FS: Chris Chance Pista

I bought this bike 10 years ago when I collected Chris Chance bikes. It is currently my last Chris Chance and I want to make room for something else. This bike has never been ridden and is in museum condition. It was a custom that Chris made for the owner of the Bicycle Exchange shop in Massachusetts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the shop in 1984. It has some very exquisite details like sterling silver head badge, logos and stars. Lugset is a custom HJ set including fork crown. The frame measures 55cm cc both seat tube and top tube. The Campagnolo Record pista groupset has custom cut-out stars. The rims are Nisi tubulars that read "for professional use only". Bars, stem, saddle and toe straps are all Cinelli. It is a bike that does not deserve to be ridden (sorry) and belongs in a museum or on a wall (above a bed). I once paid over GBP5000 for it and although that is quite a lot I do not expect to get that 100% back. It needs a good new home and I can ship it anywhere you want from the Netherlands. Because the tubulars are dried out, I'll send it without.

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I'm not in the market for it, but WOW!

Sorry for making a big mistake by asking this ignorant question, but why is this bike worth that kind of money? Except from being rare and unused that is, what's the story behind it?

Absolutely stunning

Fat City Cycles were among the most coveted handmade MTB manufacturers in the 90s ... producing bikes that captured the zeitgeist of the time

Chris Chance was the main dude behind Fat - He rarely builds under his own name

Is this @ᘜครɬ๑ຖ🐒 sized?

Absolutely masterpiece but bikes like this are so hard to value could be worth 3-4000 but could be £10000 and as @D_Mars said anything by Chris Chance is extremely sought after the yo eddys as pictured above regularly go for £1700-2500 depending on condition and they were produced in reasonable volume and were very popular in the early 90's. This example is a very rare one off commission in the most perfect condition so it's certainly going to be expensive

It is a thing of beauty, I am not sure this is the marketplace for it though.

Needs A head converter, riserz, Miche supertype and gatorskins

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