A frame of mine is off for a spruce up soon and after amassing a number of red anodized parts to accompany the build I’m now undecided on what colour to go with for the frame 😕

My sensible head says black, but pastel blue is also a runner.

Any thoughts?

Any pics for inspiration 🙂

Cheers,

AMk

Pastel blue and red is sure to look rubbish! Black is a solid choice although a little boring. How about gritstone like the Cotic BFe? I’m planning on getting some red parts when I get mine 😛

Black
White

obvious choices but good contrast to set the red off.

silver and black

a little peek 😉

Silver, raw or polished

A few red accents on my bike – mainly on the frame at the moment, but the wheels have red spoke nipples, the headset has some red bits on it and the fork does too…..

Not sure whether to get anymore red bits or not. The red on the frame is a dark red, rather than the bright postbox red that most anodised bits are…..

A few too many spacers in that last shot. The shop that rebuilt my bits onto the frame didn’t put them back right…

Less is always more. There have been some right horror shows in the past.

Is the Hope silver stuff ie silver seat post clamp, new tech 4 calipers etc. are they actually anodized silver or are they bare ally and therefore could be anodized to what ever colour you fancy ?

Looking at doing similar thing to that of ‘letmetalktomark’ but in reverse, I’ve got the frame colour and wanted to get some bits anodized to match or at least co-ordinate in some manner.

White or silver are the best choices. http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12728310 Not mine, but a nice looking bike.

http://photos-by-martin.digimig.co.uk/c1897421.html

kudos100 – that link demonstrates my point entirely. Way too much, ends up looking tacky.

Why can’t people quit while their ahead?

MArtinxyz – password protected

A brown frame would look good with red bits, like last years pitch pro

Black with some red bits…
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kudos100 – that link demonstrates my point entirely. Way too much, ends up looking tacky.

I like it, apart from the red cables. Wouldn’t do it myself, but white, gold and red looks awesome.

If your getting it powder-coated have a look at chrome silver! I have one that came up a treat…
Can’t show you as the camera broke and I an too broke to buy a new one 🙁

Hope will custom ano their levers and the brakes themselves. Look at my post history and have a look at my Helius AFR. It’s raw with red ano and black kit and it has custom black ano Hope brakes on it.

http://goo.gl/klk0 has pictures

that orange is gipping ….

Here is mine:

It has to be black, White or raw

Does a red hope seat post collar count?

Candy Apple Red – Tis truly the most wonderous colour.

That Intense Bike (see photo above) is quite possibly Candy Apple Red -difficult to say from just a photo.

Not sure if red stem is too much.
Not normally this clean.

I did have red with red bits but a new black with red bits is being born in the next 24 hrs!
It was like this…

Here you go, this should statisfy your desire:
(It’s a solid flair, powder coated in ‘Howies Blue’

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hmmm, probably too subtle with the red 😉

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Really need to take a better picture of it but my race bike:

OOh and it in use… really brings the reds out:

Subtle redness.

Pastel Blue and Red you say……..

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Another blue with a few red bits

Black with a few red “accents” (red bits on the Elixir CR brakes, red valve caps, red cassette spider and ermmm some red writing!)

Black/silver SIDs going on shortly.

Retro polished with red:

Light blue with red:

Black (carbon) with red:

Black, Ti and red:

Green frames work well with red bits imo. I need to update the photo, as I have since swapped the saddle for a black one (with red charge logo) and the crank arms are darker LX ones now too now (swapped from another bike). The red chainring bolts are quite subtle in this shot, and you can’t see the red SS spacer set.

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Jackass – where did you get the SS chaintug from? Looks like the same style as the On One version I’m currently using in black, so would make a nice addition to my bike. Ta.