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December 13th, 2014, 3:46 PM
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Fat City Stem
In 1987 I ordered my first Fat Chance. This is the stem it came with!
 At the time I worked at Mark's Bike Shop, and we were fast becoming an hot East Coast mail order shop in addition to a cool LBS. I ordered the Fat as an employee bike and was really surprised with the stem they sent. In fact, Wendyll "suggested" I send it back as it was a FC stem and not supposed to leave their shop, but also hinted it would be OK to keep it  Tom P. Last edited by one piece crank; December 13th, 2014 at 5:04 PM. |
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December 13th, 2014, 4:53 PM
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Photo?
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December 13th, 2014, 5:06 PM
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Just switch the file location. Hopefully you can see it now...
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December 13th, 2014, 6:18 PM
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Any chance of pics of the whole bike ?
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December 15th, 2014, 8:46 AM
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With considerable effort, I suppose I could find one. I sold that Fat Chance in 1989 to finance a new 1989 Wicked. This particular FC was the powder coat Red, with a Yellow fork and stem, chain stay Roller Cam, Deore XT (deerhead) with ratched shifters and Biopace rings. An hour or two with pin striping tape and it was officially tiger-striped!
I think I still have the deraileurs in a box somewhere...maybe shifters too. Tom P. |
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December 15th, 2014, 9:35 AM
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That's one cool stem.
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1975 Witcomb USA, 1981 Chris Chance; 1984 Fat Chance, 1987 Team Comp, 1991 Yo Eddy, Monster Fat, and Wicked ....happy to have finally found a clean 80s Fat Team Comp with a box crown fork 
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December 15th, 2014, 4:53 PM
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I had visions of this Team Comp paint job http://velocult.com/bikes/fat-chance-team-comp/ Was curious about these early custom FC paint styles 
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December 17th, 2014, 8:46 PM
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In the second half of the 80's to the early 90's Grove Innovations supplied stems, bars, and some combos to Chris for special builds.
Looks like you have an early example. rody |
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