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Chap over on another forum posted a thread about a respray he was asked to do.
[url= http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/ipb/index.php/topic/359733-just-painted-a-5k-mountain-bike/ ]Could the customer not have asked for something more interesting?[/url]
As you can see, I linked to a chap on the [url= http://www.timetriallingforum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=61644 ]time trialling forum[/url] who has been doing something [i]much[/i] more exotic.
The black one's nice
Looks better than Hora's matt alu Specialized.
will anyone notice when its covered in shit
The black looks better than that tacky time trial bike.
I like black bikes a lot. I'd love a matt black frame with gloss black decals on it. 🙂
I find black to be an uninteresting colour for bike frames but there's a lot of them around so I appear to be in a minority. Even one of my bikes is black, but it'd have cost me a couple of hundred quid to get it in a more interesting colour so I guess that shows how much my aesthetic principals are worth.
Still it seems odd that the kid wanted a unique look for his bike so he picked... black.
i love really outlandish colours for bikes (like my day glow kawasaki green duster). someone put up a pic here a while ago of a spesch downhill bike that was multicoloured dayglow.that was a colourscheme and a half.i'm afraid that white one leaves me cold 😐 (and what if they get caught in a freak snowstorm 😉
Back in the mid 80's I black Hammerited a road bike and thought it looked the bolx. - Obviously it wasn't but such are the joys of ignorance in youth. 🙄
If I was going to pay for a respray I'd definitely go with something visually appealing and interestingly a quick [url= https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=specialized+demo+8&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=8Ox&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=QTW9T8a-CcXY8gOm35g8&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CGwQ_AUoAQ&biw=1328&bih=1054#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=zlc&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=specialized+demo+8&oq=specialized+demo+8&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.12...0.0.0.47438.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0.-7xNwrxzggQ&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=d9ba844bfa470a63&biw=1328&bih=1054 ]Google image search[/url] has quite a few black frames.
The frame looks fine now for a boring satin black but will chip like mad when being used on the trials! I would of used powder and not solvent stuff! Good look though!
Daft colours and clashing colour combinations are the way forward.....
luminous green frame with luminous orange rims....mmmmmm
homage to Shaun Palmer?
if horribly misdirected...