Best colour bike paint of all time?

Just a pic and a description and/or RAL code. No multicolour-fade/decal nonsense either!

Raleigh Bronze-Green (metallic). Found on Raleigh Twentys/Stowaways, (early-mid 1970s) . It was that good, it even looks good when frame is old, chipped and rusted. Need to find a code for it when my 29er finally needs a respray 🙂

My son’s Spesh is in Fords Tangerine Scream.

Yep that is a niceone. I quite like the colour of my metallic blue charge duster skinny.

Not my picture!

I quite like the colour of my metallic blue charge duster skinny.

Like my Fleet from around 1997 which I still have (except it’s now black)

PS May well setup an online poll in a few months. Just to make it official 😉

that anodised red on old paces.

Anything klein did.

and molteni orange. edit: **** that what was i thinking bianchi celeste.

Love the Stanton Sherpa green

100 votes for Malvern Rider’s entry.

Nice!

The purple of the first year’s Vagabonds – not so keen on the white, so the suggestion in the Vagabond thread that they’re returning to purple means I might be very tempted to buy a frame set.

And the bronze Croix de Fers

Calibre Dune, surely!

Niner Kermit green.
With red bits.
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The only thing On One ever got right.

That Blue.

You know I’m right. 😉

My 2 favourite colour bikes were both yellow- I got my Mmmbop powder coated Traffic Yellow, and I absolutely love the Dune’s yellow- already loved it even before I discovered it glows slightly in the dark. Black mud on ridiculously bright yellow is just… perfect. Only downside is it’s hard to photograph, direct sunlight makes it glary (and sometimes it comes out pretty green on camera too for some reason)

I got my Hemlock anodised orange. THe colour came out a little more red than I hoped for but that turned out great because it looked so different in different light conditions- in bright sun it was a lively light orange, in twilight it was a really nice flat red. Very fast and furious.

IMG_2742 by Northwindlowlander[/url], on Flickr

Obviously a Hemlock’s not a pretty bike but apparently this is as close as it gets to looking alright 😆

Lovely Northwind.

Orange Neon orange.
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Cotic Gritstone.
2016 01 17 bike 07 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr

Whatever Pantone orange Cotic use for the Rocket.
2017 01 01 bike 01 03 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr

Holdsworth orange team colours.

Jeezuz Malvern that’s a bit demobbed, army surplus, mend and make do.

British Leyland 3 day week green, cream, mustard or brown.

As mentioned above, the green on the Sherpa is gorgeous.

Love the understated tone of the Starling Swoop. It looks great in the flesh and quite different to most ‘showy’ paint. Suits it.

Biased as I have one now but pictures don’t quite do the Shan 917 justice. The colours are really beautiful together.

The stealth black ano on the Banshee spitfire is badass.

Cotic fast red.

That on one blue.

On a skinny steel frame, most pastel colours.

Specialized seqoiua blue.

Marin zolatone grey from the early 90s has to be the best mtb paint.

I still wish I’d kept my cherry red Equilibrium. This one isn’t mine, it’s a pic from google of another forum member’s bike.

^ cherry red mettalic sparkles FTW.
That and nickel silver Oranges with lumi decals.
Kermit green Niners, teal blue Saracen’s with chrome decals and Purple P7’s get an honourable mention.

I went for RAL 6037 Pure Green.

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Surly black 8)

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Candy apple red:

Bontrager did this red, looked almost Orange in those California lust photos from the 90s. Close to BMW Zinnobar.

Or

You’re all wrong. Fat Chance Green/Blue fade

Biased but I quite like my flamboyant
ruby.

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Also the Stanton Switchback in Blue and Slackline Red…Stanton colours are lush.

Maybe Cotic Bfe blue…

Or perhaps Orange apple green, if I’m allowed to say something I’ve owned…

For me, it’s all about 90’s Kona Lava Dome purple.

No multicolour-fade/decal nonsense either!

Well that rules out the official best colours then, orange/white Clockwork, any linear fade pre 95 Klein or the Aqua fade Yo Eddy.

The only possible other choice left is either a neon orange Orange or Grello Yo. 😕

Aah, sussed it…

like the night.

That Coleman’s mustard yellow HT from a few years ago was fab.
Was it a Pipedream frame?

Think the OP would like my Record Ace…

And ‘in its juice’…