[Closed] Best colour bike paint of all time?

My son's Spesh is in Fords Tangerine Scream.

Yep that is a niceone. I quite like the colour of my metallic blue charge duster skinny.

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Not my picture!

I quite like the colour of my metallic blue charge duster skinny.

Like my Fleet from around 1997 which I still have (except it's now black)

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PS May well setup an online poll in a few months. Just to make it official 😉

that anodised red on old paces.

Anything klein did.

[s]and molteni orange.[/s] edit: **** that what was i thinking bianchi celeste.

Love the Stanton Sherpa green

100 votes for Malvern Rider's entry.

Nice!

The purple of the first year's Vagabonds - not so keen on the white, so the suggestion in the Vagabond thread that they're returning to purple means I might be very tempted to buy a frame set.

And the bronze Croix de Fers

Calibre Dune, surely!

Niner Kermit green.
With red bits.
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The only thing On One ever got right.

That Blue.

You know I'm right. 😉

My 2 favourite colour bikes were both yellow- I got my Mmmbop powder coated Traffic Yellow, and I absolutely love the Dune's yellow- already loved it even before I discovered it glows slightly in the dark. Black mud on ridiculously bright yellow is just... perfect. Only downside is it's hard to photograph, direct sunlight makes it glary (and sometimes it comes out pretty green on camera too for some reason)

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I got my Hemlock anodised orange. THe colour came out a little more red than I hoped for but that turned out great because it looked so different in different light conditions- in bright sun it was a lively light orange, in twilight it was a really nice flat red. Very fast and furious.

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Obviously a Hemlock's not a pretty bike but apparently this is as close as it gets to looking alright 😆

Lovely Northwind.

Orange Neon orange.
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Cotic Gritstone.
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Whatever Pantone orange Cotic use for the Rocket.
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Holdsworth orange team colours.

Jeezuz Malvern that's a bit demobbed, army surplus, mend and make do.

British Leyland 3 day week green, cream, mustard or brown.

As mentioned above, the green on the Sherpa is gorgeous.

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Love the understated tone of the Starling Swoop. It looks great in the flesh and quite different to most 'showy' paint. Suits it.

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Biased as I have one now but pictures don't quite do the Shan 917 justice. The colours are really beautiful together.

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The stealth black ano on the Banshee spitfire is badass.

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Cotic fast red.

That on one blue.

On a skinny steel frame, most pastel colours.

Specialized seqoiua blue.

Marin zolatone grey from the early 90s has to be the best mtb paint.

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I still wish I'd kept my cherry red Equilibrium. This one isn't mine, it's a pic from google of another forum member's bike.

^ cherry red mettalic sparkles FTW.
That and nickel silver Oranges with lumi decals.
Kermit green Niners, teal blue Saracen's with chrome decals and Purple P7's get an honourable mention.

I went for RAL 6037 Pure Green.

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Surly black 8)

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Bontrager did this red, looked almost Orange in those California lust photos from the 90s. Close to BMW Zinnobar.

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Or

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You're all wrong. Fat Chance Green/Blue fade

Biased but I quite like my flamboyant
ruby.

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Also the Stanton Switchback in Blue and Slackline Red...Stanton colours are lush.

Maybe Cotic Bfe blue...
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Or perhaps Orange apple green, if I'm allowed to say something I've owned...
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No multicolour-fade/decal nonsense either!

Well that rules out the official best colours then, orange/white Clockwork, any linear fade pre 95 Klein or the Aqua fade Yo Eddy.

The only possible other choice left is either a neon orange Orange or Grello Yo. 😕

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Aah, sussed it...

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like the night.
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That Coleman's mustard yellow HT from a few years ago was fab.
Was it a Pipedream frame?

Think the OP would like my Record Ace...

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And 'in its juice'...

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In tribute I now ride on of these, which I think is rather fetching.

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'Black Rain' was cool-

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Red. Surely the fastest colour?
Pictonroad, that's my old Bonty. I bought it from Gil M. That's the bike I regret selling....

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My gut reaction was red. Specialized Stumpjumpers or S-Works in red, always good. I'm going for turq. Apart from I kept busting them, I loved my Yetis, so my view is possibly swayed. The photo below is my 575 over 5yrs old so the paint was certainly durable too.

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spesh had a pastel blue stumpy hardtail a few years back, with an orange fork and orange detailing. Beautiful, I just didn't want a stumpy hardtail at the time......

Anything in orange always looks good to me.

I always loved the paint on the Karate Monkey Ops

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And the purple stooge or Genesis Vagabond

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And I really liked the Cotic Matt Duck Egg

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The orange on my Mk2 Solaris.
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Pace Morris Blue here.
Mustard yellow hard tail referred to above - Cotic Custard Yellow?

Travis Brown!

As seen on my Trek 69er

The transparent red on my original dmr trailstar was the nicest single colour I've had. Kona cinder cone from '95 in a Celeste type colour, with bronze bits is a close second....
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If multi-coloured ones are allowed it would be any of the Schwinn homegrown factory frames in black, silver & gold glitter!

Henderson orange, officially "TANGO"
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I change my mind all the time, but currently having trouble seeing past this

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I have a horrible feeling I might end up owning one in the near future... 😕

I like the classic specialized red:

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I always wanted one of them 90s candy red Zaskars with yellow Judys

Best I managed was a rigid outpost in the same colour, then a very fetching blue and yellow Tequesta the year after. Never had a pair of Judys though

Edit - that red BFe though, phwoar. Not seen one of them before, like that a lot.

Any of these 🙂
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Always been a fan of the candy apple reds. But equally I thin splatter needs to make a comeback.
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Must admit to being a sucker for deep bronzes, oranges, fruity autumn colours with depth and sparkle

Last years Raleigh Mustang Comp was an eyecatcher, reminds me of my old Diamondback V-Link in similar orange.

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Loving the apple reds too.

'Just gliding my Candy Apple red, with the chrome - shimmering'
('To Lose la Trek' - Campag Velocet) 8)

Marazocchi Bomber Orange

Not much love for dark-blue-with-white-bits.

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(this is not a claim that my idrive was pretty, but I think it was a good #colorway. Also, mismatched brakes and chainless are definitely going to catch on)

I always wanted one of them 90s candy red Zaskars with yellow Judys

Ha ! I've got one, after 20 years still going strong. Don't have a pic though (and the forks are carbon Pace EVO).

This is gert lush:

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I tried to get somewhere close when I got the dekerf resprayed. Dave Yates' "Flam. emerald", I think. yellow topcoat comes out lovely in the sunshine.

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My fave, (lthough I bought the pink/white/green one..)

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That Cotic red looks great 8)

For me it was the pastel green used by WTB in the late 90s early 00s

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Always loved it. Just had a test frame done in the same green and its lovely with silver components.

May do my Rooster that green too

I like black bikes, but that BFe red posted by dannyh is flippin gorgeous.

I totally love the colour of my Anthem.

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I'm liking this thread.

Dave Yates' "Flam. emerald", I think.

I remember years ago seeing a Yates in what must have been a mix of flam red and green, sort of like the chameleon paint on TVR's - utterly gorgeous.

I'll post this again as all you colour whores need teaching a lesson 😛
Henry Ford knew that was up.
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Chameleon green.

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The "Bass Boat Green" on the Surly Krampus is/was/ lovely...

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Chameleon green

Chameleon because it's yellow?

Another vote for Orange neon orange. It's the main reason my old Five still hangs in the shed. I rarely rude it, but live the colour too much to sell it.

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Haha stupidstu.
Would be funny except it is green!

https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/mtb/spectral/2017/spectral-cf-9-0-ex.html

I mean chameleon as in the colour does change effect in different lighting.

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Brighter the better for me, but, I'm not into colour matching components.

I find Black bikes so boring

Haha stupidstu.
Would be funny except it is green!

https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/mtb/spectral/2017/spectral-cf-9-0-ex.html

I mean chameleon as in the colour does change effect in different lighting.