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I'm leaning towards yellow or another colour? Ideas- inspiration please 🙂
[i] yellow and keep the rear swing arm brown[/i]
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Orange. All of it.
Abit like this?
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Yellow, but make sure all the parts are black.
The powdercoaters also have gold instock. Bling bling.
What about purple?
Or clear coat? I think one of those speshes would look bob on in a raw finish.
I_ache has a raw one- nice. Inspired me to raw' my Enduro. I want something different this time.. That orange frame above is lovely though.
Nah. Purple is where you need to be with this one.
Get a 2 tone purple like a TVR.
Heres another STW'ers old one?
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For me, the swing arm has to be black on this short of shape.
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Can't find a purple one..
Blue, definitely blue.
and sparkle top coat
ps top blue is sky blue 5015 not baby blue
RAL 5024
Pastel Blue is lighter (if you wanted a more 'baby' blue?
An orange Orange 🙂
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You get a NOS frame and then powdercoat it? Bonkers 😉
NOS?? Is that like Fast n Furious living one 1/4mile of singletrack at a time?
Have you seen the colour it came in though...nice frame...challenging brown with wierd patches 😐
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Wouldn't you be best asking the next owner what they would prefer 😀
play Russian roulette with a box of smarties to pick your next colour
Does it matter what it looks like?
Higs
(one-time owner of a Whyte JW-4)
Don't you bloody dare have your bike powder coated the same colour as mine!!!
Do it!
And then buy a waterprrof and camelbak the same colour as binners, too.
Don't you bloody dare have your bike powder coated the same colour as mine!!!
So its orange then!
Looks like it'll have to be! Actually.... I think that frame would look nice matt black! Or a deep grey? But with a black swing arm
Crikey I have just been referenced twice in this thread. The baby blue Enduro is my old 05.
Before I rawed my current frame it was the same poo brown as horas SX, not nice. I was thinking about having it coated battleship grey with a heavy metalflake, I now don't think that would work. I was also thinking about doing it fluro orange or yellow, there is so many different shapes in that frame I think it would look great. A nice deep Cadburys purple would look good too, possibly with a metalflake clear cote over the top.
Just for TBC here is my raw 06 Enduro.
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Yellow for me, there was a yellow demo enduro at my LBS back in the day I was very tempted by. Since it is you though Hora I would suggest whatever colour is currently in vogue as you will be selling it soon. 🙂
If you had avoided turd brown in the first place?
I like the frame but there wasnt one cheep' in a different colour
Chemical dip to the metal and just ride it?
I agree with i_ache . That's a great looking bike.
Orange.
Though ^^that raw looks cool^^
Raw is nice however its a pita as you need to keep polishing and I never wash or clean my bikes.... 8)
I never polish mine, and rarely clean it. It has been like that for nearly 2 years now and still looks fine. It was a real PITA, that paint was thick!
Agree, my old Enduro took a while on to remove the paint - in the end I went to professional strippers!
Hmmm raw.
Raw..
Why not? I mean it's surely simple to do, effective, you loose some weight out of the frame, a beadblast will cost what £20.00 or so, then new stickers £20.00.. if you add paint to that it'll be surely another £150.00 or so..
Raw and White forks.. like the one ^^^^up there^^^^ possibly a black swingarm, or how about a blue one, Raw frame and Blue Swingarma dn Blue fork sliders.. or indeed Orange...swingarm and sliders..
Thought you were on the lookout for one of these or is it too small?
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-orange-blood-15-frame-3
IAche wins at Specializeds.
Hora you need to do this. Do not paint it.
We had a chap in last week with a stimpy and it looked ace. He stripped it to raw and it was all de-badged. I wanted it.
I'd have one but that is waaay too small.
Anymore pics I_Ache?
Why not? I mean it's surely simple to do, effective, you loose some weight out of the frame, a beadblast will cost what £20.00 or so, then new stickers £20.00.. if you add paint to that it'll be surely another £150.00 or so..
£150, more like £15, the most I've paid for a good strip and powdercoat is £50 (cheep and nasty from a place that usualy does fence posts was half that).
As for the original question, raw with a black swingarm, but maybe a colour on the rocker to match whatever wheels/forks/finishing kit.
£30 and the place is excellent. Most powdercoaters carry regular stock of black, slate, grey etc with the odd primary and you have to order in if you want a different colour. This place (Stockport) has ALOT.
I was guessing at the cost..
You mean Orange bikes cost.... 😉
TBC thanks *blushes*
No more pics I'm afraid but I should try and get some as a few things have changed since those were taken last year. I might try and give it a bit of a clean and get a few more pics.
It's already the best colour for an SX, I'd have liked mine more if it was brown.
So in conclusion, yellow. Otherwise you're spending money for boring.
I tend to agree on the yellow I originally posted as its close to the SX/orange/yellow frame that I posted up just below. Black swing arm - deep yellow front.
I've done raw and raw can be done again at any point..
£30 and the place is excellent. Most powdercoaters carry regular stock of black, slate, grey etc with the odd primary and you have to order in if you want a different colour. This place (Stockport) has ALOT.
I'm looking to have a frame powder coated & am local to Stockport, would you mind emailing (in profile)the details of the company in Stockport please
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RAL1026, lovely yellow yellow. More or less the same as Hammerite yellow too, if you ever need to touch up.
Very nice- RAL1026 looks alot 'warmer' there than it does on google images. I might go for RAL1023 (closest match that he has in). Very nice.
Aye, I was actually after 1023 but the coater recommended 1026, said it was a bit weak on flats but would look better on the tubes, the shadowing darkens it up nicely. He was quite right, shame he was **** all use at powdercoating really!
I thought 1026 was luminous/fluro? So like the yellow orange use?
The name's luminous yellow, but in the flesh it was just a high gloss.
Got to be honest, I don't have much faith in the coater man so it's quite possible it's some other colour.
It doesn't look like the illuminous 'sheen' of the google images does it? Thats quite a harsh looking yellow. Whereas yours (could be the light) looks warmer and closer to my ral.
Hora, I'm local and looking for ral 1026. Was about to drop it to somewhere I used down south, but from what you are saying, he doesn't have any in?
I'm going to give this place a try I think!
Good timing with the thread mate!!
Comparing it with screenshots it did look very similiar when you were looking at a flat, well lit piece. But o'course screenshots don't always capture finish right, the original colours I picked out for the motorbike were nothing like.
Totally agree. beagle. I'll check (are you localish?). There was another good place on the way to Guisburn, just after Bury as well if thats better?
I'm a few miles south of stockport, but pass up through lancs a lot, if there's a decent one in/near Bury. Could always pop in the markets for some Xmas nuts and black pudding.
Ta Hora.
does anybody know what ral colour codes orange use?
for mandarin orange, or neon orange?
or are they specific to orange?
Pink front triangle. Apple green swingarm?
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