Fat Chance info wanted

[stavros222]

Firstly, apologies if this has been covered elsewhere. I've done a quick search and couldn't find anything on it so I thought i'd ask the question.....

Where can I find the history of Fat Chance??? The models that they have made, production dates and numbers produced etc.

I've just bought this one off ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %26fvi%3D1

and i'll be looking to get the history on it. Can anyone tell me anything about it?? Literally anything! I'll be restoring it and I wondered if there are specific colours/patterns etc based on the year of the frame, that I should be sticking to. Is this paint original? I know they can have a rust problem. Is there anything else to watch for?

Probably should have asked all this BEFORE purchasing, but I thought it looked a good buy so I jumped in feet first. Nothing new there then!

Cheers in advance!

 

[Ransetsu]

Fat

first of all - congratulations on a great looking bike with a decent spec list !
i think the sit you need is called FatCogs which is a Fat Chance owners group .... you can get all the info you need from these guys

 

[stavros222]

Thanks! I'll be doing that! Are these decals year correct for this frame set???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0231727548

 

[Ransetsu]

Fat

sorry ! can't help you there .... i have a 1988 Wicked myself ..

 

[Elev12k]

That's Grello Original paint for sure. John has a Grello (but without the blue fading) for example

Yes, they are the correct decals. The question is whether they are the right colour for you.

FATs do not have a rust issue. They rust when there isn't properly taken care of them.

No covering online?! Hmmm... Here you go! =>

www.fatcogs.com
www.firstflightbikes.com/fat
FATFANS
www.mtb-kataloge.de

 

[scant]

thats a nice price for the full bike! thats team grellow, if stock grellow is pretty rare. then team grellow is rarer still

 

[Elev12k]

Where did you get that information that it is ''Team Grellow''??? To my information there is only Grellow ..and a small run is finished with the blue fading

 

[scant]

Where did you get that information that it is ''Team Grellow''??? To my information there is only Grellow ..and a small run is finished with the blue fading

wendyl

 

[Elev12k]

..and Wendyl was not in making things up?

 

[scant]

..and Wendyl was not in making things up?

i havent spoken to wendyl in some time. but she was incredibularly open with me in the past & helpful regarding paint schemes, frame numbers & the like. I cant remeber who I got the yo eddy fork off (from switzerland I think). at the time I wanted to get my yo eddy frame (now slims) colour matched to the fork, so i asked wendyl about it. intionally it was meant to be a team only colour, but people liked it so much it was later used on other customer frames as well. I saw my first 1 on the back of a VW (german plate) camper at 1 of the v.early newnham park grundig world cups & loved grellow ever since. FAT did masses of custom paint & variations of what we now consider standard schemes, grellow being just 1 example.