The Cotic Flare is our 130mm travel, 27.5" wheel, light and lively trail bike.

The Flare combines the DNA of our Rocket enduro bike with the light, subtle feel of our legendary Soul to bring a fun, nippy, endlessly addictive ride into your life. It uses 27.5" wheels to keep the weight low, and handling agile and responsive.

The Flare balances light weight with toughness. It can be a singletrack scapel one minute, a rock smashing bomber the next. This is one of the most versatile bikes we make. If you love our hardtails, then this is the FS bike for you.

The Flare uses our droplink suspension layout which really brings together the grace, durability, clean lines, fun and interactive feel we put into all our bikes.

Reynolds 853 delivers a fantastically robust and durable, long lasting front end, with the Ovalform top tube and our custom made tapered head tube coming over from the Soul. A light, thin wall down tube sheds weight from the frame compared to our harder hitting Rocket. As with all the droplink bikes, the Cotic custom designed heat treated seat tube gives incredible stiffness at suspension pivots to give you the confidence you need when cut and pasting your lines between the trees and rocks.

Steel is also used for the seatstays, which are completely bespoke to the Flare. Its strength allows us to minimise the size of this part of the frame, maximising ankle, heel and calf clearance. Custom ultra slim titanium droplink pivot fittings complete the picture.

The swingarm is 7000 series aluminium. It allows us to create the complex shaped CNC machined parts required to thread through the area between the tyre and chainrings, and still get as much structure as possible in the brace area for great stiffness at the back of the bike.

The details and latest trends are all covered: Taper steerer compatible head tube, 142x12 Syntace X-12 bolt thru back end for stiffness, sealed, capped and shielded pivots, ISCG05 mounts, right down to the precisely located hose routing, plus internal and external routing for maximum dropper seatpost compatibility.

In short, it's a brilliant all round trail bike, with a fleet footed feel, synapse quick handling, crisp climbing, fun descending. In short, it's what we used to call a "Mountain Bike".

If you'd prefer the security and rollover ability of larger 29" or 275Plus sized wheels in your trail bike package, then head over and take a look at the FlareMAX.

Need more travel and toughness, but like the lively ride of 27.5" wheels? Want something a little more enduro? You need our Rocket.

Like the idea of Flare style riding but want a hardtail? You need the Soul

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• Cotic OFI bike fit with long cockpit, corrected seat angle for dropper posts and carefully placed BB to combine stability with a fun, interactive feel.
• Reynolds 853 Ovalform and DZB tubed front end brings precision, durability and strength
• 44mm standard Cotic custom tapered head tube designed with external bottom cup for taper steerer compatibility and EC34 top cup for lighter weight and clean lines.
• Custom Cotic designed 35mm heat treated cromoly seat tube for super stiff support for the main suspension pivots
• 31.6mm seatpost size is dropper seatpost compatible. The frame has external and internal 'Stealth' dropper post remote routing
• ISCG05 mounts on regular threaded bottom bracket bring drivetrain security and reliability
• 7005-T6 aluminium swingarm with Syntace X-12 142 x 12 rear axle for maximum wheel stiffness and security.
• 15mm pivots for BB and droplink thru axle style linkage clamp keep the frame solid front to rear
• Clearance for big tyres - up to 27.5" x 2.5"
• Geometry for agility, fun and interaction using 120, 130 or 140mm forks. 67.5deg head angle and low 13.3" BB with 130mm fork
• 130mm of Cotic droplink suspension brings precision, fun and lively interaction via a strong progression rate on the linkage driven single pivot layout
• Sizes - Small (16"), Medium (17.5"), Large (19")
• Weight - Gold Spec Bike 28.8lbs w/o pedals

The chart is a guide to frame size. OFI Geometry means that the frames are low and long, with plenty of standover room. You can take this two ways: You can either have a regular position coupled with a small and chuckable frame, or you could go for the next size up and go long and racey with a short stem without feeling like you're riding a gate. Make sure you consider your leg length as well. If you upsize you might not be able to fit a dropper post with 150mm drop due to the collar hitting the seat tube top. You lot are just too different to say for sure, so drop us a line at size@cotic.co.uk and we'll be happy to discuss set up based on what you're riding at the moment.

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Seatpost diameter: 31.6mm (get 380mm long minimum)

Front Mech: 34.9mm (Shimano Side Swing high clamp only [click here for info])

Bottom Bracket width: 73mm

Bottom Bracket thread: Conventional English/BSA

Chainguide Mounting: ISCG05

Headset: 34mm top, 44mm bottom for Taper Steerer forks: Hope 1H, Cane Creek EC34 Top/EC44 Bottom, Chris King Inset I7

Rear Hub: 142 x 12 bolt through

Rear Axle: Syntace X-12

Rear Mech Hanger: Syntace X-12 Type 1 (Conventional or Shimano Direct Mount)

Fork: Maximum 140mm travel, 531mm axle-crown (without sag)

Shock: 200 x 50 or 51

Shock Fittings: 15.75 x M8 Down Tube End, 19.0 x M8 Seatstay End

Dropper Post Routing: Both external under the top tube, and Stealth via the down tube.

Rear Brake Mounting: I.S. Compatible with up to 203mm diameter rotors