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1990 Fat Chance Team Comp

mainlyfats

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Restored and full NOS. Paint by Velocolour. Bike is in Canada - Winnipeg R3C 1K6 for shipping calculations. Probably the nicest 21' unicrown bike to come to market in forever and built with love by a long-time Fatcog. $2000 USD

https://flic.kr/s/aHsjwAp4NH

SOLD
 
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Stingercut

Active member
Well well...pure unicorn here. I love mine and would buy this too in a heartbeat if it was the size down. Best riding bikes FCC ever made IMO. They gently humm like the old top end road bikes did when you ride, with an amazing delightful unique resonance. I'm not talking about tyre noise here. I could ride it of course with less seat and a shorter stem but it should really go to somebody 6'3" +

I can't stop looking at this beauty and all NOS build too....:beer::beer::beer:
 

mainlyfats

Member
Well well...pure unicorn here. I love mine and would buy this too in a heartbeat if it was the size down. Best riding bikes FCC ever made IMO. They gently humm like the old top end road bikes did when you ride, with an amazing delightful unique resonance. I'm not talking about tyre noise here. I could ride it of course with less seat and a shorter stem but it should really go to somebody 6'3" +

I can't stop looking at this beauty and all NOS build too....:beer::beer::beer:

I'd say 6'1"-6'4". I rode this once prior to restoring it, but not since. Back in the day I had a 19" Team Comp with a 150mm stem and a Ritchey (ultimately slightly bent) seatpost right on the max line for my 6'3". I thought I would do my now much less supple back a favour...

Many thanks for the kind words. :beer:
 

Doug Carter

Moderator
Staff member
Ha! :) No, those were the Team Chances. Yo Eddy clones made for and distributed by Veltech.

Ahhhhhh yes. That's it. As my brain ages, I lose many of those wonderful useless tidbits that were once stored away for safe keeping.



Beautiful bike, and I love the headbadge. :thup:
 

M8

New member
Nicely done. GP Wilson dropouts like the bike I sold to a guy in Canada a few years ago.
 

Stingercut

Active member
GP Wilson Dropouts

If you love these special touches that make Fats...read on ...

Courtesy of Mtbr.com

...perhaps I can interest you in reading a bit of the history I've managed to locate on G.P. Wilson and his desirable dropouts. Here's a bit of copy and paste, along with a link to read more:

On a related topic - those GP Wilson dropouts were damn nice looking bits of
gear - saw them on a Chris Chance once in the late 80's. Is there any
pictoral archives on the web of dropout designs? I'm historically
challenged, as you can tell, and feeling nostalgic.


Warwick Gresswell
Owner, and wacky designer/inventor of a
dime a dozen variety.

re:
Dear Hoppy,
The problem with GP (Buster Wilson) was that like my Dad, he only started
building again after he retired.
Buster not only built really wonderful dropouts, which I used several score of
in my custom frames, but also made a lot of experimental stuff, including paper
thin dropouts and paper thin lugs.Buster always used me as his R&D testbed."See
if this will work or see if you can use it." I can't to this day remember if I
every paid him for all the myriad of parts that he provided to me all those
years.

They were very thin and indestructible and more than rivaled anything from the
world market or the newly emerging products of Henry James Folson and
dramatically less than 1/2 the weight but most were never put into production.

George Buster Wilson was a very gregarious human being, a close family friend
and in his own personal bike club venue, generated a number of very fine
handling ultra lightweight bicycles. Buster never sought any promotion and only
worked his art within a very small portion of the bicycling community in San
Diego County.

It was long after his passing away that people were starting to realize what a
remarkable engineer/craftsman/and bicycle genius that he was. His practical
approach to bicycle alignment which was the result of the discovery of many
decades of friendship with my father and him discussing the inadequacies of jig
tooling for bicycle frame construction as compared to the aircraft and other
items that they both built in their day jobs.
Buster developed a jig which has never been fully understood or been copied or
rivaled since which allowed the operator to construct a perfectly aligned frame
each and every time, completely eliminating cold setting.

In regards to the dropouts, the one vertical dropout that did reach semi
production level made from 17/4 ph was a perfectly practical dropout that was
not only virtually indestructible was was very lightweight. As much as I love
Art Stump, his dropouts pale as far as usability to those that Buster made.
Both of these men were very close friends. Buster being Buster and Art being
Bud. Their lives have paralleled for many decades, at one point in time they
had machine shops making aircraft parts right next door to each other. A
different time, a different life, kinda of like what you and I enjoy when we go
out back to feed the tiger.

Freddy Parr

Gotta love the GP Wilsons :cool:
 

Stingercut

Active member
My 89 TC with GP Wilson dropouts front and rear ;) She still puts the biggest smile on my face after all these years :beer:
 

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