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Mrs Beanz is fancying a new 5 - but cant decide on the colour....Powder Blue and Apple Green are top of the list....show us your pics to help her decide ( its a woman thing.... ) 😆
Green would be my choice.
Fluro yellow
Powder blue looks best to my eyes.
I got me an apple green with subtle sparkly lacquer, and now I won't even look at another bike.
DISCO BLACK - lovely mmmm.... V chique 😉
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Green. I saw a Blood in the apple green and it was lovely.
Biketreks in Ambleside have a 5 in Orange with Orange rims. It looks great in the shop but I bet it'll be eyewatering out in the real world
Take a look here, several colour matched pictures, though no fluro yellow (well not that my work firewall allows to be displayed)
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/orange-5-show-me-you-colours
Got to say there was a lurid yellow Orange Patriot in Morzine couple of years back and it was lovely if very very loud.
thanks z1ppy.... I thought Id decided on the apple green...and then I saw the powder blue pic on that thread!! ahghhghhhh..... 🙄
More here [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/show-me-your-orange-fives ](clicky).[/url] Including a rare yellow one (not mine).
Powder blue first then green. Mines white. In the future Im thinking of polishing it bare
Blue bikes are quickerer. FACT
Hora,
Be prepared for alot of tlc to keep a polished frame looking good. I just sold my polished Five and whilst it looked awesome, it does need tlc.
The guy who polished it said ideally you need to be polishing a frame that hasn't been prepped for powder coating as that scores the metal quite deeply.
Just something to bare in mind....
My new Five is chrome grey....choosing that colour was made easier by the fact it was the only Five that Leisure Lakes had in stock 😀
Johnny (my Five), used to be 'Lazer Blue' it was a lovely colour, but also the thinnest, worst wearing paint job on any Orange that I've owned.
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So, earlier this summer, whilst I was off my bike waiting for the hole I'd carved out of my leg with Johnny's chainring to heal up (10 weeks on 6 different antibiotics...sheesh!) 🙄 Johnny had a bit of a makeover. Now the pics don't really do him justice, but in the sunshine, it's Disco Inferno time, and I can't wait to see what he'll be like on a night ride! 😈
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Matt black powdercoat, overlaid with holographic sparkly bits that remind me of my Raleigh Chopper's decals. Finished of with a thick layer of clear laquer.
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I wasn't too sure at first, but then the sun shone on him and it made me smile. 8)
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Beagleboy. Err. Hmmm err 😯