Ted Tanouye and Alan Kang are polar opposites, but that doesn't prohibit either of them from working together. In fact, they are powerhouse players on a killer team - like Kobe and Shaq once were (okay bad analogy). In any case the fruits are delicious.

From ripping down steep slopes in the world class San Gabriel Mountains, to camping endless days with his sleeping bag and bike in the gnarliest of jeep trails at Dusy-Ershim, CHUMBA's founder Ted Tanouye has spent much of his life in the most extreme terrain you can imagine. So when Ted, the product of an aerospace engineering family, set out to build bikes in 1993 while risking everything, his uncanny passion shaped the indestructible character and high performance quality of the CHUMBAs you see today.

CHUMBA offers a finely-tuned chassis that affords our national championship winning racers the thrill of fearlessly owning any course they're riding on. But it doesn't end there. Every CHUMBA is the culmination of the technology we've developed through years of racing, testing, and research and development. Now you can embarrass the trails you'dve never otherwise reached, and dance through the most serious danger your daring side can muster.

Ted is the quiet, dangerous brain-child. He is every bit the stereotypical mad scientist - except that he's a tall, handsome quietly aged Asian guy. TRUST me though, the OBSESSION and MADNESS are still there. Alan is the enthusiastic A.D.H.D kid that the teacher sneeringly told out of frustration "You need a constructive outlet for your energy!" So he finally found one. Alan is the apocalyptic angel, paled-white rider proclaiming the everlasting gospel of Tanouye-ism with the sound of a trump, ushering in with fierce destruction the end of the old era.

If you write off a CHUMBA frame based on how they tip the scales, you've just written off a level of superior performance that simply cannot be quantified by anything other than experience. And oh yeah, GOOD RIDDANCE! Although they didn't end up letting me write the content on the www.chumbaracing.com website, I still hold a special place in my arsenal for them and their frames. Next time Alan, you should know better. I need to be your content guy. (You should let them know . . . in case they don't already get it.)

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