Cotic Cascade Flat Bar in Gloss Forest

Cotic Cascade Flat Bar Bronze

Forest Green Gloss / XS
£2,399.00
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Cotic Cascade Flat Bar in Gloss Forest
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Cotic Cascade Flat Bar Bronze

Cotic Cascade Flat Bar Bronze

£2,399.00

Our inspirational flat bar adventure bike. Bikepacking and Life Hacking, or just some old school XC. Trails, tracks, loaded tours, big days out into the back of beyond. It handles all of it with the same unhurried confidence. Signature Cotic ride feel that breathes with the trail, and a rigid simplicity and beautifully clean silhouette.

The Ride

Cascade is designed to thrive offroad, not just survive. Cotic Sureshot geometry gives you agility between the trees, and long wheelbase stability and confidence when you’re loaded up or moving fast. Flat bars or Jones style bars give you options and control, and a relaxed feel to your offroad adventures.

Go minimalist with our bespoke Alpaca steel fork for the purest ride, or add 100mm suspension forks for more capability and comfort on demanding terrain. However you choose to build it, the Cascade wears every setup with confidence and panache.

Not All Steel Is Equal

Reynolds 853 is a special heat-treated steel, which makes it stronger than standard steel tubing. That lets us use thinner walls and build a lighter frame without losing the toughness steel is known for. Every Cascade is hand made and finished in the EU. It’s a frame built to be ridden hard for years, across continents if that’s where your plans take you.

The Ride

Cascade is designed to thrive offroad, not just survive. Cotic Sureshot geometry gives you short stem agility between the trees, and long wheelbase stability and confidence when you’re loaded up or moving fast. The drop bars give a comfortable, versatile position for long days. It’s familiar enough for road riders stepping into the rough stuff, and a revelation for mountain bikers discovering how much fun this kind of bike can be on familiar trails.

Go minimalist with our bespoke Alpaca steel fork for the purest ride, or add 100mm suspension forks for more capability and comfort on demanding terrain. However you choose to build it, the Cascade wears every setup with confidence and panache.

Not All Steel Is Equal

Reynolds 853 is a special heat-treated steel, which makes it stronger than standard steel tubing. That lets us use thinner walls and build a lighter frame without losing the toughness steel is known for. Every Cascade is hand made and finished in the EU. It’s a frame built to be ridden hard for years, across continents if that’s where your plans take you.

Bronze Build

The Bronze build has hard-wearing Shimano CUES 11-speed Linkglide gears, powerful Shimano Deore hydraulic brakes, and fast-rolling WTB Nano tubeless tyres.

Make it yours. On this bike you can choose A La Carte custom paint. A La Carte frames are painted to order right here in the UK, just a few miles from Cotic HQ.

Choose your frame colour and decal colour from our list of tried and tested paints, and choose a matte or gloss finish.

  • A La Carte adds £300 to the price.
See the full A La Carte guide and more examples → Cotic A La Carte colour chart
Jeht Ember Gloss with White Highlight with Black Graphics
Jeht Ember Gloss with White Highlight with Black Graphics
Golfie Green Gloss with White Graphic
Golfie Green Gloss with White Graphic
Forest Gloss with White Graphics
Forest Gloss with White Graphics
Copper Orange Matte with Silver Graphics
Copper Orange Matte with Silver Graphics
Colour
Frame Size

Prefer to pay a 20% deposit, or want to change the spec? Add it to your basket and choose Place Provisional Order, or call us on 07970 853 531. Nothing is charged until we've agreed your build.

  • Free UK delivery. Europe: £150 for bikes, £40 for frames. No UK VAT is charged to Europe; you pay import VAT and any duties and fees on delivery
  • Built and checked before dispatch — front wheel, bars and pedals to fit
  • Available via Cyclescheme, Green Commute Initiative or Cycle Solutions

Choose your build

Cotic Cascade Flat Bar in Gloss Forest
Bronze This build
£2,399.00
Cotic Cascade Flat Bar in Gloss Forest
Silver
£2,999.00
Cotic Cascade Flat Bar in Gloss Forest
Gold
£3,699.00

Prefer drop bars? See the Cascade drop bar builds →

Upgrade your build

Add any of these alongside your bike, they'll show as a separate line in your basket.

WTB Macro 29x2.4" Tyres
In place of WTB Nano 29 x 2.1". No cost
No cost
RockShox SID SL 100mm Suspension Fork
In place of the standard fork
+£600.00
Bikeyoke Revive 125mm Dropper Post
+£200.00
Upgrade Bronze Build : Hope Fortus 26
+£350.00
Hope 2H Headset — Bronze Build
Choice of 7 Hope colours, fitted, replacing the standard Cane Creek
+£60.00
Cascade Framebag
+£65.00
Spare UDH (Universal Derailleur Hanger)
+£20.00
Cotic Headbadge — Cast Metal, Hand Polished
+£40.00

The story

The Ride

Cotic Cascade Flat Bar bikepacking in Africa

The Cascade Flat Bar handles like all Cotics: agile, confidence inspiring and immediately enjoyable. The Sureshot geometry keeps the steering quick and light on its feet, and it works brilliantly with everything from big MTB risers to big sweep Jones style bars.

The Reynolds 853 frame filters the rough stuff and keeps you fresh and comfortable for hours (or days) on end. Add the Cotic Alpaca steel rigid fork and big-volume tyres, and you have a bike that covers ground faster and more comfortably than it has any right to.

It's the kind of bike that makes you want to add another hour to a ride, or another day to a trip.

Built On Experience

Riding the Cotic Cascade Flat Bar

Gravel and bikepacking bikes spend a lot of time offroad. That being the case, doesn't it make sense to trust a company who has made some of the best riding steel mountain bikes for over twenty years to design a bike like this? The Cascade carries all of that offroad design experience into a rigid platform that's equally at home on a quick evening loop or a week-long expedition. Reynolds 853, Sureshot geometry, and every fitting and mount you need to go as light or as loaded as the day demands.

Origin

MADE IN CZECH REPUBLIC

Cotic frames are designed, developed, engineered and tested entirely by us at our base in the Peak District, near Sheffield in the UK. Our founder - Cy Turner - is the lead designer and engineer, and our frames are rigorously ride tested by everyone at Cotic. They are fully certified and lab tested in excess of the requirements of ISO4210 safety standards.

Cascade Gen2 frames delivered from July 2026 have been hand made by Fort in Czechia.

Previous to that, Cascade Gen2 frames delivered from October 2025 were made in Portugal.

A La Carte frames are painted to order right here in the UK, just a few miles from Cotic HQ. You can choose the base colour and decal colour from our extensive list of tried and tested paints, and you also have the choice of matte or gloss finish on whichever colourway you choose.

If you order the new Forest stock colour, those frames have been built by Fort in Czechia, and they have finished the frames as well, with their tough, beautiful gloss powdercoat.

As always, all complete bikes are built to order by us right here in our workshop, to the exact spec of your choice. We build your bike for you.

Sizing & geometry

XS 155 - 166cm
Small 165 - 172cm
Medium 172 - 180cm
Large 180 - 189cm
XL 186 - 195cm
Frame Size XS Small Medium Large XL
Seat Tube (centre-top) 400 435 470 505 540
Top Tube Length (effective) 532 546 575 603 631
Rear Centre 439 439 439 439 439
Head Angle 68° 68° 69° 69° 69°
Seat Angle 74.5° 74° 74° 74° 74°
BB Drop 70 70 70 70 70
Head Tube Length 100 116 133 150 165
Reach 357 372 393 414 435
Stack 607 619 640 656 667
Wheelbase 1064 1077 1109 1136 1163
Cotic Alpaca fork included with frame
Rigid Fork Length 483 483 483 483 483
Fork Offset 44 44 44 44 44

Photos

Cotic Cascade Flat Bar in Gloss Forest
Cotic Cascade Gravel Adventure bike, Reynolds 853 steel, Gloss Forest Green, logo view on chainstay
Cotic Cascade Gravel Adventure bike, Reynolds 853 steel, Gloss Forest Green, wishbone seatstay
Cotic Cascade Gravel Adventure bike, Reynolds 853 steel, Gloss Forest Green, custom UDH dropout, SRAM Transmission, SRAM Full Mount
Cotic Cascade Flat Bar Bronze
Cotic Cascade Flat Bar Bronze
Cotic Cascade Gravel Adventure bike, Reynolds 853 steel, Custom Painted A La Carte Crimson Gloss, Side View, Purple Hope Parts
Cotic Cascade Gravel Adventure bike, Reynolds 853 steel, Custom Painted A La Carte Sunny Yellow, Side View, Purple Hope Parts
Cotic Cascade Flat Bar bikepacking in Africa
Riding the Cotic Cascade Flat Bar

Component sizes

For fitting your own parts, or checking compatibility before you buy.

Seatpost diameter
31.6mm (350mm minimum, seatpost insertion required: 100mm minimum)
Dropper post
Stealth internal, P-clip routing on the down tube
Suspension fork
100mm travel, maximum 506mm axle to crown length (without sag)
Front hub
Boost110, 15mm thru axle
Rear axle
Cotic 12x148, M12x1.0 thread
Rear mech hanger
UDH (Transmission compatible)
Chainline
Maximum 38t round / 36t oval, using Boost 52mm chainline
Front mech
N/A, 1x only
Brakes
Flat Mount +20 front and rear. Rotors: 180mm front / 160mm rear recommended, maximum 180mm front and rear
Brakes (flat/MTB bar)
Post mount brakes can be fitted with 180mm rotors front and rear using Shimano adaptors SM-MA-F160P/D front and SM-MA-R160P/D rear
Tyres
29 x 2.6" or 27.5 x 3.0" front; 29 x 2.4" or 27.5 x 2.8" rear

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