That Colnago above is a beaut. Mines an understated blue and tanwall affair
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As ever I’m gobsmacked, and TBH thinking the whole thread might just be an elaborate joke, that anyone gives a nanoseconds thought to what colour their bike should be.
Yeah,a bit like worrying about what shirt to wear at a climbing wall ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃👍
I'm not especially fond of all black, but black with some highlights looks very good. I like the Colnago, but I'd like it wven more if the decals were coloured. Black decals on black is a bit meh....
For skinny tube bikes, more block colours for me.. I don't like skinny tubes and busy patterns.
I'd normally go with as neutral, inoffensive colours as possible, generally grey or black, as I've found bikes/frames easier to sell that way.
But my current bike is the opposite, mainly because it's a keeper, and also I liked the colour. Wife thinks all bikes should be as bright as possible for visibility on the road.
From a time when bling was in
Bling is always in 😉
Black...
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The Colnago of course 🙂 Tbh my Enigma Etape is ace to ride, but the Colnago is so much faster to ride. The Time is stripped and in the loft, parts all sold off. I will never sell it we have been through too much now.
The Colnago I love the black decals tbh, but then I would love a Mapei coloured one also ... I will check with the wife and see if she will let me...
My point is I dont think the Time looked like a 17 year old bike, I think black (especially matt black) is good for that.
Ah I thought the Mapei one on WW was yours as well!
I was thinking maybe colourful bikes are harder to sell on? A few people on here say they have colourful bikes because they were a bargain which kind of points to that. I’m a born and bred mountain biker and have a brightly coloured bike because again it was in a sale with 50% off. I didn’t even consider that a lot of roadies belong to clubs and wear colourful kit so don’t want it to clash with their bike.
Yeah,a bit like worrying about what shirt to wear at a climbing wall …
Don't recall asking advice on the shirt colour.... 🤔
I don't bother taking photos of my black bikes, but the black road bike in particular is my most ridden bike, probably because of the mudguards and the cheap, Putolined drivetrain, there are no conditions I won't ride it through. If I only had one bike it would probably be black.
(oh and yes, the pink one was 50% off when I bought it).
i came here looking for jazzy pics of road bikes... i wasnt disappointed.
I do like a Ti bike, and course matt black bits 🙂
Funny think is my favourite bike is my Clockwork
I love riding it and love just looking at it with a cuppa in my hand. I even had a German dude stop me on the top of a Swiss mountain for a chat about it. We were the only two with HT's in a sea of £8k+ Full-suss bikes
My Project One Emonda SLR….love the chameleon colour scheme on this….
And a my old black bike which I loved…..
I had a Cannondale Supersix Black Edition was another great bike. I’d not hesitate to buy another.
I was thinking maybe colourful bikes are harder to sell on?
From experience, yes they are, also any anodised parts (any colour). I guess they aren't necessarily just harder to sell but it's a combination of less value or longer sale time in my experience.
I was thinking maybe colourful bikes are harder to sell on?
Who cares about resale? I'd rather ride a bike I like than one that might "hold its value", but then I tend to keep a hold of my bikes for quite a while.
I don't think I've ever bought a bike where I had a choice of colour...
Whilst I've definitely ruled out certain bikes from any potential shopping short list if I didn't like the colour scheme, once I've decided on the bike I want to buy, it's then down to whatever the manufacturer has available. I'm usually too impatient to consider a custom-build or custom paint job so just get whatever is available first.
When I bought my Giant TCR, the previous model year was a gorgeous blue so was slightly disappointed when it was out-of-stock so ended up with the next model year in, what I thought, a bland red colour but, since then, many people have complimented the colour of bike. So I guess my taste is questionable.
When I bought my Giant TCR, the previous model year was a gorgeous blue
Just missed out on a lovely blue Basso, the alternatives were black or white 😭
Will go for white and just try to accessorise tastefully. Oil slick everything 😉
Colourful always wins. Always.
Always any colour you like so long as it's not black. Black bikes look a lot heavier than they are, they look old enough to have come out of the Ark, and they're just drab and boring. Especially with black wheels and black groupsets (making me yawn just to think about it). The world is in full technicolor, why buy things that look joyless and dull when you have a full spectrum of colours to play with?
And don't get me started about black decals on black framesets!
Bright frame and all black components 👌
Maybe with contrasting bar tape.
I tried the contrasting bar tape….didn’t work with my rather poor attempts!
I went from zesty green:
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Which I loved, to black with a couple of highlights;
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Non-cyclists like the colour mismatch with the bar tape, the roadies definitely not.
Pure black is boring, needs a little highlight somewhere.
My Canyon Aeroad with a bit of contrasting colour, I don’t think the contrast worked, prefer it all black in the picture I posted a few posts above.….
And another one of the Emonda P1 in the sun…..
And this was a nice bike, hired it for a week in Girona….black and green contrast worked I thought…
My bit more colour oriented fixie 🙂
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Black bikes look a lot heavier than they are, they look old enough to have come out of the Ark, and they’re just drab and boring. Especially with black wheels and black groupsets (making me yawn just to think about it)
My road bike is logo-free matt black with matt black logo-free wheels and blackwall tyres, black-taped black bars
Groupset's dark grey though - you know, to cheer it all up a bit - and the saddle has some pink stitching !
I used to have a planet-x that was a lovely sort of 80s Gios blue. That was pretty
I went black and white.
I do like that Colnago @Zerolight
You went with SRAM Red rather than Campag though?
And @Plus-One that’s a cool looking bike, but makes my back twinge looking at the saddle to bar drop!
I can't imagine caring! I bought mine because it was a carbon endurance bike with mudguard mounts and it was in stock. It's black and white and looks good like all new bikes do.
You absolute tart 😉
Definitely pic #1 for the Aeroad, always liked the look of those frames in black and I’m a sucker for tan walls
My main / summer / fast road bike is very black, but also orange
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Son No.1's is one of the brightest things on the planet with a combination of a Belgian blue frame, and Fulcrum wheels with red & white graphics
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I tried the contrasting bar tape….didn’t work with my rather poor attempts!
The green's just a bit too different to the downtube stickers, would be great otherwise.
Are those all your current road bikes or some old ones?
@chakaping - the chameleon Emonda SLR and the Domane with the green bar tape are all that remain. Bar tape is now black.
The Domane is my winter bike. It’s from 2017, done a fair few miles and isn’t in great condition…..looking for a gravel bike to replace it. I’ve done a lot of off-road riding on that bike (with 33mm CX tyres).
The white emonda is my old race bike, it’s got the naff wheels on it in that pic due to it being spring and for crit racing I preferred the aluminium braking strip, I also had the Aeolus carbon wheels that didn’t brake particularly well in the wet….or dry, but they looked good.
The Aeroad is probably the best bike I’ve had. The rim brake Emonda SLR was just over 6kgs, Dura Ace with the 1300g wheels. But the Aeroad just always felt fast and fun. Weight wise, it was just over 7kgs in a size small with 50mm wheels. Slightly heavier with the 60mm Reynolds. Back in 2018 I was browsing the Canyon site, there was rumours about a new Aeroad but nothing confirmed, I noticed they had reduced the rim brake models from £4400 to £2700. Snapped one up! Now the disc brake version of that Aeroad (CF SLX with Di2) is £6500.
Have to admit I never found the black Aeroad boring to look at, but I thought the same with my old Supersix Black Edition. Id have both of those bikes again if I could. (I don’t mind rim brakes on a dry weather bike)
But the Aeroad just always felt fast and fun. Weight wise, it was just over 7kgs in a size small with 50mm wheels.
(apologies, massive hijack) Interested in this, as a heavy guy who enjoys chasing times on flat twisty roads AND on climbs, I'm still torn as to what wheels to upgrade to.
I like my shallow section Fulcrum Racing 3s so my heart says go for the carbon equivalent Racing 0s, maybe gain some stiffness and a useful weight saving.
Heart also says that aero wheels would probably be faster but bike might not feel as responsive or fun through the punchy twisty stuff?
Could you put your finger on why the Aeroad felt more 'fun'?
@chakaping – the chameleon Emonda SLR and the Domane with the green bar tape are all that remain. Bar tape is now black.
Makes sense. I thought that shed must be a bit of a Tardis if not.
The Emonda is beautiful, do you find it's much slower on the flat than the Aeroad?
The Aeroad was fun as it was great for the type of riding I did, I would do chain gang rides where we would be averaging over 25mph for 20/25 mile rides. This involved all sorts of terrain, flat through to rolling countryside hills. It just always made me smile while riding and look forward to going out on it.
I remember my old race bikes (Emonda and Madone), never gave me that same sort of feeling.
The Aeroad also climbed fine. It was comfortable to ride, but it was undoubtedly quick.
I did a load of testing at my local closed circuit crit course. I mean a load!!! It’s generally a smooth circuit with a single small rise, followed by a fast downhill then straight, shaped like a kidney bean. The Aeroad with 60mm wheels and 25mm tyres was my fastest combo. Wasn’t much in it with regards to 50mm or 60mm wheels. And my recordings were purely non scientific, it was just me trying to look at what was fastest for me for race day. The Aeroad was significantly faster than the Domane in its normal guise (28mm tyres but same make as on the Aeroad and 40mm wheels).
My current Emonda has 60mm and 38mm wheels, both are very light, the 38mm being about 1350g and 1600g for the 60mm. For disc brake wheels this is pretty good. I only ride the 38mm’s, but that’s because I think they look much better. If I was racing again I’d be on the 60mm for pretty much all courses.
Solo rides from my front door, I have a 12 mile section that the Aeroad was just awesome on. Very fast twisty roads, slightly downhill. It was just a dream on that bike.
My superlight Emonda felt responsive initially, eg, from first pedal stroke. But it didn’t have the same sort of fast flowing feel as the Aeroad. It’s all perception as the speeds were all so close together to not really be noticeable.
If you want out and out speed for generally flatter courses/routes then I’d go for 60mm wheels. I have quite a lot of wheels ranging from 35 through to 60mm, in my opinion on non aero frames 40mm is a good look, 50mm starts to notice performance improvements and 60mm look like a dogs dinner but notice the bigger performance benefits.
Just to add though, my Bontrager 60mm wheels handle winds really well. My Reynolds were OK in the wind, but had other issues….The Cannondale wheels felt like wrestling a tiger in the wind. Really wasn’t impressed with how they rode.
@w00dster yeah - I'd have loved Campag, but I already had eTap RED groupset and I like it a lot, so couldn't justify the change. Similarly, a pair of Campy wheels would have been nice, but the Zipps are great value for money and I already had SRAM everything else. So yeah, not a very conventional C64. Campag EPS will be an upgrade in a couple of years, maybe.
