[Closed] How much bling is tasteful?

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Trying to match Trek Volt Green is not easy - especially as the bike has some light blue ish bits of colour on the frame.

My pedals and mudguard are pretty much a match but most anodised blue parts are not the right shade of blue so if I change up my bars and stems it will probably have to be black bits as I dont really want a mis match of blue parts.

Well I've gone the opposite.... bling frame but black parts....

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Things I know
1) Logos/Valves. I was rushing and forgot.
2) Fence/Field. I've already taken it up with the farmer 🙂
3) Red grips. Yeah. I'll be changing those.

Oh and I like that airdrop..

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Blingtastic! Those bottle holders were gold plated from Elite. Problem was with all the rattling the plate came off in sharp splinters which used to cut my fingers to ribbons!

The give me a Crank Boner

DS or NDS?

175mm? Impressive.

I lived through the 90's so can confidently say stop with the bling before it's too late. Blue jockey wheels (with green mech bolts), red/gold/green rasta chainrings (green bolts), blue bolts in every mount hole, gold CND canti hangers, silver bullet bros chain tensioner, green nipples, green dustcaps, red bridge on yellow forks. That said, I do have natural Ti handlebar and seatpost (blue clamp) as well as a natural ti and grey hope hub.
Back then there was no such thing as too many colours!
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Back then there was no such thing as too many colours!

It came back to mind while looking at a new Eagle bike and it dawned on me that the cassette had the same gear on it...!

And I see a bullet-bros chain tensioner. Had one of them too!

It's 22, 34, 46 😯

Yes, the extra size did help a few times and I got into the mid 40mph's once in my dafter days. It's only a 12 at the back though and I have no idea how I let that happen!

I reckon this thread is going to degrade into 90s bike therapy, but here's mine from the same era and I'm proud to call it my own.

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Some items of note:
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[*]Middleburn rings - all different colours of course[/*]
[*]Hope hubs and skewers (blue)[/*]
[*]Ringle bottle cage (green)[/*]
[*]Flite Ti - just look at it :)[/*]
[*]Red riser bar, yellow grips, purple plugs and gripshift grips[/*]
[*]Silly purple "shit collector" on the rear mech. (The bullet bros tensioner had broken by this time)[/*]
[*]Red Ritchey pedals - poor man's SPDs[/*]
[*]Tan tyres. I mean, I actually went into a shop and chose them.[/*]

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For all that, I had a lot of fun on that bike and miss it. I still know where it is. i wonder if they'd let me have it back... 🙂

Now does anyone want a bucket...?

Nice bike! just reminded me I also had the blue pulley on the mech for cable angle (we were so gullible then!).

I never sold mine, I sometimes still ride it. Every time I do there's a bunch of old buggers come over and reminisce with me about Ritchey Logic's 😆

Nice bike! just reminded me I also had the blue pulley on the mech for cable angle (we were so gullible then!).

(Oh, and I forgot the blue, CNC jockey wheels which were uber-bling back then and just as pointless as today!)

That Airdrop would look better with black cranks, I actively dislike coloured Hope cranks they look tacky.

You are bang on with that Solaris Ross, classy.

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