UPDATED: Fat Chance Cycles reaches its $116,000 Kickstarter goal.

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At Interbike in September, there were sightings of Chris Chance, one of the early pioneers of mountain biking (especially on the east coast of America) and stories that he was going back into frame manufacturing after a 15 year absence from the industry.

The news was very well received by Fat Chance Cycles fans around the world and they’ve been waiting to see what the news would be. Chris has just announced that he will be making a starting run of bikes, funded through pre-orders on Kickstarter. He’s offering 27.5 and 29in frames built in steel, like the classic Yo Eddy! only with modern appointments like a dropper-compatible seat tube, tapered head tube and 142mm dropouts.

The website at fatchancebicycles.com details Chris’ ambitions for the brand – and he certainly seems to have the attention of many die-hard fans.

The Kickstarter page has now got over $117,000 pledged of its $116,000 goal. Frames start at $2,500, with T-shirt deals starting at $50.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1475918710/fat-chance-bicycles-yo-eddy-team-fat-chance-frame

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With 23 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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Comments (14)

    GHillGHill January 8, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    Ridiculous pricing.

    mtbfixmtbfix January 8, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    Ridiculous pricing? Not by today’s standards of pricing for bike stuff.

    Marc BasiliereMarc Basiliere January 8, 2015 at 4:18 pm

    I’m with GHill – $2.5k is a big ask for the guaranteed sale of a product that hasn’t been built yet. I’m not sure what full custom steel hardtails are going for, but am thinking that it’s generally under $2k.

    AlexSimonAlexSimon January 8, 2015 at 4:38 pm

    I also think they could have gone a little further down the line before asking people to commit.
    I don’t know what the geometry is, paint finish, suspension travel it’s built around, etc, etc

    Price is what I expected though tbh.

    Nigel LeechNigel Leech January 8, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Perfect for extracting cash from 40 somethings who remember the originals.

    muddypetemuddypete January 9, 2015 at 12:39 am

    $2k for a frame?
    Just buy a 45650B frame, have it custom spray-painted and spend the remaining £1500 on an ace holiday!

    AndrewAndrew January 9, 2015 at 11:41 am

    Its nice to see Fat Chance back and I’d like one of the frames but mostly from nostalgia…I’m not nostalgic enough about the brand to blew $2500 though, particularly when there’s no real details regarding geometry etc

    veedubbaveedubba January 9, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    I’ve wanted a Yo Eddy for the last 20 years, but that’s too rich for my blood, unfortunately. £1700 is a lot of money, even for the history.

    And an invitation to the launch party thing is great, but I’d rather have the cost for just a frame and no bells & whistles. $2000 would be (slightly) more palatable and realistic.

    spankonespankone January 9, 2015 at 2:12 pm

    Fat chance of him taking my $2.5k…. no thanks

    BenBen January 9, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    if only pace did a kickstarter for an updated RC100… still love those square tubes

    dang100dang100 January 11, 2015 at 9:20 am

    Its a bit rich for me too but 2.5k is about in line with what I remember Yo Eddy’s costing in the early 90’s.

    dang100dang100 January 11, 2015 at 9:22 am

    And, appropriately enough, i have an ad between the article and the comments offering me a Tripster frame for 1500 quid.

    horablehorable January 29, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    WHOOA. Sorry, why is the pricing so high? Seriously.

    thunder twonkthunder twonk January 29, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    Perfect for extracting cash from 40 somethings who remember the originals.

    Beat me to it!

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