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Stolen Cotic Bikes: UK Frame-Number Check (Free)
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Cotic frame numbers are stamped underneath the bottom bracket. Steel holds a stamp well, so if you cannot read it, clean off the mud and grease and try again with a torch before concluding it has gone. Run the code through Cyclesite's free lookup for an instant UK check against a stolen-bike registry and rider-filed theft reports.
Where Cotic stamps the frame number
Under the bottom bracket, punched into steel. That material matters for how you interpret what you find: steel takes a deep, durable stamp, so unlike a light etch on carbon a Cotic code should still be legible after years of hard use. What it does collect is Peak District mud packed into the shell, which reads as a blank surface until it is cleaned off properly.
Cotic on the UK used market
Cotic is a Derbyshire steel frame builder selling direct, and its frames have a long second life: a Soul or BFe often passes through several owners and several complete rebuilds. Reynolds tubing decals describe the steel rather than the bike. Because Cotic sells direct, the original order record rather than a shop receipt is the paperwork a first owner would have.
FAQs
- Where is the frame number on a Cotic?
- Stamped underneath the bottom bracket, into the steel.
- I cannot read the stamp on my Cotic.
- Clean the mud and grease out of the shell and try again with a torch at a shallow angle. Steel holds a stamp well, so it is usually obscured rather than gone.
- Is the Reynolds decal the frame number?
- No. That describes the tubing. The frame number is the code stamped into the shell.
Police datapolice.uk releases
Most stolen bikes are never traced back to anyone
Police recorded 28,531 bicycle thefts across 44 UK city centres over three years. A suspect was identified in 10.1% of closed cases, and 1 in 33 reached a charge. Pick an area for the local picture.
Jun 23Down 25% in three yearsMay 26
- 8,221
- thefts recorded in 12 months
- −12%
- change on the year before
- 10.1%
- of closed cases had a suspect identified
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