both suck. sorry

Red at a pinch

double post

Paintwork on those things scratches *really* easily, therefore raw wins for me.

Possibly swapping my 575 for a blue tracer tomorrow, wish it was raw. Thinking nitromorse 😯

"ohhh baby i like it rawww" to quote O.D.B.

My bike is a combination of those two colours and I like the red half better. Grey/silver is just a really bad colour.

TheSwede – the blue ones are loads nicer than raw!

Disagree I think the blue is too '2009' (i.e. a fashion colour). It'd never be Yeti blue (classy).

Raw is distinct.

Love the way that everyone voting for raw justifies the choice on the basis that the red paint will scratch really easily and look shite.

As opposed to just a half finished job with no paint that looks shite from the word go! 😀

Two very good friends of mine have had six intenses between them. Two cracked in various places and the remaining four eat bearnings like they were cake. Seriously, they spend upwards of £60 per bike every six months. Part of that is because they insist on jet washing their bikes every single time they ride them. The other part is that the frames are so far out of line that the front wheel is in a different county to the rear one!

RAW.
Red is so 1990's

Raw allways looks a bit toys-r-us-bike.

Works red looks fabulous in real life – I'd go with that. You wont notice the scratches when it's covered in mud like a proper mountain bike should be.

Red – looks aggressive

Raw seem unfinished. If it was polished tho…

People who can't make up their own mind should be shot, or burned, or cut up into tiny pieces, or drowned, or crushed … bloody hell, I can't decide. Can someone do it for me please.

+1 RED

Thanks for all your kind words!

I'm thinking red as I'll probably not actually end up selling it and getting the 2011 as planned …

Red is faster 🙂

psss, i too like blue, but the red's a bit lush.

Anyway, why so many disparaging remarks about the Tracer?

I know the early ones sort of er..snapped but the revised rear triangle sorted that!

I'm always intrigued why some people are almost aggressive on their dislike of a particular bike etc..

Well it turned up today.

Works red really does look lovely in real life although I think it’s a Marmite colour!