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COTIC RocketMax 2024, a buyer’s review

This is a true buyer's review: the COTIC RocketMax frame and all the components used for this built were purchased by me, at true market value. My first proper big rig is in the house. 170mm front travel, 160 rear travel, coil shock. Enduro style frame, wide rims with sturdy tires. How does it fit my riding style? Is it suitable for the UP. DOWN. REPEAT approach to mountain biking that I aim for here, at mtbtours.ro? The short answer, coming after a month of intensive riding on our amazing…

Only true-to-life photos

All the photos you see on this website were shot during our own rides. Be it with clients (the vast majority), with friends or by ourselves. The image above, for instance, is taken on the way up to Scara Peak, Făgăraș Mountains, featured in our Carpathian Peaks program. Apart from a very small list of reports about tours abroad, the images were taken on the very trails we bike during our tours. It happens more often than not: lacking good quality photos, one would revert to image banks in order…

A season with COTIC FlareMax

This is a bike review that is not a bike review. It is a bike review because it’s about a bike that I’ve been riding almost daily for the last six months: April 2019 to November 2019. You can say we got to be quite intimate. It’s not a bike review, because I am not a bike reviewer, and my experience in riding a vast array of brands, models, takes, etc, is, to put it mildly, rather limited. In other words, this is not about how the COTIC FlareMax 29er…