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  • Powdercoating time… Yellow orange or baby blue?
  • hora
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    Or

    Or

    I’m leaning towards yellow or another colour? Ideas- inspiration please 🙂

    wwaswas
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    yellow and keep the rear swing arm brown

    😯

    Orange. All of it.

    hora
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    Abit like this?

    Rickos
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    Yellow, but make sure all the parts are black.

    hora
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    The powdercoaters also have gold instock. Bling bling.

    ojom
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    What about purple?

    Or clear coat? I think one of those speshes would look bob on in a raw finish.

    hora
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    I_ache has a raw one- nice. Inspired me to raw’ my Enduro. I want something different this time.. That orange frame above is lovely though.

    ojom
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    Nah. Purple is where you need to be with this one.

    Get a 2 tone purple like a TVR.

    hora
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    Heres another STW’ers old one?

    For me, the swing arm has to be black on this short of shape.

    Can’t find a purple one..

    timidwheeler
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    Blue, definitely blue.

    rootes1
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    and sparkle top coat

    ps top blue is sky blue 5015 not baby blue

    RAL 5024
    Pastel Blue is lighter (if you wanted a more ‘baby’ blue?

    xiphon
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    An orange Orange 🙂

    DaveyBoyWonder
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    You get a NOS frame and then powdercoat it? Bonkers 😉

    hora
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    NOS?? Is that like Fast n Furious living one 1/4mile of singletrack at a time?

    Have you seen the colour it came in though…nice frame…challenging brown with wierd patches 😐

    fivespot
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    Wouldn’t you be best asking the next owner what they would prefer 😀

    spawnofyorkshire
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    play Russian roulette with a box of smarties to pick your next colour

    higgo
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    Does it matter what it looks like?

    Higs
    (one-time owner of a Whyte JW-4)

    binners
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    Don’t you bloody dare have your bike powder coated the same colour as mine!!!

    wwaswas
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    Do it!

    And then buy a waterprrof and camelbak the same colour as binners, too.

    hora
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    Don’t you bloody dare have your bike powder coated the same colour as mine!!!

    So its orange then!

    binners
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    Looks like it’ll have to be! Actually…. I think that frame would look nice matt black! Or a deep grey? But with a black swing arm

    I_Ache
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    Crikey I have just been referenced twice in this thread. The baby blue Enduro is my old 05.

    Before I rawed my current frame it was the same poo brown as horas SX, not nice. I was thinking about having it coated battleship grey with a heavy metalflake, I now don’t think that would work. I was also thinking about doing it fluro orange or yellow, there is so many different shapes in that frame I think it would look great. A nice deep Cadburys purple would look good too, possibly with a metalflake clear cote over the top.

    Just for TBC here is my raw 06 Enduro.

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    Bagstard
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    Yellow for me, there was a yellow demo enduro at my LBS back in the day I was very tempted by. Since it is you though Hora I would suggest whatever colour is currently in vogue as you will be selling it soon. 🙂

    Big-Pete
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    If you had avoided turd brown in the first place?

    hora
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    I like the frame but there wasnt one cheep’ in a different colour

    Bagstard
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    Chemical dip to the metal and just ride it?

    Bregante
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    I agree with i_ache . That’s a great looking bike.

    bikebouy
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    Orange.

    Though ^^that raw looks cool^^

    hora
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    Raw is nice however its a pita as you need to keep polishing and I never wash or clean my bikes…. 8)

    I_Ache
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    I never polish mine, and rarely clean it. It has been like that for nearly 2 years now and still looks fine. It was a real PITA, that paint was thick!

    hora
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    Agree, my old Enduro took a while on to remove the paint – in the end I went to professional strippers!

    Hmmm raw.

    bikebouy
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    Raw..

    Why not? I mean it’s surely simple to do, effective, you loose some weight out of the frame, a beadblast will cost what £20.00 or so, then new stickers £20.00.. if you add paint to that it’ll be surely another £150.00 or so..

    Raw and White forks.. like the one ^^^^up there^^^^ possibly a black swingarm, or how about a blue one, Raw frame and Blue Swingarma dn Blue fork sliders.. or indeed Orange…swingarm and sliders..

    nick1962
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    Thought you were on the lookout for one of these or is it too small?
    http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-orange-blood-15-frame-3

    ojom
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    IAche wins at Specializeds.

    Hora you need to do this. Do not paint it.

    We had a chap in last week with a stimpy and it looked ace. He stripped it to raw and it was all de-badged. I wanted it.

    hora
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    I’d have one but that is waaay too small.

    hora
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    Anymore pics I_Ache?

    thisisnotaspoon
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    Why not? I mean it’s surely simple to do, effective, you loose some weight out of the frame, a beadblast will cost what £20.00 or so, then new stickers £20.00.. if you add paint to that it’ll be surely another £150.00 or so..

    £150, more like £15, the most I’ve paid for a good strip and powdercoat is £50 (cheep and nasty from a place that usualy does fence posts was half that).

    As for the original question, raw with a black swingarm, but maybe a colour on the rocker to match whatever wheels/forks/finishing kit.

    hora
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    £30 and the place is excellent. Most powdercoaters carry regular stock of black, slate, grey etc with the odd primary and you have to order in if you want a different colour. This place (Stockport) has ALOT.

    bikebouy
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    I was guessing at the cost..

    hora
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    You mean Orange bikes cost…. 😉

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