{"id":1,"date":"2018-02-22T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flaremax.bike\/?p=1"},"modified":"2022-02-15T11:01:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T11:01:38","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/2018\/02\/22\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cotic FlareMax V2&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was never going to buy this bike. I was going to just have a hardtail and a full sus. Simple. But, I kinda went for a <a href=\"http:\/\/sentinel.bike\/\">bulldozer of a full sus that won&#8217;t be here til late May<\/a> and that left me with three options for the three months between now and then. Just ride the hardtail, ride the <a href=\"https:\/\/crafty.bike\/\">Crafty<\/a> or buy something new and shiny. I love my hardtail, but my arse is soft and many places are lumpy. The Crafty isn&#8217;t bad, but it has its issues and its going, so perhaps it should go sooner. And then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cotic.co.uk\/\">Cotic<\/a> launched their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cotic.co.uk\/product\/flareMAX\">new FlareMAX<\/a>&#8230;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The original FlareMAX (and indeed RocketMAX) both looked like interesting bikes. For a start, Cotic made them with a seat tube long enough for me (their 26\/650b hardtails are just too short). The v1 geometry was a little &#8216;old school&#8217; though, especially after a year on a Mondraker Crafty with its huge reach. Plus I&#8217;d heard stories of the bending moment on the shock causing a few issues and it has a 142mm rear hub, so I largely ignored it.<\/p>\n<p>With the v2 though came what Cotic call &#8220;Longshot&#8221; geometry. A marketing name for what the rest of us call longer and slacker. Alongside a switch to metric shocks with more overlap and a 148mm rear end, things become a practical possibility for me. So, a hardtail for my week riding across the UK in May or buy a cool UK designed steel bike from a company I&#8217;ve always fancied a bike from. Sorry credit card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was never going to buy this bike. I was going to just have a hardtail and a full sus. Simple. But, I kinda went for a bulldozer of a full sus that won&#8217;t be here til late May and that left me with three options for the three months between now and then. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flaremax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullit.net\/al\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}