Despite the weather, Super Saturday last weekend was our busiest yet.

If you came along, thank you. Thank you for riding with us in the mud and rain, and for your patience whilst waiting to chat after the rides. The Solaris, FlareMAX and Rockets were all going constantly, and we even had to put on a third ride at 1330 because of how many of you came along. It took Will and I most of the morning to clean everything up afterwards. Fifteen minutes just to wash the mugs. That many!

Because we want to spend proper time with each of you talking through your next bike, it did back up a bit, and a couple of you had to leave before we could get to you. I'm really sorry about that. If you do come along to ride and chat, maybe give yourself an extra hour to hang out, drink coffee and flick through magazines whilst we work our way round.

One of the highlights was five Factory Collections in the same day. It added to the beautiful chaos, but seeing people buzzing off their brand new bikes - and watching others see that process for themselves - was really something. Bikes and smiles. Can't beat it.

If you like the sound of this and are thinking about a new Cotic, the next Super Saturday is 21st March. Drop us an email to book on. This will be out last Super Saturday for a few months, so get on it!

Our next two Super Saturday Demo and Showroom days are happening

28th February

21st March

Want to try out a Cotic? Paul is leading demo rides at 10 and 12. Email demo@cotic.co.uk to book on.

Not got time to ride, but want to see the latest Cotics in real life? Showroom is open 0930-1600.

We have the best coffee, Yorkshire Tea, biscuits, mince pies and an all round nice day.

Less than 2 weeks until our next Super Saturday on 6th December.

Want to try out a Cotic? Paul is leading demo rides at 10 and 12. Email to book on.

Got a Cotic mountain bike and want to go for a ride with Cy? CC Ride at 1030 for a couple hours on our local trails.

Not got time to ride, but want to see the latest Cotics in real life? Showroom is open 0930-1600.

We have the best coffee, Yorkshire Tea, biscuits, mince pies and an all round nice day.

Join us in the Cotic showroom Saturday 7th December for the Cotic Christmas Market.

All the market stalls are inside, so come in to the warm and dry and see us and all our lovely guest stall holders, before your ride, after your ride, or if not riding at all.

We open our doors one Saturday a month here at Cotic HQ, and our festive market day this Saturday is the last one of the year. There will be:

If you'd like to test ride any of our bikes, get in touch to book on.

Give us a shout if you'd like to join either the CC or Women of Steel rides, they're free, but we like to have an idea of numbers.

Please do come along and get some Christmas shopping done for the bike rider/s in your life. All the brands coming are people we know and work with, who make a range of lovely parts and accessories at various price points from stocking fillers to big gifts.

If you're super organised and have done all your shopping already, then join us for a social spin, festive food, drink and cheer.

Sam.

Don't forget we have Super Saturday coming up this weekend on the 26th, and we will be showing off the new Rocket ebike. After the CC Gravel ride in the morning, Cy is doing an Ask Me Anything at 2.30pm in the showroom, so if you want to come and find out anything Cotic related, drop by and get involved.

Cotic HQ is here: Google Maps Cotic

Unit 1B, Broom Business Park, Chesterfield, S41 9QG

Pop by beforehand to grab some lunch from the food truck, and a coffee from us. See you Saturday?

Next Cotic Super Saturday is happening on 26th October. Open from 0930-1630 bringing great bikes and good vibes.

• Led Demo Rides with Sam, Paul or Darren 1000 and 1200
• Open Demos in the afternoon
• Cotic CC Owners Social Gravel ride led by Cy at 1015
• Cotic Women of Steel social ride with Kelly-Jayne at 1030
• Showroom open all day
• Ask Me Anything Q and A with Cy in the afternoon 1430
• Food Truck bringing pies and stew 1300-1500
• All washed down with complimentary (amazing) coffee and tea all day

Our entire demo fleet is at your disposal. Come and try out Escapades and Cascades, Solaris, FlareMAX, Jeht or RocketMAX. We have a couple of sizes of all models and we can make things work for you.

We will be running two led demo rides in the morning and open demo in the afternoon.

1000 - Demo Ride 1

1200 - Demo Ride 2

The led rides will be on our local 45-55 min local loop, which is perfect for checking sizing and getting a feel for the bikes. It's also short enough that if you want to try a couple of different sizes or bikes, you will be able to do that without feeling completely done in afterwards! Sam or Darren will take you around the loop, so there will be no worries about navigation, and they will have a few tools and shock pumps on hand to make adjustments whilst you're out too.

1400 onwards - Open Demo

After lunch, from 1400 onwards is Open Demo. So, if you can't make the morning, or if you still want to try something after riding earlier in the day, you can still take a bike out for a ride. Use any of our loops on a first come, first served basis. You can take a bike out for a longer ride, or just try something else on the short loop. You'll need to be self-sufficient for these, and get yourself around the demo loops. We have maps and GPX files for you.

If you are on demo, a few things to remember:

• Please arrive at least 30 mins before your ride so we can sign you in and set you up on your demo bike.
• Bring photo ID and some collateral for us to hold against each borrowed bike.
• Bring pedals if you use clips, or bring your favourite flats if you prefer. We can swap saddles too if you want to take that variable out as well.

Please email demo@cotic.co.ukto book your free demo ride.

Ride Start 1015

September's Super Saturday was really busy and fun. We definitely got lucky with the weather. Whilst we're still planning to ride at the upcoming October Super Saturday, the plans are flexible in case of the British Autumn turning up in full effect.

After doing a couple of MTB rides for the CC Owners recently, we've decided to change it up for this month and do a CC Gravel ride this time. I'll be leading it, riding my Cascade. It's easy going trails, singletrack and quiet lanes. It's loops within loops fairly close to HQ so we have bail out options if the weather's not co-operating, but regardless we will aim to ride for at least a couple of hours. It's open to all Cotic owners, but we'd suggest Escapades, Cascades and hardtails.

The offroad sections need some tooth to the tyre, so if you're on an Escapade we wouldn't recommend it if you have something like the Conti SC2 tyres or something similarly road biased. Anything more gravel orientated, like the Raddlers or Byways or Gravel Kings will be peachy. If you want to join us but don't have appropriate tyres, drop us an email. We can sell you some gravel tyres and set them up on the day so long as you arrive in plenty of time.

We will be rolling out on the CC Ride at 1015. Doors open at 0930 so make sure to arrive in plenty of time to get kitted up and have a coffee.

Ride Start 1030

Kelly-Jayne will be leading a Women Of Steel Social Gravel Ride. About 19km, and it's about getting involved, meeting people and being back in time for the food truck!

If you want to get more involved with Women Of Steel, email wos@cotic.co.uk and we'll send you the link for you to join the Whatsapp Community.

Komoot ride info is here: Women Of Steel Super Saturday Social Ride

To make the most of the event feel, we will have our new coffee machine up and running, the tea urn steaming, and we will be brewing free beverages all day. We will have some snacks and cakes around as well and a few beers on hand for later in the day if you want to keep things going into the afternoon.

At lunch time our local food truck will be around between 1 and 3 bringing pies and stew. We've tried both and they're amazing! There will be dairy free and veggie options.

1430 onwards

In light of the potential for 'weather', this October's Super Saturday will introduce an event element to the day in the showroom.

This month we're going to be kicking things off with a freestyle Ask Me Anything Q and A with Cy from 1430 onwards. Format is pretty easy: Cy stands at the front, you ask the questions! It will last as long as people are asking things, and you don't have to have done any of the rides or any other part of the day to get involved. Just come down and join us.

The showroom will be open, so you can have a look at the bikes, chat options, sit down with us and make an order, or do Factory Collection if you have a new Cotic on the way.

We have so many of our amazing photos from down the years on the walls now, it's worth dropping by just to have a look at those!

The Be More Cotic sale parts will be available at even lower prices on the day, and we will have all our remaining T-shirt stock on sale for £10 each too.

Cotic Bikes, Unit 1B Broom Business Park, Bridge Way, Chesterfield, S41 9QG

We will be open from 0930 to 1630 bringing festival vibes to our little corner of Chesterfield. Come and ride bikes, try out bikes, ride, hang out, drink coffee, beer, eat nice food, ask Cy tricky questions.

Can't wait to see you. This is going to be so fun.

Our first Super Saturday in August was such a vibe. It's back again on Saturday 14th September, and will be a jam packed day of Cotic goodness:

• Led Demo Rides
• Open Demos in the afternoon
• Cotic CC owners social ride
• Cotic Women of Steel social ride
• Coffee
• Food truck
• Showroom open all day

Our entire demo fleet is at your disposal. Come and try out Escapades and Cascades, Solaris, FlareMAX, Jeht or RocketMAX. We have a couple of sizes of all models and we can make things work for you.

We will be running two led demo rides in the morning and open demo in the afternoon.

1000 - Demo Ride 1

1200 - Demo Ride 2

The led rides will be on our local 45-55 min local loop, which is perfect for checking sizing and getting a feel for the bikes. It's also short enough that if you want to try a couple of different sizes or bikes, you will be able to do that without feeling completely done in afterwards! Sam or Darren will take you around the loop, so there will be no worries about navigation, and they will have a few tools and shock pumps on hand to make adjustments whilst you're out too.

1400 onwards - Open Demo

After lunch, from 1400 onwards is Open Demo. So, if you can't make the morning, or if you still want to try something after riding earlier in the day, you can still take a bike out for a ride. Use any of our loops on a first come, first served basis. You can take a bike out for a longer ride, or just try something else on the short loop. You'll need to be self-sufficient for these, and get yourself around the demo loops. We have maps and GPX files for you.

If you are on demo, a few things to remember:

• Please arrive at least 30 mins before your ride so we can sign you in and set you up on your demo bike.
• Bring photo ID and some collateral for us to hold against each borrowed bike.
• Bring pedals if you use clips, or bring your favourite flats if you prefer. We can swap saddles too if you want to take that variable out as well.

Please email demo@cotic.co.ukto book your free demo ride.

Ride Start 1015

Cotic CC MTB ride will be out to Cy's local riding area Blacka Moor near Sheffield. We will take in the famous Devils Elbow descent before making our way back to HQ. It's a little over 37km and will take us about 3.5 hours. There's some good trails, but plenty of pedalling too! It's not a guided or supported ride, so you need to bring you own tools, spares, clothing and food. There's no options for food en route, so bring snacks and plenty of water. Food truck will be waiting for us when upon our return!

Route info here: CC MTB Blacka Moor Ride

Ride Start 1030

Kelly-Jayne will be leading a Women Of Steel Social Gravel Ride. About 19km, and it's about getting involved, meeting people and being back in time for the food truck!

If you want to get more involved with Women Of Steel, email wos@cotic.co.uk and we'll send you the link for you to join the Whatsapp Community.

Komoot ride info is here: Women Of Steel September Social Ride

To make the most of the event feel, we will have our new coffee machine up and running, the tea urn steaming, and we will be brewing free beverages all day. We will have some snacks and cakes around as well and a few beers on hand for later in the day if you want to keep things going into the afternoon.

At lunch time our local food truck will be around between 1 and 3, serving chicken fajita, bean chilli (vegan), BBQ pulled pork and all sorts of hearty fayre to fuel you up. Comes highly recommended by Darren and Mat.

The showroom will be open, so you can have a look at the bikes, chat options, sit down with us and make an order, or do Factory Collection if you have a new Cotic on the way.

We have so many of our amazing photos from down the years on the walls now, it's worth dropping by just to have a look at those!

The Be More Cotic sale parts will be available at even lower prices on the day, and we will have all our remaining T-shirt stock on sale for £10 each too.

Cotic Bikes, Unit 1B Broom Business Park, Bridge Way, Chesterfield, S41 9QG

We will be open from 0930 to 1700 bringing festival vibes to our little corner of Chesterfield. Come and ride bikes, try out bikes, ride, hang out, drink coffee, beer, eat nice food.

Can't wait to see you. This is going to be so fun.

From this week, instead of our regular Saturday opening, we are moving to monthly Super Saturday Events at HQ. After having so much fun making a day of it for the Abby Africa Talk, we are making these one day events much more of a thing than our previous Saturday openings were. There will be more of us around, and that means more riding and more things to do!

Our first of these is on Saturday 17th August, and will be a jam packed day of Cotic goodness:

• Led Demo Rides
• Open Demos in the afternoon
• Cotic CC owners social ride
• Cotic Women of Steel social ride
• Coffee
• Food truck
• Showroom open all day

Our entire demo fleet is at your disposal. Come and try out Escapades and Cascades, Solaris, FlareMAX, Jeht or RocketMAX. We have a couple of sizes of all models and we can make things work for you.

We will be running two led demo rides in the morning and open demo in the afternoon.

1000 - Demo Ride 1

1200 - Demo Ride 2

The led rides will be on our local 45-55 min local loop, which is perfect for checking sizing and getting a feel for the bikes. It's also short enough that if you want to try a couple of different sizes or bikes, you will be able to do that without feeling completely done in afterwards! Sam or Darren will take you around the loop, so there will be no worries about navigation, and they will have a few tools and shock pumps on hand to make adjustments whilst you're out too.

1400 onwards - Open Demo

After lunch, from 1400 onwards is Open Demo. So, if you can't make the morning, or if you still want to try something after riding earlier in the day, you can still take a bike out for a ride. Use any of our loops on a first come, first served basis. You can take a bike out for a longer ride, or just try something else on the short loop. You'll need to be self-sufficient for these, and get yourself around the demo loops. We have maps and GPX files for you.

If you are on demo, a few things to remember:

• Please arrive at least 30 mins before your ride so we can sign you in and set you up on your demo bike.
• Bring photo ID and some collateral for us to hold against each borrowed bike.
• Bring pedals if you use clips, or bring your favourite flats if you prefer. We can swap saddles too if you want to take that variable out as well.

Please email demo@cotic.co.ukto book your free demo ride.

At 1015 we will be rolling out on a CC owners ride. If you own a Cotic, you're in! Cy will be leading this ride.

Rather than sticking to the local as with previous HQ rides, we will be striking out a bit further into the Peak District, going out to Curbar Gap and along the gritstone edges above our old base at Calver. According to Komoot it's 36km, 470m climbing and about 3 hours.

It's a route Cy knows really well, and he has ridden every centimetre many times before. There's some bridleway trails, linking sections of quiet roads, and the edges themselves are well surfaced, but with rocky outcrops along the way.

It's definitely more of a mountain bike ride, and too much for an Escapade. If you have a Cascade it will be fine for 90% of the loop, but be prepared to walk or scoot a few rocky sections up on the edges. Any Cotic MTB will happily get around the ride. It's much more XC, look-at-the-view, chat with some nice people kind of ride than anything gnar, but there are definitely some tech options and rocky bits along the edges to keep thing interesting if you want to challenge yourself.

The proposed loop is here: Cotic CC Edges Ride

If you're joining us for the CC Ride, email demo@cotic.co.ukto book your and let us know.

There will be a Women Of Steel group ride on our longer local demo loop. It will be no more than 2 hours, 20km, 340m climbing, sociable pace, no one left behind. Gravel bikes and MTB all welcome. Nice quiet trails and lanes, enjoy the views, have a natter.

Kelly-Jayne will be leading this one. You don't need to own a Cotic to get involved, and we would love to see you.

The route is here: Cotic Long Local Demo Loop

If you're keen, email wos@cotic.co.uk to register.

To make the most of the event feel, we will have our new coffee machine up and running, the tea urn steaming, and we will be brewing free beverages all day. We will have some snacks and cakes around as well and a few beers on hand for later in the day if you want to keep things going into the afternoon.

At lunch time our local food truck will be around between 1 and 3, serving chicken fajita, bean chilli (vegan), BBQ pulled pork and all sorts of hearty fayre to fuel you up. Comes highly recommended by Darren and Mat.

The showroom will be open, so you can have a look at the bikes, chat options, sit down with us and make an order, or do Factory Collection if you have a new Cotic on the way.

We have so many of our amazing photos from down the years on the walls now, it's worth dropping by just to have a look at those!

The Be More Cotic sale parts will be available at even lower prices on the day, and we will have all our remaining T-shirt stock on sale for £10 each too.

Cotic Bikes, Unit 1B Broom Business Park, Bridge Way, Chesterfield, S41 9QG

We will be open from 0930 to 1700 bringing festival vibes to our little corner of Chesterfield. Come and ride bikes, try out bikes, ride, hang out, drink coffee, beer, eat nice food.

Can't wait to see you. This is going to be so fun.

It's been a busy few weeks with events for us recently, and we wanted to share a bit about them. Mainly because they were great fun, and we'd love for you to come to future ones.

A couple of weeks ago, we had Abby over to talk us through her African adventure aboard her trusty Cascade. We decided to make a day of it, so we had a group ride on our local in the afternoon, fabulous pizza from Pream Pizza in the sunshine, followed by Abby's incredible slideshow. It was such a fun thing to do, and great to be able to use our Showroom space to do a special thing. We even had Lorraine come from Dublin for the event, and folded it into a Factory Collection of her beautiful new RocketMAX. She joined us for the ride for the maiden voyage.

Our semi-regular HQ CC rides start and finish here, so whilst we can't promise top notch pizza every time, we can promise mint trails, sociable pace, demo rides and great coffee.

In the middle of June we headed to Peebles for Tweedlove Festival. Despite the distinctly 'British' weather of heavy rain a lot of the weekend, the stoke was high and the love for Cotic was clearly in evidence. It's so nice to go to these big events and get such warm feeling from people. Thank you if you were one of them.

The demo was hectic, and we had plenty of people out. The biblical conditions clearly didn't stop the bikes from shining either, as we've picked up a fair few orders this week from people loving the Cotic ride. The Solaris in particularly barely stood still all weekend. Our Mat proved it's incredible handling and versatility by racing the arena cyclocross on it on Saturday night, then taking it up the Golfie on Sunday and getting a hot lap of Wardell Way in. On a SID equipped hardtail running XC wheels! That's some breadth of ability.

Back in May, Brand Ambassador Gareth from A Line Coaching ran a women's only coaching evening up at Greno for our Women Of Steel riding group.

It was a really fun evening and lots was learned all round. The Women Of Steel group is not just for Cotic owners, it's for any women riders to get involved and ride together.

The events continue on this weekend, with our Forest Of Dean Demo Tour rolling into Gloucestershire on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th July. Email demo@cotic.co.uk to book your free demo.

After that we are Ard Rock Enduro on the last weekend of July, where you can also book a demo with us. It's like Glastonbury for mountain biking. You really should come along! We'll have a Cotic CC owners ride as well.

Later in August we're back in the Tweed Valley for our own Demo Tour event at the Glentress Hotel. This was super popular last year, and it's a great location. Again, email to book, or hit the DEMO tab for all our contact details.

Whilst we were cowering inside against the wettest winter in years, our Ambassador Abby Popplestone (@abby_popplestone) was on the adventure of a lifetime, riding her Cotic Cascade across Africa. It was an incredible trip, and now she’s back, we wanted to celebrate her journey and let her tell the story.

On Friday 7th June 2024 we are having an Abby’s African Adventure day here at Cotic HQ in Chesterfield.

It starts with a late afternoon gravel ride on our local, for a nice, sociable 15-20km or so (around 1.5-2hrs) on our local byways and lanes with Abby and some of us from Cotic. Any gravel bike or XC mountain bike will be suitable.

Once back from the ride around 5ish, we’ll have pizzas for tea and a few beers or ciders laid on as well.

At 7pm we’ll head into the Cotic Showroom and Abby will talk us through a slideshow of her incredible photos of her ride, with a Q and A afterwards. This will be wrapped up 8.30-9pm, but if it’s a nice evening we’ll probably hang out for a while for another couple of drinks and chat.

This is open to anyone, not just Cotic owners. If you want to hear Abby’s story, come for a nice ride and eat some good pizza, you’re more than welcome.

The full do, including ride, pizza, drink and talk is £15. If you can't make the afternoon ride and pizza, then you can get a ticket for the talk and Q and A only for £5.

There are just 30 tickets for this event. Sound good?

Where?

Cotic HQ is here...
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Address is:

Cotic Bikes
1B Broom Business Park
Bridge Way
Chesterfield
S41 9QG

Phone number is 07970 853 531.

We have parking on site for about 20 cars, and on the estate roads round and about too.

It's about a 10 minute ride for Chesterfield train station.

When?

Friday 7th June 2024. The ride rolls out at 3pm, so if you’re riding, please aim to arrive by 2.30pm latest so we can roll out on time. It’s not a supported ride, and we aren’t qualified guides, we’re just showing you around our local trails. Bring spares, water, clothing and food as appropriate for riding for a couple of hours.

If you can’t make the ride, pizzas will be from around 5.30pm, talk starts at 7pm, and will be wrapped up 9ish.

Demo?

We have the Cotic demo fleet available, so if you’d like to demo, you’re more than welcome. Please book in by emailing demo@cotic.co.uk with the bike and size you would like to try.

If you would like to demo, but would prefer to ride your own bike on the group ride, that works too! The Cotic Showroom will be open from 10am so you can go for a spin on our 45min demo loop earlier in the day if you would prefer. If you want to make a day of it anyway, pop in for a coffee and you can head out on the demo loop before the event starts. We’d be happy to see you.

This is going to be fun!