So, that Fat Chancer Frame??
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Paint it Grello (or some other iconic Fat Chance colour) put some custom decals on it which may or may not show your feelings towards it. How about "Fat Chance" on the down tube and "My Arse" as the model on the top tube? I'm sure you can come up with something funnier.
Do a fantastic and professional job (this is important) as with your other builds and then auction it giving the money to charity.
You get your point across and do a good deed.
Do a fantastic and professional job (this is important) as with your other builds and then auction it giving the money to charity.
You get your point across and do a good deed.
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if your really gonna kill it please dont i really wanted that frame but missed out as i couldn't get online 
:cry: ps YES I WANT IT and im not fibbing
:cry: ps YES I WANT IT and im not fibbing 
Build it and ride it! You'll have yourself a unique bike no matter what it's trying to resemble, and no doubt a good frame too.
I wouldn't mind it... and not just for the controversy. You could certainly have some fun and come up with an interesting useable build!
Would sooner not see bikes/frames purchased solely as forum fodder but instead because they're actually wanted and appreciated. how it should be
I wouldn't mind it... and not just for the controversy. You could certainly have some fun and come up with an interesting useable build!
Would sooner not see bikes/frames purchased solely as forum fodder but instead because they're actually wanted and appreciated. how it should be
mikee":1gbjc3fh said:
A pram with three wheels would ride better than the MissFire Mikee.
Some interesting ideas on here. Sadly there are many 'more money than sense' comments, which is not the point. I see people spend good money on frames that were considered poor bitd, and those dreadful plastic spokey wheels but i dont start whining on about wasting money. If thats what you want to waste your money on, cool, blow yourself out.
I'm not doing this to make a point, and certainly not as one poster said 'trying to get cool guy brownie points' (ffs, it would take more than jumping up and down on a frame to make me 'cool' mate
). This is RetroBike and we are passionate about OLD bikes. Fat fan or not, the cynical cashing in of 'retro cool' by some marketing arse should raise your temperature. Taking it out of circulation draws a line under this pathetic chapter in On Ones story. To those that wanted to buy it and use it... You should have put your money where your mouths are. No point in crying foul that you didnt get it. It was outed and an open auction. Bid to buy etc.
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While I can't subscribe to the idea that this frame's demise is necessary to save the reputation of a defunct manufacturer of welded bicycles, I'm very taken with the idea of creative destruction. And there's far too much repro tat in the world.
(And ignore the poll: many in the destroy camp will have an apathetic streak that means they can't be arsed to vote, while the savers will feel morally obliged to pipe up.)
So, I'd recommend working on the theme of change: it started out as a bunch of ancient metalic minerals and is now a hapless footnote to contemporary mechanical reproducion. Change it into something rich and strange.
Taking inspiration from the wonderful Mull Rockhopper, and a recollection of that chap that created a lightning field in New Mexico ...........
..... squeeze the damn thing in a giant mangle -- or beat it to an airy thinness -- then roll it up to make a sweet spike of metal. Next, take it to a prominent part of the Cheviots and plant it atop a makeshift cairn.
Thereput, it can spend a good few years teasing lighning out of the clouds and gathering a lush patina.
Ahhh.
(And ignore the poll: many in the destroy camp will have an apathetic streak that means they can't be arsed to vote, while the savers will feel morally obliged to pipe up.)
So, I'd recommend working on the theme of change: it started out as a bunch of ancient metalic minerals and is now a hapless footnote to contemporary mechanical reproducion. Change it into something rich and strange.
Taking inspiration from the wonderful Mull Rockhopper, and a recollection of that chap that created a lightning field in New Mexico ...........
..... squeeze the damn thing in a giant mangle -- or beat it to an airy thinness -- then roll it up to make a sweet spike of metal. Next, take it to a prominent part of the Cheviots and plant it atop a makeshift cairn.
Thereput, it can spend a good few years teasing lighning out of the clouds and gathering a lush patina.
Ahhh.
It's obvious that many RBers thought On-One were idiots to even dream of linking their proposed frame to an original Fat Chance.
But my general love of bikes says: Don't just wreck it to make a statement.
I can't help thinking Afribike or Project Rwanda could use it...?
Maybe grit your teeth, build it up and then do an unique back-to-back report for the Retrobike site? "Somerville versus Chancer: The Ugly Truth!"
Then, if you hate it, donate it to a bike charity or post in on here for swaps/ karma/ packet of biscuits.
It's a bike. That makes it among man's best inventions - Only beaten by...
Better bikes.
And chocolate.
And Paulaner wheat beer.
And hotties.
But my general love of bikes says: Don't just wreck it to make a statement.
I can't help thinking Afribike or Project Rwanda could use it...?
Maybe grit your teeth, build it up and then do an unique back-to-back report for the Retrobike site? "Somerville versus Chancer: The Ugly Truth!"
Then, if you hate it, donate it to a bike charity or post in on here for swaps/ karma/ packet of biscuits.
It's a bike. That makes it among man's best inventions - Only beaten by...
Better bikes.
And chocolate.
And Paulaner wheat beer.
And hotties.
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