Project ended: Bike-tech? 199? Titanium

[24pouces]

Seems to be the same japanese maker of the early Emery titanium (french brand)
https://generationmountainbike.com/project/1993-emery-titane/
(The Emery was madd in Ti 4al6V)
The end of the main tubes seems to got the same welding around and the drpoouts are quite the same

 

[Fatboy1974]

Yes. I detected this ( there is an old thread about my frame). Vwery characteristic and nice welding. Maybe it was Tig Titanium. Dropouts are very similar. I hope not to be Ti4Al6V, it's very fragile...
But I would like to find some info about Bike tech.
I'm very happy with this frame. It has a crack in seat tube clamp area, but frame works well with it. This is why I bought it cheap. I don't plan to repair at the moment.

Thank you a lot for your help, mates!

 

[Elev12k]

old post from 2015 in the German classic bike forum
https://www.mtb-news.de/forum/t/yo-...-city-cycles-sind-zuruck.723893/post-12759664
user Punkrocker is a trustworthy source well connected to the bike industry since many years.

"War neulich mal bei Markus Storck im Büro. Da steht ein Bike Tech aus Titan. Es war wohl die Vorlage für das Fat Chance Titan, 1:1 so umgesetzt. Kenner wissen: Storck war damals der Vertrieb von Fat Chance und hatte großen Einfluss auf die Produkte. Der liebe Chris war wohl schon damals nicht ganz so kreativ, wie er hier gefeiert wird."

Translation:
"I was recently visiting Markus Storck in his office. There is a bike tech titanium bike. It was probably the template for the Fat Chance Titan, implemented 1:1 like this. Some may know: Storck was Fat Chance's distributor at the time and had a major influence on the products. Chris Chance was probably not quite as creative back then as one may think."

That means he's saying that the this bike tech titan prototype was potentially used as blue print for the Fat Chance Titan bike.
Strong words and hard to prove, and not everyone may agree, still wanted to share this here.

At least there are some obvious differences like the drop outs.

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They are both a frame in titanium. Apart from that I do not see much resemblance. Early FAT Ti had sleeved butted tubing, later models machined butted tubing.