[Closed] How much bling is tasteful?

Here's mine

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got gold hubs on the singlespeed I think it's real tasteful, goes with the gold wrap on the bentley 😉

Least than this:

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Titanium Prince Albert 8)

Headset, seat clamp, pedals. Plus maybe hubs or rotors. Gives a few highlights without being too heavy. They must be a good colour match too.

Pedals are almost definitely next

never pedals! it always looks crap/trying too hard, and then looks even crapper once they're scraped to buggery anyway

hubs, headset, seat clamp, maybe BB cups and a few little bits like bolts but go to far and it just looks like a what a 14year old reading MBUK would build 😉

They must be a good colour match too

also, this x10000, nothing worse that 8 different shades of the same colour anodising, or worse still, mixing anodised with painted :vomit:

I was going to go for grips too but that Stanton looks just right with monochrome grips...

If you fancy Orange pedals Carboncycles do Nano style pedals in orange £33

Not sure I agree about pedals - my rocket is entirely black apart from red grips and pedals. Sure the pedals are mostly red now...

Definitely agree that matching is important: the purple skewers on my sons bike don't match the purple used for everything else and it's really bugging me.

hubs, headset, seat clamp, tyre caps. that's it. orange to offset the sky blue.

I went very minimal with mine, hubs, seat clamp, chainring and lock rings. The frame is now grey but I haven't got any recent pictures.

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Not sure I agree about pedals - my rocket is entirely black apart from red grips and pedals. Sure the pedals are mostly red now...

that's different, if they are the [b]only[/b] coloured bits

Less is more, this Sherpa is class

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Whilst a stunning build this switchback smacks of trying too hard...i think it's a bit tacky
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This is too much:

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Who's gonna tell him?

Less is more.
Headset, seatclamp, BB and hubs only.
Anything more will turn your bike into Ratners.

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I initially tried to avoid any colour-combos and went with silver Hope parts, but then the frame I wanted in black sold out and only blue was left, which happened to match my grips. The fact my fork stanchions matched the shock was something I had no control over, but the Kash Money bars were intentional, and sort of work....though I can't say if brown and blue is tasteful 😕
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I added some to the frame and forks myself, with small touches elsewhere.

Grips, headset spacer, valve caps, and some on the saddle in this pic, and pedal end caps.

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Gold rims are where it's at.

Gunmetal n' orange you say?

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(Pedals, one headset spacer, 'bar tape(ish), frame & tire decals, water bottle bolts).

It'll always look shit if they're *almost* the same colour..
Less is more imho.

Orange, gold and red seem to be difficult to colour match.
I had a red anodised Pace RC200 frame that I built up with a smattering of gold and red components, but everything was a slightly different shade 👿

That was a while ago, and some of those red bits along with some other red components have been recycled onto my newish DMR Trailstar frame. Not too blingy but I think it works with the retro paint job.

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Trying to decide myself, stealth or a splash of red.
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Headset, seat clamp, cassette lock ring and the 2 bottle boss screws are red

Apart from their black bits, I reckon most hope coloured finishing kit is gopping.

Gun metal and Orange you say??..

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Note sure it's tasteful but I love it.

I think its fair so that I'm definitely in the less-is-more camp, more can be nice but less is tasteful with ease.

Thanks everyone! (removes orange bars and grips from CRC basket)

Discjockey tres AG2R.

Trouble is, people never know when to stop. This ultimately leads to bike which looks utterly cack.

Hubs, headset and grips on my Tarn (I know the upper headset is black, I've since picked up a matching Hope top, no idea why the previous owner only changed one half!)
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Hubs, grips, pedals, bar graphics and cable outers - I was accused of going to far on this one!

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Trouble is, people never know when to stop. This ultimately leads to bike which looks utterly cack.

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Yep u didn't need to post that. There were already a few on this thread 🙂

As someone who has overdone it in the past I would say less is definitely more.

Ok. This was my one and only coordinated build.

It's raw steel with mango Chris's king headset / clamp and mango profile hubs.

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this is too much!

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I normally refrain from negative comments but I don't get it at all, especially that piss coloured hope stuff! One or two components is fine, but matching everything up just looks hideous and ostentatious imo... each to their own!

I'm a big fan of matching the bars and stem, but hubs and rotors bothers me for some reason.

My high point was cranks/bashguard/pedals/bars, thus:

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That gave way to bar/stem/seatclamp/range-expander, thus:

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But I've now abandoned bling altogether in favour of colour...

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If you have to ask, it's too much 😉

I don't think you can have too many shiny items - but for me there is cutoff in terms of maximum surface area of anodizing of any one item.

These Items are ok.....
brakes or bore caps
rotors
hubs
Bottom bracket
headset /headset spacers /Top Cap (but not all 3!)
Chainring
Seat Clamp
Jockey wheels
bolts (but not all of them)
valves
nobs and levers
Lock on grips
QR skewers

These are definitely not OK....
cranks
bars
seatpost
Pedals
rims
chain
cassette (Eagle looks nasty!)
frame (unless its just the frame and nothing else)

Grey Area....
stems

Historically I have said no to anodized stems but now that we are down to 35mm in length I'm not so sure? Id like input on this matter actually as I am currently on the fence over a black or red Hope stem...

Honestly the decisions I have to make, I don't know how I cope sometimes!!

Big Dummy's Chromag makes me want to eat Fox's Party Rings.

on my all black 2016 Arkose I've so far swapped the stem cap, QRs, seat-clamp and jockey wheels for red anno.
I might get some wheels built up with red hubs, and maybe do the headset when the time comes, but would definitely leave it at that - less is more.

Bit of orange is alright me thinks...

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Historically I have said no to anodized stems but now that we are down to 35mm in length I'm not so sure? Id like input on this matter actually as I am currently on the fence over a black or red Hope stem...

I'm in favour, but I'd back off having a matched headset. My brown Chromag above with the red stem had a black faceplate. Chromag were just doing them like that at the time, which seemed to be a rather good compromise to me. I'm not sure I could be bothered to buy two stems to achieve the effect (and Thomson did coloured faceplates on black stems at one point, which looked naff).

Agreed - the Thomson face-plates were a daft idea! My Headset is an integrated one so its hidden and I'm not running any spacers...so maybe the tiny stem moves into the circle of trust??

Personally (and after all; it's a personal decision) I think there are 3 camps that one can go for

1. Colour (see BD's chromag)
2. Stealth/monochrome (all black, or single colour frame, everything else black)
3. Few bits of bling on an otherwise mono colour frame, say headset and hubs, or brakes and BB shell.

I think the bike with matching Hope "parts-bin rummage" is the worst look.

This bike sums up my feelings on 'colour coordinated' bikes.

(Not mine, but the owner is very proud of it, each to their own)

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