Cy Turner

Owner and bike designer

• Role: Founder, Managing Director, Technical Director, Mechanical Designer, Financial Director, Head of Marketing, QC, HR, Mechanic, Shipping Clerk, All My Fault (In a nutshell I run the company, design the bikes and do anything that isn't covered by the rest of the team)
• First bike: Raleigh Boxer
• Current bike:Probably a development bike, but RocketMAX and Cascade mostly
• Favourite trail: Local - Branchline in Spring time when it's been dry for a couple of weeks. Worldwide - Loam Wolf, Golfie
• Dream trail: Any trail that gives you 'that' feeling. You know the one
• Best mtb invention in the last 10 years: Longshot Geometry. Proper long reach, short stem geometry transforms your confidence in a bike.
• Pick two cyclists from history to be your parents: Laurent Fignon and Tracy Moseley
• If you could be anyone for a day who would it be: Matt Bellamy, Lead Singer of Muse
• If you could do another job for a day what would it be: Designer at Lego
• What would be the title of your autobiography: Largely by Accident
• One thing people probably won't know about you: I was the singer in a rock band when I was at school
• What would you be doing if you didn't work for Cotic? Probably still designing bits of trains, or cars or planes. I'm a Mechanical Engineer by training and at heart. I like designing things