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OK, so here is a bit of trivia for all you COG members. There are no plasma welded Wickeds. I know this may shock many of you but it's true. :oops: My predecessor, Gary Helfrich, adapted a plasma torch to an old Miller Syncrowave TIG welding machine and managed to get it working to some...

Nice looking Fat! Don't see many of these. The Fat had a slacker head angle - 69 degrees versus 71 for the wicked - slightly longer chainstays and a 2 inch rake on the original unicrown fork. Looks like the original black powder coat finish which was applied to all of the frames (I forget the...

Thanks for posting the photo of the hang tag! From top to bottom: The red squiggly signature - Wendyll Behrend, wife of Chris Chance and co-owner of Fat City Cycles; KUBY - Alison Kuby - worked in finishing and did brazing and some welding. She was an amazing metal artist and left FCC to move to...

Hi Rody! Nice to see that you're still around. Had fun meeting and hanging out with you in Hartford. Hope things are well and I still have the T-shirt Regards Scott

She looks pretty again! Where did you get that handle bar? Let me know Thanks Scott

Its a knock-off, we never used brake mounts like that on Yo forks. No tear-drop gussets. The bottom cut-outs are almost flat and we used laser-cut tube sections that were welded to the fork legs. Also, I believe we used Campagnolo drop-outs exclusively unless the customer wanted stainless steel...

Super-rare TRIALS frame! It's been bastardized with a derailleur mount and a suspension fork but it is a true TRIALS frame (not trails, like the ad says)

SOLD, somebody got a good deal for $1350

SOLD according to ebay ad

Thanks for the kind words as usual. I like the black outline decals on this. Haven't seen that before on a TI frame Scott

It's definitely a custom but I can't think of anyone in the shop who had a 21" Wicked like that, so it's likely a custom order. I don't know anything about the significance of the paint / graphics but we were doing all kinds of weird stuff for those who were willing to pay for it. The...

That's a steal!! A decent 19.5" Wicked and that would have been the 1249th frame built in 1989 so I would put it around late September or early October of '89. Things were cranking in the old Olive Square shop then. Treat her well Scott

Somehow I sensed the page! hahaha Since you've gone to the trouble of blasting and powder coating, the cheapest fix is to patch with a drop of epoxy. If there is no obvious corrosion around the pinhole, then it will not be that likely to grow any further. Make sure the bike is wiped clean and...

An email went out to the mailing list members this past Thursday Feb. 10, 2022. First communication I've seen from them in a long time Scott

I would be very surprised to see a top tube rusting from the inside out. In fact, i would say it's nearly impossible since there are no vent holes in either the head tube or the seat tube. If there is moisture inside the top tube, it is there from the day it was welded. I suppose there is a...

Wow! That is so cool. I'm sorry that I really have no memory of this. I will say that the Yo Eddy head rendering in weld bead was likely done by one of the welders and not by Mike P. I don't ever remember seeing Mike do any TIG welding. He did do quite a bit of the silver brazing as part of the...

I'm not 100% sure, but likely just related to demand. There must have been higher demand from shorter riders for the small size versus the demand for the M, ML, or L sizes. Wish I had the cash, I would snap this up for the wife. Regards Scott

Anybody that had a polished TI frame in the shop did it themselves. I don't think we ever farmed any out to be polished but I could be wrong at this point. Scott

Unfortunately, I do not. For most of the time at the Linden St shop, I just kept the hood down and the bright light on. I saw the writing on the wall about a year before Somerville went under. At that point, I was just playing out the string. Oh well Scott

The color is actually Candy Wild Cherry which was a stock color. The fork is a regular Yo fork and not a Big One Inch (oh well). Looks like a nice candidate for restoration. Hopefully the inside of the seat tube is not rusted (common problem on early Fats of all types). I cannot tell from the...