Living Car Free - pink rear rack

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discosaurus
08-15-07, 09:39 AM
I couldn't find the fashion forum so i guess i'll ask here... I think I've seen a pink rear rack before, for sale (probably online), not a custom paint job. Google is no help. Did I dream it?

(x-posted in General)

edit: maybe this should be moved to the shiny new Utility forum!:D

gwd
08-15-07, 10:27 AM
I couldn't find the fashion forum so i guess i'll ask here... I think I've seen a pink rear rack before, for sale (probably online), not a custom paint job. Google is no help. Did I dream it?

(x-posted in General)

edit: maybe this should be moved to the shiny new Utility forum!:D

I've seen them on bikes so they exist unless we have the same dreams. No, pink is style not utility. Pink racks and black racks have the same utility.
wahoonc
08-15-07, 02:06 PM
Maybe try the Electra bikes (http://www.electrabike.com/06_new/flash_index.html)website...I have seen them somewhere too, but can't recall where. If all else fails get one powder coated...

Aaron:)

le brad
08-15-07, 03:36 PM
I wonder what it costs to have a rack powdercoated?
wahoonc
08-15-07, 03:50 PM
I wonder what it costs to have a rack powdercoated?

Dunno..but if I remember I will take my old Blackburn over to the local place and ask them..it needs redoing anyway.

Aaron:)
discosaurus
08-16-07, 03:23 PM
On a whim, I searched flickr. Check the notes on this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=386952469&size=o

I commented, so maybe the owner of this photo will be a help. But wasting no time, I examined the biggest size of the photo to reveal a logo on the rack, and with the help of Google I pinned it down as a Blackburn. This rack is everywhere, but I have yet to find a store that stocks it in pink. It's all black, black, black.
wahoonc
08-16-07, 05:02 PM
Blackburn...used to make racks in colors. I have a battered yellow one that has seen daily service since around 1992. Your best bet may be to pickup a used one and get it powder coated in your shade of pink...

Anything is possible:D and no it WAS NOT photoshopped! Belongs to my college aged daughter.

Aaron:)

http://inlinethumb57.webshots.com/8504/2864960120066886751S425x425Q85.jpg (http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2864960120066886751YQhOsK)
Newspaperguy
08-16-07, 07:57 PM
That's a bright car. About 10 or 12 years ago, a guy from the Yukon was down in my part of B.C. He was driving a bright pink Cadillac with angel figurines plastered on the sides. This guy had legally changed his name to Elvis Presley and had recorded a couple of albums. (The rest of the story gets even stranger. Last year, he ran for a government seat in the Yukon.)
discosaurus
08-17-07, 08:02 AM
That car is seriously AWESOME! I might enjoy driving if I had a pink car!

I'm so happy pink is hot right now. so far, it hasn't been hard to find anything (not just bike stuff!) in pink, with a little legwork. I even painted my kitchen chairs pink, so I guess it's sort of a sickness. The bike is just the next victim of my addiction...
And then i found these threads. drool...
http://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=331924
http://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=272058

Is it even reasonable to have a rack powdercoated? I think it might be cost prohibitive.