£1,929 Cotic’s aggro hardtail gets fully stretched for full-gas riding
The frame
Cotic have largely kept to their well proven recipe. The down tube is ultra-tough yet light Reynolds 853 steel while the rest of the frame is Cotic’s custom ‘FM’ double-butted steel. Wide-splayed, brace-free chain stays mean there’s loads of mud clearance for 27.5x2.6in or 26x3in tyres. Neat cylindrical bolt-through 142x12mm Syntace dropouts include a pinch-bolt secured replaceable mech hanger, which is rare for steel. Cables are bolt clamped, and because there’s just a single set of bottle cage bosses (on the down tube), you can slam the seatpost. There are ISCG chain device tabs on the threaded bottom bracket (BB) shell too.
This story is from the November 2017 edition of Mountain Biking UK.
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