The Return of the Slim Chance

[eBAUMANN]

So this is happening...

$2295 (really $2395 after shipping) for frame/fork/headset
Made by Stinner

Basically a shot across the bow at Cielo.

Im undecided...

Part of me loves it and another part of me wishes Chris would just set up his own shop instead of contracting work from other builders.
I like Fat City/Fat Chance as a COMPANY, innovating, not so much as a BRAND, capitalizing on nostalgia...

[likebikes]

I think it would look better with a non-os headtube.

[eBAUMANN]

Originally Posted by likebikes

I think it would look better with a non-os headtube.

Agreed.

Sounds like they plan on offering a 1-1/8 steerer segmented road fork for it as well...I hope to god that means a 36mm head tube and not a reducer baseplate...that would look horrendous.
Though they are using 1-1/4 forks and i7 headsets...so maybe it would look ok...maybe.

[ColonelJLloyd]

To that end, are tapered spacers available that ease the transition from OS headtube to the stem?

[bicycletricycle]

ya, big head tube with reducer headset is a nightmare.

I'm totally okay with nostalgia, I hate that ibis makes (or at least only makes) carbon bikes.

without a segmented fork I find this completely uninteresting.

Cielo has nicer details.

[thirdgenbird]

I was disappointed to see the carbon fork. A segmented steel fork with the appropriate head tube would rock. I think this would also help differentiate the product

[pbarry]

The new co has a better chance of surviving by contracting the manufacturing, trust me. You would not like old FC as a 'company' if you had worked for them. Think of Serotta, only in a bad part of town, without the marketing, and worse delivery and credit issues..

[Cicli]

no disc?

I'm out.

Seriously, it looks good.

[buddybikes]

Chris should get his torch out and make a few lugged silver brazed frames, good friend had one absolutely beautiful 2 tone green gold. He could get some decent cash and show off.

[Cameron]

Originally Posted by eBAUMANN

Basically a shot across the bow at Cielo.

How so? Genuine question -- is there some back story I don't know about here? I certainly see the similarities but nothing seems too overt?

[cadence90]

All these "re-issues" are beginning to seem very tedious, impure, and Shinola to me.

[velomonkey]

Wait . . . . let me get this straight - yesterday Speedvagan intros a 5k complete bike in a purple color that was originally on Slim Chance 20 years ago . . . . the next day Slim Chance announces "hey, we're back" but they do so only in white, yellow, red or blue?????

Cripes, Chris Chance clearly needs to listen to other people cause that dude has got no sense.

[EDS]

I like the geometry of these better then the Cielo bikes, though I am in between sizes.

[pbarry]

Originally Posted by steveandbarb1

Chris should get his torch out and make a few lugged silver brazed frames, good friend had one absolutely beautiful 2 tone green gold. He could get some decent cash and show off.

Like Ben tried to do?

[pbarry]

Originally Posted by velomonkey

Wait . . . . let me get this straight - yesterday Speedvagan intros a 5k complete bike in a purple color that was originally on Slim Chance 20 years ago . . . . the next day Slim Chance announces "hey, we're back" but they do so only in white, yellow, red or blue?????

Cripes, Chris Chance clearly needs to listen to other people cause that dude has got no sense.

You got it right despite the sarcasm. Well done.