[Closed] Colour dilemma. Let's see your steel hardtails then

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am thinking about either getting another road bike or upgrading this one to either a soul/ti 456 evo (in stages as am skint).

I have a foolproof method for such situations:

1. Imagine the frame in your mind.
2. Then, imagine the frame painted in each of your shortlist of colours.
3. Pick the one you like most.

It's a bit complicated at first, but I'm sure an intelligent, professional designer like yourself can do it. 😀

Old photo, but still using my candy apple green (?) Genesis

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How about a nice bright blue, Binners? With white and orange [s]decals[/s] stickers?

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As it happens, would be a pretty damned good [s]colorway[/s] paint job, don't you think?

(EDIT: Not actually mine, got carried away and fogot about the original question 😳 )
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Got to be Kermit...

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Black.

I have no imagination.

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Take your pick:

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The black one rode the best, but I don't suppose you care really.

Finally, not a ht mtb, but a hardtail, steel and skinny tubed (and a nice colour):

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Do you know what Flashy? That is absolutely bloody inspired!!! My forks and brakes are white. So I'm thinking Powder blue frame, then get some orange Orange graphics, and a subtle Gregg's logo on the top tube!

I'd never really noticed that Gregg's have the same colour combo as the Gulf GT40's, which everyone knows is the finest spray job ever to grace a car!

You sir are a genius!!! 🙂

We have a winner! 🙂

Further inspiration.

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Or, with white forks

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Fave looking hardtail ever.

luke - munrobiker got a Kona done recently that looks amazing in blue, if you can get it to look anything like this that would be good in my books.

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Binners, the invoice is in the post. Same payment terms as normal.

I'd never really noticed that Gregg's have the same colour combo as the Gulf GT40's, which everyone knows is the finest spray job ever to grace a car!

The only bike I've had resprayed was my Kona Explosif which I got BRG. Sorry, I don't have any photos of that bike 🙁

It's the only custom colour for me.

Gregg's blue for you though I can appreciate...

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Here's mine, always looks reddish in photos, but it's orange, although if it ever needs repainting I think I'd go for powder blue, it just looks so good on skinny steel tubes IMO.

Flashy - the I've ordered the usual Gregg's hamper to be delivered sir 😉

So that's light blue, orange and light green out for my next build then. 😀
Common as muck.

Go on the internet and look for images from the UK handmade bike show, bound to be lots of ideas there

Shand do a bright yellow that looks cool

What colour forks and finishing kit? BRG could look great with white forks as long as it's not all white for everything else..

just go black binners and get some fresh p7 /orange sticker

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That Shan is a bit lovely.

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Not in your shortlist of colours, I know. However, it is skinny tubed steel and powder coated.

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That does look particularly lovely!

Ed - folks and brakes are white. Everything else is black. I'm already thinking a couple of orange anodised bits on a powder blue frame might look quite nice though. And so it begins.....

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Edit: Now I've read the thread, do you want to borrow my sons helmet?

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Cheers Binners. I've always had a thing for powder blue with white forks, so that'd be my vote.

One thing I have noticed on my frame is that the top of the top tube has started to dull quite significantly, is this common with powder coating?

Advocaat yellow is a colour I've always thought would look good with some nice anodised red bits and pieces.

If you go for racing green, may I suggest leaving a white oval on the top tube just ahead of the seat tube junction for a nice bold black font "GB".

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Before I built it.

Thing of beauty

Another possibility would be a nice deep, but metallic chocolate brown with some orange decals.

Stealthy look here...

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I call it 'Trusty Rusty'

My alpine ...

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Raw or lightly tinted (red) lacquer.

Orange used to do a custom colour: sparkle blue, which looks great on a steel hard tail. I know this because I have a P7 in the garage finished in it, but sadly no pics to hand. It's a pale silvery blue, with silver decals.
No pics doesn't help, does it?
Sorry.

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I've just got my two Cotic Soul frames back from powder coating, and one of them is almost this shade of blue (RAL 5015, with a slight metallic effect mixed in).

Thanks to CaptainFlashheart, I'll always know it as "Gregg's Blue" from now on!

The other one is RAL 'Traffic Red', not started building either yet, I'll try and get some photos up soon.

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Used to have a white one. Black is better.

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Matt Black Commencal Absolut

Another greenun'

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Candy Apple Red with silver letter and gold piping

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from the bespoke article...
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I'm quite fond of the blue tinted clear-coat on my Unit-

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Looks great in sunlight.

Just had my Soul powder coated in red sparkle.

Pics will follow when it is built.

If anybody living in the Calder Valley needs a frame powder coating then Chris at Pennine Powder Coating is a good chap. He is half way between Hebden Bridge and Todmorden.

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It's not too late to play is it?

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Just dropped the frame in for powder coating this morning. bmike - I've gone for Ral 5015, or as its now officially known; Greggs Blue. Just need to get some custom, pie-based graphics sorted today, and the Greggs P7 will be a reality 😀

Thanks for all your contributions folks

Anyone recommend anywhere I can get some custom graphics cut?

Looking forward to seeing the results Binners. Get a head tube graphic with 4 square oranges made up as a homage to the inspiration.....

Try [url= http://dirty-customs.co.uk/ ]these[/url] guys. They've offered do sort me out in the past and seem friendly enough.

Cheers mate. I've just mailed them. I best get the artwork sorted. Hopefully I'll have it all back together to christen it at Brechfa next week

I'm having the frame done in matt powder coat, then they're going to shove the stickers on, then coat it in a gloss lacquer. Should look great! 😀

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Damn Flikr account.

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Not mine, stolen from another thread (user epicsteve)but very close and I cannot for love nor money find a photo of mine on the works computer haha!

WackoAK - Thats the cover of my biography 😀

I've done the artwork for the Greggs graphics, which are presently being cut. The frames still at the powder coaters. I'm hoping to have it all back and assembled next week for christening at next weekends away weekend to Brechfa. Will post pictures up when its done

No pics of mine (Genesis Altitude), but it's just red, with a clear lacquer

No decals or 'owt. It would have replacement decals if I'd not lost the vector files that someone did for me a year or so ago. I don't suppose that someone still has them...? There's a pasty in it...

You lost them? They'll be on the laptop at home. I shall dig them out and get them over to you later

Lovely 🙂

Cheese and onion or steak bake? I'll stick it in the post (in a jiffy bag, so it stays warm).

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http://revanchebikeco.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/29er-good-fillets-are-a-thing-of-beauty/

If it ain't brown, then you ain't down

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apologies for light (well, dark) but all I could find - B R G Kona Kilaeua --

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I like the electrical tape reinforced fork crown 🙂

hey! that's finest 'inner tube crud guard' that!

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Orange and blue, always Orange and blue (bars are Orange)....I just wish the forks were white 🙄

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Customer insisted on grey. came out pretty well.
I'd say get sparkles.
I do a matt or glossy clear over the powdercoats.
wears better, and looks better

http://revanchebikeco.wordpress.com/category/mtb/

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Well… its back. Just been to pick it up from it up from [url= http://www.eregcoatings.com ]Ereg Coatings[/url] who have done a bloody fantastic job of it! Acid dipped, then a matt Greggs Blue applied, covered with a high gloss lacquer. You'll have to excuse the crap camera phone pic, which doesn't do it justice

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I'm hoping my custom Greggs graphics will have arrived from Slik when I get home. Plan is to build it up tonight. More photos to follow 😀

nice blue, you got the RAL n.?

Nice 🙂

*cough* genesis decals *cough* Pardon?

Blue! Good choice 😉

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Binners, my old prawn and pickle sandwich, I like that. I like that a lot.

Bright blue? Why yes.
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Old skool bright blue? Yes that too...
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http://www.liteville.de/t/25_66.html
this is useful
http://bmxcolor.narod.ru/
this can be useful
this too.
http://www.fixiestudio.com/

wrote a post on paintjobs for bikes and how to choose them.
http://revanchebikeco.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/bicycle-paint-for-a-columbus-max-fork/
hope it helps someone.
There's a lot of hard bits in building bikes, choosing a good paintjob is damn hard.

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Black.

Bit late to the party.... But brown all the way

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Got this reprinted in red but only to keep it as close to original as possible.

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Red ones go faster. This is known.

My much missed powder coated love/hate.
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