Classic & Vintage - Pink (Specialized Allez) bike for a guy?

Came across this bike. Specialized Allez. 1993 I think? It's $250, but don't know if I could ride a pink bike. It is a cool shade, though.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c107/guzziee/Dsc_2095.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c107/guzziee/Dsc_2096.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c107/guzziee/Dsc_2097.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c107/guzziee/DSC_2099.jpg

Ride it.

-Jake

Seriously? Rock the pink. I'm not even that girly, but I would totally ride this if I could find it in a 49cm:
http://cgi.ebay.com/new-1990-Eddy-Merckx-Criterium-SLX-57-cm-c-c-pristine-/220676654076?pt=Road_Bikes&hash=item33615a83fc

Isn't there a thread here somewhere with everyone posting pics of their pink bikes?
Plus, if you bought this, it would sure make it easy to spot you in a crowd.

I'd ride it

Might make it less likely to get stolen. I'm not sure if I'd have the self confidence to pull it off either.

Pink is the new black.

As most of the others have posted... Ride it.


I am a little biased though....

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff169/72tunaboat/IMG_3660.jpg

Rock it.
It would work even better if you could find a set of 80's Oakley Factory Pilots!

Came across this bike. Specialized Allez. 1993 I think? It's $250, but don't know if I could ride a pink bike. It is a cool shade, though.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c107/guzziee/Dsc_2095.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c107/guzziee/Dsc_2096.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c107/guzziee/Dsc_2097.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c107/guzziee/DSC_2099.jpg

Heck Yeah! I'd ride it (If it were in my size).:thumb::p:love: Compared to White, Black, Red, etc. It stands out. You could use it as leverage with the ladies in the petalon by telling them that you ride a pink bike for breast cancer awareness..:D:p:thumb:

I must point out that it's more fusha that a baby or bubblegum pink.

Does anyone have a catalog? I want to see for sure what year it is. Those handlebars look wild. Notice how the ends curve inwards.

Does anyone have a catalog? I want to see for sure what year it is. Those handlebars look wild. Notice how the ends curve inwards.

Based on the graphics it looks like a 91 or 92. Looks very similar to the Sirrus' graphics of those years.

I have the exact bike sitting in my garage. The paint on mine is a bit faded. I think the color is awesome. You just need to man up and not be afraid of a pink bike.

And I have seen the exact same mono-tube seat stay frame design on a Nishiki.

http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt327/oldarizona/Specialized%20Transition/DSC_0166Large.jpg

http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt327/oldarizona/Specialized%20Transition/DSC_0167Large.jpg

Yes, those late 80's early 90's were dominated by bright colors like that pink, pastels, purples and electric blues. Blame it on the "Miami Vice" culture. People of both genders were not afraid to clothe themselves in these bright colors.
Just ride it and maybe tell everyone who ask why you are riding such a bike that it used to be red but it faded to the pink color after all the years and miles riding in the sun.......or something....

Chombi

Awesome color! Bike looks hot. I'd have no problem manning up to that. Already have a Rose Vitus.
It's more neon fucsia than pink, IMO.

If you had to ask someone else, don't get it.

-Kurt

P.S.: Is it just me, or are both of the Allez frames shown here built with triathlon geometry?

Dude, ride it. I say this as a woman. I would think a guy on that bike was hot, because he's man enough to not care what others think. My six year-old son LOVES pink. It's his favorite color in the world, and has been since before he could talk (he was already selecting pink things by pointing and screaming :)). He's just starting to get teased about it. Last week, we had a long heart-to-heart about how stupid and homophobic (no, I didn't use that word with a six year-old) our culture is, and how the only way to change the culture is to act differently yourself. He totally got it.

When he was a baby, and men would say to me: "Doesn't it bother you that he likes pink?" I would reply: "Other people's homophobia is not my problem."

For him: in the lunchroom where he likes to bring his pink fork and spoon, the others tease him and say: "You like pi-ink, you like piii-ink <insert sing-song obnoxious rude child voice here>. I taught him this response: "I'd rather like pink, than be a bully like you."

Screw The Man. Ride the pink bike and thumb your nose at our stupid, homophobic culture. And for what it's worth, there are many cultures in the world where boys wear pink, and girls wear blue, including Spain. It won't make you gay to ride a pink bike, and if you were gay, you wouldn't necessarily want a pink bike because being gay does not involve some genetic color preference. So just ride the thing. It's a beautiful bike.

Though I wouldn't want it, because I'm not super into pink. No really.

If you had to ask someone else, don't get it.

-Kurt

P.S.: Is it just me, or are both of the Allez frames shown here built with triathlon geometry?

Yes, I think so. Mine says "Allez" and "Transition". Transition refers to tri transitions I assume, and I think the current specialized tri bikes are also called transition.

Mine has a 56cm c-c top tube, which is longer than I would have expected based on the head tube length.

Jared

[QUOTE=cudak888;11754748]If you had to ask someone else, don't get it.

-Kurt

hahahahaha Now, THAT'S funny. I love pink bikes.

My sister gave me a pink Armani men's shirt she got as a gift from the design house when she attended a fashion show here in SF (Yes, I asked, everyone got the same color shirt because of the show's theme...). It hangs in my closet.....for about 7 years now....I guess I eventually have to "man up" and wear that shirt one day for her.........maybe this Thanksgiving?

Chombi

I'd hold out for something with nicer lugs. :lol:

My sister gave me a pink Armani men's shirt she got as a gift from the design house when she attended a fashion show here in SF (Yes, I asked, everyone got the same color shirt because of the show's theme...). It hangs in my closet.....for about 7 years now....I guess I eventually have to "man up" and wear that shirt one day for her.........maybe this Thanksgiving?

Chombi


I say man up sooner rather than later. I have one pink shirt in my rotation and so far no one has shown up to confiscate my man card.:thumb::p

I take baths with candles, and I enjoy it.
No, seriously. I do.

My boyfriend, who is 6'2, climbs mountains and can deadlift like 300 lbs, wears a lavendar button-down shirt to work all the time. I love that shirt.

Man up and wear the pink. Honestly, it might be liberating.

I'm gonna pass on it. Not because it's pink but I just don't need it. I have to wean myself from buying every bike I come across that I like. It's in DFW is anyone is interested.

http://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/bik/2048376065.html

Looking at those pictures again, it is clear that my bike has faded a lot. I knew that it had faded some, as there are less faded areas where there were stickers, but until I saw those pictures I did not realize how much.

I wonder if the bright pink paint is particularly susceptible to the fading.

Jared

I take baths with candles, and I enjoy it.
No, seriously. I do.

WAY too much information!

I'd ride that in a NY second...don't fear the pink!!

I'd ride it, if it were 56/58cm.

Either someone in Dallas is getting a screamin' deal, or this girl in Seattle is overpricing her bike:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/2049226702.html

Meh. I'd never ride a pink bike. Mostly, I personally just think pink is an ugly color. I would ride a periwinkle colored bike even though it's a "girl" color, but not pink. Also, it's just too trendy now. A few years ago you had all the main stream trendy guys jumping on the pink bandwagon because it shows how cool and tough they are that they can wear pink, and now you have all the little skater emo high school kids wearing pink. Combine the ugly and trendy and I just wouldn't ever buy a pink bike.

However, if you don't find pink to be ugly, and you don't mind the trendy emo person or a guy trying to compensate for his insecurity thing, and if it's a nice bike for a good deal, I say definitely go for it. I wouldn't let the "girl" color aspect stop you.

I take baths with candles, and I enjoy it.
No, seriously. I do.

So there is a market for floating candles shaped like battleships and submarines afterall......
I should file that away in case this recession gets to long and I might need to do a career change.........now what scent shoud I use on the candles......Hmmmmmm...burnt gunpowder or bunker oil??

Chombi

So there is a market for floating candles shaped like battleships and submarines afterall......

Chombi

Haha, actually, that would be pretty cool.

cherry blossom red


sheesh ;)

Looking at those pictures again, it is clear that my bike has faded a lot. I knew that it had faded some, as there are less faded areas where there were stickers, but until I saw those pictures I did not realize how much.

I wonder if the bright pink paint is particularly susceptible to the fading.

Jared
I noticed that most red paints had a tendency to fade faster than other colors maybe because of the pigments commonly used (I've read something about this before too). You see this in a lot of red cars that have lived their lives mostly outside of a garage. I think that paint manufacturers have since improved their products enough to minimize this problems these days as I do not seem to see as many newer faded red cars on the roads these days.
Yellow is another color that also seems to fade quickly.

Chombi

Here's my pink Bianchi with tubes and cables encrusted with ice after a jolly romp through an Appalachian snowstorm. The color didn't seem emasculating at all...
177430

Some times its really tough for me to keep it PG-Rated and family friendly.

This is one of those times. I am brimming with dirty jokes.

I'll simply say that pink is good and its what most men want to see the most.

It looks like the sun barely faded the paint, more of a cotton candy,bubblegum color. Looks like dual pivot brakes. With black tape bottle cages, its rather pleasant.I'd guess the color would repulse most sticky fingered types.

Some times its really tough for me to keep it PG-Rated and family friendly.

This is one of those times. I am brimming with dirty jokes.

I'll simply say that pink is good and its what most men want to see the most.

LOL, Meow!!!!

Mutt

I believe Aerosmith had a song that was briefly popular when I was in college (didn't say it was good, just popular) wherein they proposed that "Pink is the color of passion"

It's a bike, not my underwear.
So pink is fine.

I'm a Man... But, when I read threads like this one, and some of the other "is a basket too feminine?", or "can a man ride a step through frame?", or "is this color too girly?". Quite frankly it embarrasses me to be a Man.

The sexual branding of colors, and machinery as male of female is one of the most idiotic concepts that humans have came up with in the last 100 years or so.

And by the way, if anyone does a little research you will quickly find that the color roles that some cling to so strongly, were in fact just the opposite around the turn of the twentieth century. We can in fact thank the Nazis for some of our sexual ideas when it comes to colors.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=238733

Having said all that, I'm still not going to put on a dress and ride a "Hello Kitty" bike, but if I did, I guarantee that it should not be viewed as a reflection of my sexuality... my overall mental state maybe, but not sexual. :twitchy:

Either someone in Dallas is getting a screamin' deal, or this girl in Seattle is overpricing her bike:

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/2049226702.html

Probably a little of both. She's asking $500 OBO. In Seattle, she should be able to pull in $400 with a little patience. Probably wouldn't take half as much patience if it was spring or summer.

Used bike markets vary widely. There are some parts of the country where it would take you 6 months to get $200 for that Specialized via Craigslist.

I guess it's not crazy that we worry about the color of a bike, just food for thought.

After all, our society only considers a man serious about marrying a woman if he spends a lot of otherwise needed money on a very, very old stone that generally very, very poor people go to considerably uncomfortable lengths to gather, to little benefit of the very, very poor people. Even more absurd is the fact that synthetic versions of the very, very old stone can be manufactured at far less human and financial cost.

What's more, we go to great lengths to secure, collect, and distribute bicycles to some of the very same, very poor people who need to be able to ride to where they go to uncomfortable lengths to find and harvest the very old stones.

I doubt they care if the bike is pink.

oh... allez... le rose c'est aussi pour les garçons !

The GC stage leader , final winner of the Giro d' Italia mounts the highest step of the podium
and puts on a Pink jersey.

http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/photos/2009/giro09/?id=/photos/2009/giro09/giro0921/PIC35223892

It's a bike, not my underwear.
So pink is fine.

Personally, I would sooner wear pink underwear than ride that Allez. I find the color irritating to my eyes. It's not lugged either, so. . . .

Personally, I would sooner wear pink underwear than ride that Allez. I find the color irritating to my eyes. It's not lugged either, so. . . . Pictures or it didn't happen.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Well played, sir. Careful what you ask for. . .

I'd do it, but mine all have the days on them.....

.....don't wanna upset your routine....change em every week whether they need it or not ;)