Reader’s Ride: Pietruszka’s Cotic Soul 27.5

Reader’s Ride: Pietruszka’s Cotic Soul 27.5

Kicking off the week is a perfectly messy steel machine from 2018

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.…

Readers’ Rides: Steel Special

Readers’ Rides: Steel Special

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Review: Cotic FlareMAX Gen4

Review: Cotic FlareMAX Gen4

The Cotic FlareMAX Gen4 is reviewed in Issue 142 Bike Test – The Big Short. Gen4…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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……

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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