OK lynch me….. I’m sure this has been done before, but I want to get my mk.1 Cotic Soul powdercoated and I need inspiration. I have considered either British racing green, olive green, duckegg blue… or some other pastelly colour…. I have black forks so thats ok……

Surely the original orange. Always liked the green and blue on the older Solaris.

Black.

I never really loved the original orange colour……

(I really am going to get lynched now!)

Whatever colour that you actually like?

Why would you ask people you’ve never met before to choose the colour of a bike that they’ll most likely never even see?.

Orange. I’m biased though

Silk finished black or duck egg blue imo.👍

Hearing aid beige or whatever it was called

I always thought sparkley dark purple would be nice. And don’t put the decals back on, leave it as a mystery machine but those who know will know.

Anything but black.

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Er so nice people might post some pics of nice Souls in nice colours so I can consider at leisure – good real world pics are always better than the stock pics from the manufacturers (sorry Si!)

Some kinda semi metallic gun metal grey.

Or kandy pink.

Yellow or Orange

How fast do you ride? This will affect how likely I am to recommend red.

Purple

Or

Puce

Or

Yellow

Or

Something else…

A metallic flip paint if it’s paint. I always loved the klein orange/ red.

If its powder silver

That rusty orange colour that the Karate Monkey Ops came in. That or purple.

Navy blue hammerite.

Fair enough.

I’ve had 3 souls, the original matt grey, which I powdercoated white – don’t do that, it looks shite. And then the lime green one, which was lovely.

Get it powdercoated, by someone who actually does bikes, not yer local boy racer alloy guys, much more hard wearing than paint.

RAL 3031  but pearlescent.

Pale blue powder worked recently.
Freshly finished

I always thought sparkley dark purple would be nice. And don’t put the decals back on, leave it as a mystery machine but those who know will know.

Go for the ultimate purple, with Midnight Purple used by Nissan on the Skyline R34

2000 R34 GTR Midnight Purple 3 ~ Available @ Garage Defend

Cordoba beige Shirley.

Long, dark teatime colour.

Just clearcoat the bare metal.

I’ve got a Mk1 in black that is looking a little tired now, so also keen to see some real life ideas.

Quite liking the bright yellow at the moment

I also went thru this dilemma (decided to wait for winter maybe), check the cotic site as there’s only certain decals available.

Custard yellow is the only proper colour for a soul, not that god awful dayglow yellow above.

Hmmm, I am liking the powder blue…. the retina burning yellow is not my cup of tea, but it would be handy if you could have an emergency button which would turn it that colour for foggy days and so on.

Anybody had one in olive green or pastel green like a Farrow and Ball country kitchen colour?

Speaking of Farrow and Ball, I quite like this blue:

Was just going to suggest having a flick through the Farrow & Ball catalogue. It’s Mole’s Breath grey for me.

Anything but black

Unless it’s the Solaris cosmic black as that’s the best paint job ever.

Was just going to suggest having a flick through the Farrow & Ball catalogue. It’s Mole’s Breath grey for me.

I hope they use free range moles for that. Do they have mole farms?

Nice colour mind

That green kitchen colour with some nice decals would be ace.
Almost this…

another blue

Nice!

There’s some sort of metallic electric blue I saw recently on an Orbea which looked amazing.

My other thought would be, I seem to remember there was a story about an original batch of Cotic frames that should have been grey but a couple of numbers were transposed on the ral code so they arrived in hot pink. That hot pink was a cracking colour as well.

Blood red, and get the forks done too.