Want A Damn Good Reason To Feel Shitty About Your Classic Fat City Or IF?

This clueless dumbfuck mighta touched it!  Yuck.  That sorta shit don't wash off, and Peter Verdone is really slimy.  Besides being completely ignorant, he seems to be a real asshole.  Melt down your classic bike.  Let it rust.  It's cursed with exceptional American idiocy. 

The Rivendell he hates on so hard is probably owned by a rider who does more miles in a month than that idiot Verdone has logged in his life, since anyone who's ridden a bike for realz knows what works and what is bullshit.  Verdone only knows the bullshit and has no idea about what really works and why.  He's probably a really enthusiastic Trump supporter or rabid fluffer of Ben Carson.  Such is that state of inane America.

Wait, What? How Long Till New Fat Chance Bikes Are Chinese Plastic Garbage?

Made in the same shop in China as 21st century Ibis?  The over/under should probably be weeks not years.  If this unlikely thing gets off the ground at all, I can see a (very) small run of handmade USA steel bikes followed relatively quickly by some generic, overpriced Chinese suspension frames, and then that's that.  No Wicked Fat Chance, no Rear Olive Square, so what's the point?  Now if I could get a really nice steel hardtail, a modern version of a Yo Eddy, in team real wild cherry or some kind of actual fluorescent Grello paint, now that would be somethin'.  But in all likelihood this thing is going to go down like the Off-Road Toad abortion from a coupla years ago.

Of course, Rock Lobster is still in business.  Always has been.  Same as it ever was.

And Strong Frames.

Igleheart.

Curtlo.

Plenty of old-school, never left great builders out there.

And is gonna be Fat Chance Bicycles or Fat City Cycles in 2014?