Do you colour match grips and stem?

How colour coordinated are you?
Ive got a blue bike, white RS forks.
New carbon bars.
About to buy new stem and grips. What colour though?
#firstworldproblems

No. Its a bike.

I’d say stem should match seat post unless it’s a dropper. Grips can pick up on bike colour. Bar colour also has to be considered.

No
Colour match grips and saddle!!!

My saddle is white(ish) charge spoon. White grips? (dirt magnet) and black stem?

yes they’re both black

Yes in that they are black as is the saddle. On one bike I have gold bars but the other has black. There is a theme here !

Mostly black bike. Brown grips, brown saddle.
Hideously uncolour- coordinated rider.
Make that, hideously uncoordinated rider.

They’re colour matched alright – black!

no, but on one bike grips match my seatpost (lime green ESI grips with green aerozine seatpost) with a black stem.

Yes but it was pure luck that they are both black

We are agreed chaps that “match” means “identical” (which can work) not “close enough that a 5 year old would call them the same name” (which never does), aren’t we?

So, say, a set of Hope’s spangly bits, all made by them, in their purple – that’s a match.

But will you colour co-ordinate your outfit with the bike?

If no – not worth the effort.
If yes – you need to get out more.

no – should i?

I think coloured (anodised) stems (or bars, but probably not both) work ok with raw frames when you can match a few anodised bits.
With a strong colour frame, I wouldn’t personally. Grips are ok.

I struggle to colour match my clothes if I have to attend a smart occasion, so no chance on my bike 😉

Is this a metaphor?

Whatever the colour matching policies were at your golf club,

probably still apply to your bicycle…

or whatever fad you pick up next…

Some very subtle bits on my DH and trail bike.

DH bike has various anodised blue parts

Trail bike has various anodised red parts

Yep – black and black.

It’s a bike – stop fretting and ride it. Once it’s covered in seasonal filth it’ll all look the same anyway!

#haveawordwithyourself….

But they are new shiny bits and there is too much choice.

youre all wrong – you remember teddy boy contrasting luminous socks?

this should be replicated with grips! pink one end, yellow the other.

Tried to do a matchy build this time, but orange ano appears to have a massive colour variation so I won’t bother again.

parts that are allowed to be colorfully anodized….

Headset
Stem spacers
Top cap
Seatpost clamp
Quick release skewers (if you still have them)
Floating rotor spider
bore caps
Lock on grip clamps
valve caps
any bolts

anything else is to large and will look gash
I did it with hubs on one of my bikes and have regretted it ever since

My bike is gloss black with orange & electric blue detailing. It has orange grips, a custom
Fizik which is black with orange segments, orange top cap, orange seat clamp, orange chain ring bolts and a black stem to match the black seat post

A bit of bling is never too bad! Just not OTT! I’ve got a blue hope stem. Renthal bars on black grips with blue lock ons to go with my blue lapierre.

Grips are black, any other colour is an abomination. 🙂

I’ve just fitted some lovely white RF grips to ano blue bars.

It’s looking good as dont mind them getting tad dirty white

nope – black and black 😉

They are not matched. They’re just coincidentally both black, because any other colour is stupid (other than maybe raw silvery colour).

everything else on both main bikes is black (incl. frame), except for XT cranks which are silver. But I’ll replace with black.

stealth ftw. esp the one that’s matt black frame

Colour, on a bike? How flamboyant.

🙂

That Dialled looks depressed!

Understated 🙂

Stealth black on stealth black bandit

Mine are colourmatched in as much as they’re all the only colour grips and stems should ever be

Matching should be a subtle compliment, in the right tone not just a similar shade and used sparingly. Black always wins, stanchions (dropper, fork, shock) should be the same anodise. None of this Kashima fork, TiNi shock, black ano dropper thankyouverymuch.

My grips match my soul, my bars match my stem (pro FRS with a subtle pattern resembling gritstone). Polished alloy can be a nice compliment to a build, again used sparingly and spread out.

Less is more, or clash the thing to death. Or black.

you massive slagz

Grips with seat
Stem/bars with post
Seat clamp with spacers or headset
Hub with hub

Ginger pubes and beard despite brown hair.
But now with age the grey flashes in my beard match the grey flashes in my hair, so it worked out well in the end.