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  • What colour pedals & grips?
  • bikeswell
    Free Member

    (not) pink bike

    What colour of pedals/grips should I get to make my bike look more awesome? Bird describe colour as “not pink”, I agree it’s more like
    raspberry /plum.

    I was thinking Turquoise 😲.

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    Black, everything black on a bright coloured frame. And none of that God awful hope ‘bling’.

    tjagain
    Full Member

    black.

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    Black

    alexpalacefan
    Full Member

    Black

    mashr
    Full Member

    Black

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    Yellow to match the decals, or just let the frame speak for itself and stay with black.

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    By jove it’s almost a concencus! Heavens to murgatroyd!

    theboatman
    Free Member

    Whatever colour you want and add a splash of Hope bling 😎

    bigblackshed
    Full Member

    Well the saddle is black, so the grips and pedals should also be black. It’s the law.

    chakaping
    Free Member

    Yellow grips, black pedals.

    johnhe
    Full Member

    Black. Please.

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Oil slick.

    🤪

    slowoldman
    Full Member

    What colour are your eyes?

    n0b0dy0ftheg0at
    Free Member

    Gold or yellow.

    halifaxpete
    Full Member

    Cant go wrong with black. Coloured grips always seem to end up looking manky in my experience

    njd187
    Free Member

    Grips black. Pedals silver because after a few month’s that’s the colour my pedals end up whatever colour I start with.

    poah
    Free Member

    Black, nothing else will go

    Northwind
    Full Member

    Yellow grips, to show the dirt off best.

    bikeswell
    Free Member

    Black it is then. Although oil slick does look amazing 👌.

    How many of you colour coordinate your clothes to your steeds? Wondering if I have an excuse to buy new shorts & tops 🤣

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Of course you are.

    Raspberry shorts and mustard top for you it is then… 😎

    bikeswell
    Free Member

    Yes, just what I wanted to hear! Now where are those mustard top shops 😂

    kayak23
    Full Member

    Black. Less is more.

    robo89
    Free Member

    Dark blue grips like the burgtec minnaar ones and blue pedals if you have to add colour or plain old black.

    nwmlarge
    Free Member

    Black

    chakaping
    Free Member

    Be brave and get the yellow grips man, Deathgrips don’t mark up really.

    Personally I prefer blue or red as an accent colour – so I can match anodised parts like pedals & chainring too.

    But that yellow detailing is crying out for matching grips.

    core
    Full Member

    Most colour coding I’ve done – black frame, saddle with green underside (fabric), green gear outer, that’s it.

    That saddle came off a green MK2 Soul, that had everything else black.

    Coloured anodised aluminium looks shit.

    mudfish
    Full Member

    Black, I hate bling.

    joemmo
    Free Member

    boring boring black… yawn. It’s your bike, do what you want with it. I’d be tempted to go for yellow or something else fruity but if you care what someone else thinks then keep it safe.

    chakaping
    Free Member

    Coloured anodised aluminium looks shit.

    It looks great if you don’t go mad, e.g. chainring and pedals, matched with grips – all consumables.

    When people start doing hubs, stem, bars & adding big coloured stickers to their carbon rims – that’s when it looks a bit naff/tryhard.

    Refer to any Orange owners’ group to see what I mean.

    😉

    joemmo
    Free Member

    here’s some more sensible colour guides for the rules lovers.

    No more than 4 colours, not including black, greys and silver because they go with anything
    you can put pretty much any 2 colours together and get away with it
    with 3 saturated colours 2 of them should be adjacent in the colour wheel e.g. red – orange – yellow – green, cyan, blue, magenta, red ->
    with 4 colours you need to 2×2 colour pairs as above but the chance of it looking a bit ravey increase dramatically.

    Or blackzzzz.

    So for your particular colour scheme, you could try red, orange or blue to go with the existing colours. A dark olive green might look good too but bright green could look a bit much with the pinky purple.

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Refer to any Orange owners’ group to see what I mean.

    So true. Santa Cruz owners also….

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    boring boring black… yawn. It’s your bike, do what you want with it.

    Exactly this! You’re going to **** about in the woods on a toy, like the man child you are, not to a **** funeral

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Just go full send….

    poah
    Free Member

    How many of you colour coordinate your clothes to your steeds? Wondering if I have an excuse to buy new shorts & tops

    my bike, clothes helemt, gloves and car match in colour TBF

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    Whereas I am mid ride, wearing silver helmet, red baselayer, turquoise gilet, orange shoes and purple & forest green bum bag on a black, silver and luminous green bike….

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    High five Matt!

    chakaping
    Free Member

    BTW that is a lovely colour bike OP.

    bsims
    Free Member

    Black. Yellow bar plugs if available and yellow valve caps.

    FB-ATB
    Full Member

    Whereas I am mid ride, wearing silver helmet, red baselayer, turquoise gilet, orange shoes and purple & forest green bum bag on a black, silver and luminous green bike

    On CBBC recently my son saw a programme about a blind bloke who has developed echo-location to get around and he was riding a bike unaided. Was that you?

    ETA you mention everything bar kex 😱

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