Sea Otter 2015: Fat Chance Cycles in the flesh

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Chris Chance was on hand at the Sea Otter to show off his near to production bikes – which includes much of the forum-based ‘constructive criticism’ after revealing his original Kickstarter campaign.

A happy Mr Chance

The 2015 Yo Eddy will feature a new, straight head tube (rather than the unpopular conical design) and some neat touches, like zip-tie cable stops, a bolt-on front mech boss and some shaped and machined chainstays – especially in the crank clearance area. Having previously never said he’d have a shaped (or dented) chainstay, Chance has had to go against his principles in the name of actually fitting a modern sized tyre in there. Another trademark Fat Chance thing to go by the way are the bullet chainstay ends, due to the newly enlarged dropouts that’ll take the thru-axle.

It’s like this, only brighter!
Traditional untapered stays

Chris is very excited to be back in the bike trade and, with a full initial order book, looks forward in getting the first frames made at their Californian frame shop they’re using.

The Mk2 (or three, if you count the original back in the day) Yo Eddy looks very smart and we imagine it’ll make many new owners very happy.

New, new, new thru-axle dropouts
Lots of room for 27.5 tyres

 

More pics in the gallery below…

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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