For Sale Team Chance Mountainbike

[shackleton]

Beautiful and very rare bicycle from the nineties. Bottom bracket and headset are new. Frame height (seat tube, center of bottom bracket, end) is 48.5 cm. Located in Krefeld, Germany. Price €420, shipping upon request

 

[haveo]

Interested pending shipping cost, are you able to DM me?

 

[shackleton]

Interested pending shipping cost, are you able to DM me?

Message sent, thank you for your interest!

 

[PhillB]

That's very nice! Someone should snap that up quickly!! GLWS

 

[M-Power]

Pretty sure these frames were made as a cheaper option ‘under license’ to FAT CITY CYCLES and not made by the artisans in Somerville themselves. Quite a heavy frame but they are still collectable afaik. Seen different forks on these too.

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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