Sea Otter 2017: Fat Chance Yo Eddy!

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Chris Chance was hand at the Sea Otter to introduce the newest version of the Yo Eddy – a bike that was reborn with much fanfare (and a rather long wait) this time two years ago.

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A Yo Eddy 2.0 – now it’s up to 2.2
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Here’s the original dropout arrangement. It’s all been Boosted now.

The new model uses Fat Chance’s newly-designed CNC machined ‘demi-yoke’ paired with Boost 148 rear axle spacing.This allows the rider to pick between a 27.5+ or 29er setup, with generous clearance for up to a 3.0 (x27.5) or 2.5 (x29in) tyre, respectively.

The Yo Eddy 2.2 also features a “brand-spanking new” thru-axle dropout and brake mount, moving the disc brake mount to the chainstay to keep the cable routing tidy.

The company’s original founder, Chris Chance plays a direct role in the design and fabrication of every part of the frame. Each frame is made-to-order based on Chris’s geometry, while allowing a range of custom options including: paint, decals, cable routing frame options.

From design to welding to painting, the Yo Eddy 2.2 is handmade completely in the USA and the company “offers riders the choices to suit their ride—however they roll.”

And there’ll be some classic colour combos available too…

○ Single color: Grello, Lavender, Red, Black, and Sapphire Blue

○ Two-color fades: AquaFade, Chameleon Metallica, and Purple/Sapphire Blue -+$400.00

● MSRP: $1799.00

For more info see www.fatchance.bike – and we’ve had original Fat Chance poster boy Dave Hemming threatening to get us a test bike very soon, so watch this space…

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Metallic Blurple (sorry ‘Purple/Sapphire Blue’). Definitely an iconic Fat Chance colour.

Chris himself was at the booth all day, but he was a little distracted when we first dropped by as he was busy actually selling a bike to a fan who’d come to the event, credit card in hand to buy a new frame.

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And if I can just have your mother’s maiden name and your favourite pet…
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Room for mahoosive tyres now.
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Here’s the neat new Boost and thru-axle dropout
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Every frame is still made in the USA
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Fans of the Slim Chance road bike can now get a matching steel five-piece fork
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A couple of studio shots showing the clearance and the new stays
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Clearance still with a 3.0
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That brake mount is very ‘Oooh!’ isn’t it?
Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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