Worst bike color?
03-06-03, 03:35 PM
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Worst bike color?
Another thread discussed favorite bike colors. what is your least favorite?
My vote goes to the Colnago Euro-flash peacock show-off paint jobs. Anyone else find them as loathsome as I do?
My vote goes to the Colnago Euro-flash peacock show-off paint jobs. Anyone else find them as loathsome as I do?
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Shiny...anything shiny kills me. Flat colours or no paint...
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Electric bile green. 
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Cannondale has a color called Tangelo.
I don't know if I hate the name or the color.
I don't know if I hate the name or the color.
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In the early 80's I had a Panasonic MTB that was white with electric "pink" cables and an electric turquoise and pink decals. Very Miami Vice like.
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My bontrager Privateer S Mtb is painted in garish orange, lacklustre cream and silly baby blue. Someone mentioned to me once that these were the colours of a NFL football team. Bad very bad colour permutation, I think I will paint it electric bile green someday.
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Green.. yuck.. I wish 520's weren't green. I am buying one this weekend 
I can always paint it later
I can always paint it later
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Originally posted by Maelstrom
Shiny...anything shiny kills me. Flat colours or no paint...
Shiny...anything shiny kills me. Flat colours or no paint...
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Originally posted by amerpie
Cannondale has a color called Tangelo.
I don't know if I hate the name or the color.
Cannondale has a color called Tangelo.
I don't know if I hate the name or the color.
But you can dislike the color.
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Electric bile green.
Interesting. In Irishman who has issues with green...
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Every time I think a bike color is ugly it always ends up growing on me.
25 years ago a friend bought a Colnago Super in metallic gold; I thought it was too gross and tacky for words--just reassembled a customer's bike painted in the exact same shade and it looked fantastic. I can repeat this about fifteen times over for different shades, it always happens.
25 years ago a friend bought a Colnago Super in metallic gold; I thought it was too gross and tacky for words--just reassembled a customer's bike painted in the exact same shade and it looked fantastic. I can repeat this about fifteen times over for different shades, it always happens.
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I like that tangelo color.
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Originally posted by RegularGuy
Electric bile green.
Electric bile green.
Originally posted by stumpjumper
I believe GT's name for that was "Coolant Green" in the mid to late 90's...
I believe GT's name for that was "Coolant Green" in the mid to late 90's...
You would think that that color would die a final death at some point.
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So far it seems to be green and orange.Trek tried to replace a 99 hybrid i had that the frame broke with the next year model,a 00 ,the worst geen in the world.The one that broke was a very nice ice blue and i said wrong.Well all we have is a brand new 01 that just came in,a silver and i said i'll take it.It worked for me but that green was,well i cant think of the right word.
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Originally posted by 1oldRoadie
In 1970 Chrysler painted there "Hemi-cuda" that color and called it MONSTER FLESH GREEN.
You would think that that color would die a final death at some point.
In 1970 Chrysler painted there "Hemi-cuda" that color and called it MONSTER FLESH GREEN.
You would think that that color would die a final death at some point.
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Originally posted by Raiyn
Mopar always did have the coolest colors with the BEST names LOL
Mopar always did have the coolest colors with the BEST names
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I know of one lady who had her brand-new Bianchi repainted dark blue because she disliked Celeste #217. In Italy (and probably most of Europe), that would be a travesty!
I like Bianchi Celeste, even though my Bianchi is metallic "Ralph Lauren brown," a colour which has gradually grown on me, perhaps because my wife, an oil painter and art teacher, thinks it looks elegant.
I like Bianchi Celeste, even though my Bianchi is metallic "Ralph Lauren brown," a colour which has gradually grown on me, perhaps because my wife, an oil painter and art teacher, thinks it looks elegant.
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Originally posted by 1oldRoadie
Wanna make you sick? In 1970 I refused to buy that Monster Flesh Green Hemi-cuda NEW, because the dealer wanted $73.00 per month and the most i was willing to go was $70.00!!!!
Wanna make you sick? In 1970 I refused to buy that Monster Flesh Green Hemi-cuda NEW, because the dealer wanted $73.00 per month and the most i was willing to go was $70.00!!!!
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White.
I just don't like the look of an all white bike.
But then, I'd buy white before orange.
So...ORANGE!
I just don't like the look of an all white bike.
But then, I'd buy white before orange.
So...ORANGE!
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The binanchi toothpaste color is pretty hideous. I wouldn't buy a bianchi just because of that alone.
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Originally posted by Raiyn
Well $3 was worth more then than it is now... but dang man you coulda had loads of fun before the whole OPEC embargo thing (when you might have had to sell it.)
Well $3 was worth more then than it is now... but dang man you coulda had loads of fun before the whole OPEC embargo thing (when you might have had to sell it.)
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