I appear to be creating the ugliest Soul ever…

Oh dear. It all seemed so right in my head

I appear to be colour blind in my mind. Ah well. Looks like the grass needs cutting and the fence painting too.

Stop what you are doing.

Wash the tyres properly. Then carry on. It really isn’t all that bad.

🙂

Nice colour scheme, is it for your girlfriend?

no… there’s definitely uglier…

^^how to ruin what was a perfectly good frame (imho)

It’s for me. I have made it worse and added a red hope bottom bracket. It’s all gone so horribly wrong.

Loving the Orange one,
OP, yours is vile. I’ll take it off you if its a small.

that yellow thing is horrible 🙁

Wowee that yellow is unpleasant. 😎

I am feeling a bit better now 😀

Never mind the Soul – get those slabs out of the lawn – it’s not the 1970s man!

😀

…and get the ruddy strimmer out too.

That isn’t too bad buddy, not great admittedly, but I’m crap with colours. I stopped trying to be clever with colour co-ordination in my motorbiking days of horrible anodised rearsets and matching fairing bolts etc.

Its all about black bits now, boring boring boring but safe, black bits.

Interesting spec on that orange/yellow effort. 40-odd toothed single ring and big burly NP wheels, saddle miles up in the air and no QR, what on earth does it get used for? Strava runs on the local towpath?

OP you should stick as many different coloured bits on that as possible, just go nuts. See if you can find one white wheel or different coloured tyres or something to really annoy the fashion police.

That Pro-flex sticker on your toolbox is on the skew

Stop what you are doing.

Wash the tyres properly. Then carry on. It really isn’t all that bad.

What he said 🙂

Amazing how dried dirty tyres make a bike look bloody horrible 🙂

It’s for me. I have made it worse and added a red hope bottom bracket. It’s all gone so horribly wrong.

lets not forget the green headset, red headset spacers, gold seat qr, yellow cable outers, turquoise bar plugs and cream grips yellow dustcaps…at least your rear tyre valve is lined up with the tyre logo!! 😉

Ditch the turquoise and it’ll be fine.

I’m putting a sdg cow print saddle on it too :-/

Rabbits have been on strike recently so the lawn has got a bit on the long side.

that yellow one needs a crash test dummy on it.
love it.

Blue and gold would have been ok – not the other stuff though.

what was going on in your head?

the nearset i can see to a ‘scheme’ on that bike is rainbow anodising to match the world champs stripes on the forks? Which might be a goer on a white frame.

Go for it … There’s already far too many colour matched/murdered out bikes out there …

Different= Cool 🙂 🙂

Mine was from the era where every new Soul in the world was black with white forks so at least yours is different 😆

White grips when nothing else on the bike is white…. why?

black everything, black, black, black!

It seems like the aesthetics of the grips are inspired by the fence.

Build it, ride it, love it. It’ll be covered in scuffs, scratches and dings before you know it anyway.

Ziptie on some inner tube as chainstay protection and you can called it ‘utilitarian’. It makes no odds when you’re clattering down a hillside at 30mph anyway.

OP that’s amazing! Great example of how to make something look much LESS than the sum of its parts. I generally try to create the opposite.

My sister has a similar talent when it comes to interior design, a master at making a room full of quite nice things look rubbish.

Bless!

Have you tried to match the colours on the bike to the stripes on the forks…or get the forks stickers to match the bike?

It looks quality…as in street 😉

You should see it now. Oh my it is resplendent. What was I thinking.

I would think that a set of stickers on it might help but I’m not sure the guys at cotic would want me labelling it.

Silver seatpost, stem and bars, everything else black, would look great with that frame. You could also do silver hubs and rims. As it is, it’s just a bit of a mess but no worse than lots of other bikes out there.

There are no ugly soul’s imo. Those frames make anything on them look good.Rider included.

middle-aged blokes with geeky hobby tendancies and colour co-ordination eh : ) there’s a reason my bikes have a choice of black or silver for everything including the frames!

If in doubt, black. Trumps colourful every time, always will. I quite like the ‘slung together without a care’ style here though, trying too hard is never very cool.

Do you have any Bacofoil…

Pics of the finished product?

I think you’ve created a masterpiece, it’s like when you sit down to make a perfectly boring painting of a woman and out pops this:

Downside is, everyone will insist you’re insane in your lifetime.

Nothing wrong with it.. Get it finished and ride it 8)

What style are you going for op, Gumtree?

I can see Timmy Mallet on that bike

Just awaiting a shim for the front deralliuer and then it’s complete. I will post up once complete to amuse everyone 🙂