee the quality of the fade finish with water transfers that they use in Taiwan. The Launch Edition graphics are paint, which is another reason why we're only doing a few of them! You're right though, it does look great.