I know, I know! I find it a little embarrassing myself. To colour code that is… 😳

Still I’m looking for grey components (light, stiff, XC use, comparable to Thomson Elite) to complement my stealthy grey DT Swiss M1600 wheels. Not sure if brushed titanium would work. Probably too light. Colour-wise that is.

Looking for stealth grey:
– stem 80-90mm, 25.4, 0-10°
– seatpost 27.2, >360mm
– cranks 175mm (triple should be possible)

The rest of the stuff will be black or metal with odd red decals, forks are white.
Also want to avoid flashy graphics on the parts (wheels and forks will be de-decaled).
All of which will go on a custard-coloured Soul that might eventually turn petrol-blue/green.

The idea is to have a discreetly but nicely matched combo with less stark contrast than the current black bits.

And I don’t mind at all seeing pictures with grey parts for inspiration! 😉

Sunline v1 bars and stem – if you can find them 😉

Hope Gunsmoke stuff?
Grey Charge spoon and Charge chopstick?
The old Michelin tyres.

This edgy bad beast of a stem on my luvly slim and round steel frame? 😯

No way! 😉

Yeah that’s it. I have to say it hurts like **** when you stack and knee it. But it is strong as a strong thing.

Stealth grey seems to have it’s heyday then, hey?! 😐
Cranks could be older XTRs. 😀

Bumpdibump…

Odi lock on xtreme grips and fat Albert 2.4 tyres both in grey

😉

Hm, I see myseld defaulting to carbon stem, post, bars.
Not really grey but at least not pitch black either.

Bumpdibump…

Sunline are a bit odd in that the finish to their grey V1 range is different depending on which item you have; I tried to get a matching finishing kit and failed miserably.

Their bars look shot peened, the stem is a smooth anodized finish and the seat post is different again with tiny rings.

You could go wild on Hope Gunsmoke kit:
Stem
Seat clamp
Floating rotors
Brake reservois covers
Brake piston caps

And ODI grips with grey lock ons

Except that Hopes Gunsmoke is more Blue than Grey, i know as i have it

Hope Gunsmoke is more like “Mk3 Escort with dodgy valve stem oil seal”-smoke

Picture 024 by pten2106, on Flickr

You could use whatever kit you like & get anodisersteve (from here) to re-anodise them for you. He did a great job for me.

And ditto the Sunline Stem comment above, I caught a nasty gashed knee from mine the other night.

While Hope’s blue-ish gunsmoke might work with the tbc later blue-green colour of the frame it’s not going to match well with either the current custard nor the stealthy grey rims AND the seatpost comes in black only…

So let’s google anodisersteve and if he can due a true gunmetal colour or such like and how costly it is because if it starts to get a little more complicated/silly I will just default to good old black and happily live with some minor miss-matching of some sort…

xtr960’s would probably be right – I’ve them on my Ti frame.

And my old SDG I-Beam post was almost ‘alloy’ coloured as the black had come off – maybe just buy one and sand the paint off?

yep, XTRs very stealthy! maybe I’ve got to look 2nd hand to:
– find finishing kit from suppliers that tried to jump on the XTR-grey bandwagon in those years
– or abrased former black components

🙂

Steves work http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/anodising-2

Thanks for the link!

Funny enough my M975 XTR brakes have a blueish-grey coating similar to Hope’s gunsmoke… 😕
But they will go anyway. No good travel or bite point adjust.

i’ve got answer pro taper bars on my merlin, supposedly in titanium colour, but they’re not quite spot on. suitable for your purposes, though.