Frida - Canadian Team Chance - Guest Bike

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First I freely admit Abba is a guilty pleasure of mine, hence the name for her, Frida.

Second - here is a thread on these bikes I started a few weeks back:

Thread 'The Canadian "Team Chance"'

Jun 18, 2025

Okay, so for starters I am well aware these frame-sets were not made by Chris Chance or Fat Chance.

A few days of searching the web, here is what I have found.... and I will be the first to admit this all my be BS or myth.

"Its one of Chris's side projects. Canadian brand (owned by Veltec).
Chris was the designer.
Basically Chris decided to license/market his name to another company and thus I suppose, make some coin without having to actually pick up a torch (or declare it on the fatcity books).
Except for the dropouts and tubing spec, it was virtually the same bikes (identical...

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What started out as a pick up for a friend has ended up with me keeping the bike. It is now the gravel/pavement/lite off road guest bike for my shorter friends to ride.

1991 Canadian Team Chance.

The bike came mostly full DX & Ritchey parts stock with the exception of grips and tires.

It now has had a bunch of changes.

Shifters/Brake Levers are full XT ST-M091 Rapidfire
Seref Wrist Support Grips
Giant branded bar ends
Kenda K-Rad 2.30 tires front & rear
Generic alloy body/cage pedals

The rest is stock as she came to me. Gotta love that Tange Struts fork.

I am very happy with the end result and my two friends who will be borrowing it are very pleased with it.