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.

Here are the first pictures of the 2026 Limestone Gloss Solaris with two of the new build kits - Gold XT Di2 Compact, and Gold Eagle.

Gold XT Di2 Compact uses the new 9-45 cassette, 28t chainring and short cage mech to give the same range of gears as a usual sized drivetrain, but with much more ground clearance and less bulky rear mech.

Gold Eagle introduces SRAM's new Eagle 90 Tranmission drivetrain to the Solaris. The Gold Eagle bike is sized C2 and is now our demo bike, so come and see it for real at HQ, or book a test ride if you're around 5ft 8in tall.

Last week we asked for your questions for Cy, on our email newsletter, and on our social media channels. We got over 50 questions! So, Cy sat down last Friday and answered them all. If you want to know what's it's been like to run a small brand through the recent industry turmoil, steel tube nerding, ebike motor power thoughts, favourite bike, favourite car, favourite biscuit(!), it's all in there. Enjoy!

Today we launch the Cascade Gen2, an update on our genre-defying drop bar adventure bike we pioneered in January 2022.

Cascade is our drop bar adventurer. Mountain bike DNA crossed with drop bar versatility give it so many potential uses and luggage options.

Reynolds 853 brings fantastic durability along with legendary Cotic ride feel, and because it's a Cotic you know the handling will be superb.

I have found mine to be a fantastic foil for my droplink mountain bike. The rigid fork and drop bars reset my expectations in terms of what type of terrain I can have a go at when I ride it, but it's made trails that feel overly tame on my mountain bike feel really fun again. Whilst it's got the chops to cross continents, it's an amazing ride-from-the-door bike because it makes your local trails really fun. And I do mean fun, not "I might die if I don't hold on tight" that you can get when riding offroad on more conventional gravel bikes. Cascade has great offroad handling and ability, so you can really enjoy those snippets of singletrack and gaps between the fences. Choose some fast rolling tyres and it's entirely civilised riding along back roads as well. I'm a big fan.

On the flipside of that, we have customers coming from a more road background who simply cannot believe what they can get away with offroad on a Cascade. It has the Cotic mountain bike DNA shot through it, and we often joke that despite its versatility, the Cascade is a better mountain bike than our first mountain bikes. If you are more drop bar than MTB, the Cascade will make you feel like a superhero when you hit the trails!

Whilst it's focused on being a drop bar bike, it's a similar shape to an old school mountain bike, so flat bar builds work too if you are more comfortable with MTB style bars. It's a super configurable frameset design, with Cotic's Your Bike Built For You service, there's almost nothing we can't do for you on a Cascade.

Cascade Gen2

This one has slipped under the radar a bit as we are already delivering the first bikes to customers, and we needed to give priority to them.

However, now we are in full production with it and build slots are open here's the lowdown on the updates:

EU Manufactured Frame - Made in Portugal

The Gen2 frames are now made in small batches with our new friends in Portugal on a rolling monthly basis. Unlike with our other frame builders where we get a few months or years' worth of stock in one go, this approach allows us to be a little more flexible and should hopefully mean more sizes and colours available more of the time. This is why you will see different delivery dates for different sizes and colours.

Size Specific Tube Specifications

The front triangle still feature superb Reynolds 853, but now in size specific diameters to maintain ride feel across the range. All the Cotic refinements like the Ovalform top tube and precision designed gussets for maximum longevity are all present and correct.

A La Carte custom paint now an option

As a result of our frames now being made in the EU, we have the option to bring them in with the ED Coat corrosion dip protection ready for custom colours. Make your Cascade even more yours with A La Carte.

Updated Sizing

The Cascade Gen2 has updated sizing, with rider tuned reach changes on sizes small, medium, large and XL based on feedback from Cotic owners and our own experiences of the bike over time.

Sizing changes are subtle. A few millimetres shorter on all sizes except extra small, increasing comfort and bringing the height range of each size more in line with our other bikes.

Rest assured if you have already ordered or had your bike delivered, we took all this into account when recommending the sizing, even if you did a demo on a Gen 1 bike.

44mm Head Tube

The move to 44mm straight head tube retains the generous stack height of the Gen1, but with more flexibility on headset options and bag strapping.

The 44mm head tube uses a Zero Stack (ZS) cup which is 5mm tall. The difference in head tube lengths and stack heights on the geo chart compared to the Gen1 are simply to account for this component change, so the lovely, heads up position the rider experiences on a Cascade is directly maintained from Gen 1 to Gen 2.

Improved Cable/Hose Management

Control lines now routed under the down tube, adopting the design from the Escapade. This make multiple bottle or luggage cage installation on the down tube much easier, and bags are less likely to snag

UDH and Transmission Compatibility

Custom Cotic designed dropout bring SRAM UDH for easy mech hanger availability worldwide, as well as SRAM Full Mount transmission compatibility.

Overall

Broadly we have kept everything brilliant about the original, including the smooth riding steel Alpaca fork, and made usability improvements that will benefit everyone from the rider doing local laps of the woods to the explorer crossing a continent.

Stock colours are Army Green Matte and Damson Matte. I think I'm leaning towards Damson being my favourite, but they're both lovely, and the finish is super tough powdercoat.

Today we launch the 2026 BFe, with Glow White and Denim colours.

Both bikes carry our updated look, with the Glow White is carried over from 2025 as it was so popular, with it's little Glow in the Dark party trick. Perfect for those Halloween night rides!

The Denim is a lovely, lo-fi blue in gloss finish. Super classy.

The BFe is now our longest running model, this being the 7th generation of the our hooligan hardtail since it was introduced in 2005. That's two decades being honed, developed and improved on the trails by riders, for riders. There's a reason Cotic hardtails have a great reputation: They were pretty damn good in the first place, and we've been making them better ever since!

Just like it's iconic forebears, the latest BFe is a do-it-all fun machine for longer travel forks, but it has a trick up it's sleeve: It features our custom Double Decker Dropout. This allows you to run either full 29er setup, or a mixed wheelsize Mullet option without affecting the geometry at all.

Today we open orders for our 2026 Cotic Solaris. Honed and refined for over two decades, the Solaris is our Reynolds 853, Made in EU flagship and it's quite simply the best hardtail we have ever built.

Our new colour is Limestone Gloss, carry our beautiful new look and our new 3D Printed head badge.

There isn't a second stock colour for 2026, because we are bringing in more frames for our A La Carte custom colour programme. This proved super popular on Solaris this year, so for 2026 we're offering more people the chance to put their own twist on our trail icon.

Orders are open now for the new colour for delivery in Mid-November, with A La Carte frames ordered now being delivered before Christmas. Price is held at £1,199 for the frame only (UK), with bikes starting from £2,899.

As a result of the new colour launch, our current colour stock in Ember or Forest is on sale to clear some space. These frames are reduced by 25% to £899, and this rolls over into £300 off any bike as well. We only have Forest in C2, C3 and C4, and Ember in C3, C4 and C5. Last few, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Chesterfield Showroom and HQ bike demos

Showroom opening times:

Normal opening times Wednesday — Friday (10am — 4pm)

Also open + Saturday 6th December (9am — 4pm)

Office Hours

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

Monday — Friday (9am — 5pm UK time)

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07970 853 531