Chesterfield Showroom and HQ bike demos

Showroom opening times:

Wednesday — Friday (10am — 4pm)

+ Saturday 11th October (9am — 4pm)

Office Hours

Catch us for emails and phone calls on the following hours:

Monday — Friday (9am — 5pm UK time)

Call us on:

07970 853 531

The August sale on Escapade Bronze SRAM Apex1 bikes we so successful we sold out! As you clearly like a deal on an Escapade, we now have a September Sale for you.

Buy an Escapade Silver GRX 1x11 Bike in for the rest of September and get 25% off. These are normally £2,349, but you get the GRX 1x11 bike for just £1,749.00 (UK) for our amazing gravel bike. Any size or colour, but this spec, and get a chunk off.

Order yours : Escapade Silver 1x Build

It's official! The Cotic Rocket ebike is a production reality. After shipping the first frames/drive system packages to customers last week, this morning we had a very special Factory Collection: Gwyn collected is Rocket. It's the first customer bike to be handed over, and it's so exciting. It was an absolute pleasure to set the bike up for him.

Gwyn's bike is Crimson Matte, a Gold Trail build with the 150mm fork, and he sent in some Chromag bars and stem and SDG saddle and grips for us to fit. He upgraded his cranks to 5Dev 155mm to grab a touch more clearance. The Rocket is already designed around 160mm, but as this is our C1 (smallest) size, he wanted something a little shorter. Very nice they are too!

Rocket's are now in production, and we have a handful of frames ready made, waiting for paint. Why waiting for paint? Because every single Rocket is A La Carte of course! Your choice of colour included in the price. If it's not in stock, manufacturing time is about 8 weeks right now.

Frame/drive system to build up yourself from your parts start at £5,999. Bronze build bikes start from £7,599.

Order yours : Order Your Rocket

Its almost that time of year again, Ard Rock 2025 is just around the corner.

Join us at the biggest and best MTB event of the year in the Yorkshire Dales Friday 25th - Sunday 27th July.

Demo Bikes at Ard Rock.

We'll have our demo fleet on hand for you to test ride. There are two dedicated demo stages, perfect for showcasing what our mountain bikes can do on proper trails. You can only ride these trails one weekend a year, why not ride them on a fantastic steel bike??

You don't need to have an entry to any of the races to attend Ard Rock, if you want to come to demo a bike and check out the massive expo area, you can park for the day. There is also delicious food, craft beers, live music and many heckling opportunities trackside.

Demo bikes are available from 9:30 - 16:00 all three days from the Cotic stand.

If you'd like to test ride a bike at Ard Rock, email demo@cotic.co.uk or call us on 07970 853531 to book on.

Test riding a Cotic is totally free, you just need to bring your preferred pedals and leave some photo ID and a credit card or car key with us.

Ard Rock CC Ride - Friday 25th July.

Already have a Cotic? Join us for a ride at the best MTB Festival!

CC MTB ride from the Cotic stand on Friday 25th July. We absolutely love the riding in Swaledale, and the annual Ard Rock CC Ride is always a highlight of the summer. Wheels rolling at 18:30.

As always the pace will be sociable, we'll adjust the route according to conditions on the day, but you can expect some great local singletrack, technical sections, speed and some challenging climbs. We'll ride for around 2 hours then head back to the stand for beer. Any Cotic MTB will be spot on for the ride

Drop us a quick email to demo@cotic.co.uk to let us know you're coming, or if you have any questions about the ride.

Fair warning now, pump your tyres up harder than you would for riding in the woods! Swaledale is notorious for punctures.

Hopefully we'll see you at Ard Rock, please do drop by our stand over the weekend to say hello if you'll be there.

Here's hoping for a nice dry one!

Sam.

Logan at bikepacking.com has just published his long term review of our latest BFe hardtail, and it's a belter!

It's a wonderfully detailed review, so grab a brew and see what he has to say.

He has ridden everything from technical singletrack to doing a "bikefishing" trip loaded up with rods and sleeping kit and beer!

Nicest of all for us is that is really liked it, saying the "tubeset feels sublime" and has "Superb geometry".

Logan has form with our bikes. He liked the SolarisMAX he tested in 2020 so much he bought it! Whilst steel hardtails are clearly his jam, he has tested a bunch of other brands bikes that purport to do things similar to Cotic, and from what he has written here, he is a bigger fan of the way Cotic do it that the others.

I also love that he can see the value in our heritage, and how long we have been developing and refining our bikes. Mainly I am so happy that his defining conclusion here is that despite it's 'Burly Iron' tag, the ride feel of the BFe is what really impressed him. It's always about the ride feel with Cotic. Accept no substitutes!

If you like what you read, then we have stock of all sizes ready to go right now. And if the BFe is a little bit much bike for your riding needs, the Solaris will be perfect.

Frames can with with you within a couple of days. Bikes are about a week depending on spec.

BFe Details here

These days we have a pretty extensive range of bikes to choose from, but with choice sometimes comes doubt, especially if you are new to Cotic and not too sure where your riding might best fit with our range of bikes. To help you out, we have designed a short quiz to find out a bit about you and your riding, and once we know that, we email you a personalised recommendation for which Cotic bikes will be perfect for you.

It's easy, quick and a bit of fun. Let's start the conversation!

Sometimes it doesn't always go to plan. Darren and I set off with hours in hand to get down to Surrey for last week's demo trip. The idea was to get checked into the hotel in plenty of time, grab a bite to eat, kit up and head over to Peaslake with spare time for the usual car park faff. However the M1 and M25 conspired against us. Barely 30 minutes down the road from Chesterfield we hit traffic, and what should have been a 3.5 hour drive turned into a 7 hour mission through crawling Friday traffic.

We arrived mere minutes before we'd planned to hit the trails, to an eager group of Cotic owners in the sweltering Peaslake car park, keen for a Cotic CC ride. There is nothing like a bike ride to take all your troubles away though, and as soon as we began spinning through the village and up the first climb, we'd all but forgotten our full day behind the wheel.

The UK has been experiencing its driest spring for decades, and while it feels like droughts and hose pipe bans may be featuring in our near future, it has meant even worst draining trails are buff dry and rolling fast. Most of the group had very little experience of the trails around Peaslake, so we hit a classic first. Yoghurt Pots is notorious for holding water, its roller-coaster vibe of dips and crests means it holds water pretty much all the time in its low spots, giving the trail its name as it usually has gloopy, stagnant puddles in several places. Not today though, even the deepest craters on this Surrey classic were dry, bringing speed and grins to everyone.

Two more of the Surrey Hill's greatest hits followed, Telegraph Row and the crowd pleaser that is Barry Knows Best. Despite the thousands of tyres that roll down these trails every year, they hold up surprisingly well and still put a smile on every riders face, especially when you're hanging onto the back wheel of the rider in front on such a glorious summer evening.

For the second part of the ride, we crossed back over the road and up a frankly disgusting climb. Doing most of my riding around Sheffield and the Peak District I'm used to pedalling up steep and technical trails, so for a southern Cotic CC ride I had to include something to break up the nice cruise-y fire road spins and remind myself of home! The downside of the hard way up is heart rates hitting the roof and conversation stopping; the upside is that height is very quickly re-gained, and we were soon flowing down more singletrack gems and chatting away again.

Next up was Captain Clunk, one of my favourite trails in the area with its fast berms, floaty jumps and a sting in its tail with a steep and loose finish. Its always fun to push the limits of my SolarisMAX with it's more XC focussed build, it constantly amazes me what I can get away with on a 120mm hardtail with lightweight parts. The last trail was John The Baptist, a long contour hugging ribbon of singletrack which has had a few features added in recent years, including a couple of jumps which are perfectly roll-able. However, with the undergrowth somewhat obscuring my line of sight, the first one sprung up on me a bit sooner than I expected, while I was going too quick to roll them. A last minute pull and I sailed over it to a smooth landing, pleasantly surprised! The exact same thing happened just a few seconds later, maybe I hadn't remembered the trail as well as I'd thought! Thankfully the dry conditions and fast rolling Maxxis Forekaster/Rekon tyre combo meant I had plenty of speed, and the local trail builder's spade work flattered my technique, making me feel like a hero.

The trail dropped us right back in the car park, which we promptly rode straight through and sat outside the pub. Low strength hazy pale ales in the dying light of the longest day, a pretty much perfect way to end a ride.

Sam.