mike9903

I am putting a new saddle and bar tape on my 06 Reno and I need some help on the color scheme. I am going for the Fizik Airone Titanium - Special Edition saddle and some Stella Azzurra Eleganza bar tape. The question is what colors, would look best with the silver bike. I was thinking either red or blue. What saddle do you think would look best? Then what bar tape to go with that? I have an idea on what colors, but I wanted to see what everyone else thought.

Hipcycler

I've always liked the combo of a silver machine with red accents. My backup bike is like that.

Just my two-cents worth.

bigskymacadam

i would go with orange accents. but where to get orange stuff would be the question.

Patriot

I am a big lover of blue. Both my high end bikes are blue. However, if I was build another bike for my stable, I would probably go with a red theme, just because I don't have one.

Besides, if you're a Red Sox fan....

Hipcycler

Wow....

Two of the big guns from OCP jump right in when a poster asks for OCP help...
Sweet.

mike9903

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!


Do I go with the black with red strip or the red with silver stripe**********??

Hipcycler

On what? the saddle?

fmw

If you go with red, be sure to get one of these:



I got one to go with my red accented bike.

mike9903

For the saddle, I am thinking that the red with silver may be too much. Do you have a pic of your silver bike with red accents?

Hipcycler

I do, but on my home computer. I am at work, slaving over a hot microphone right now.
I agree, the full monty red would be too much. You want to keep the red understated as an accent color with that bike.....purdy!

Patriot

If you're on a bedget the Forte SLX is agood saddle from what Rad says (red, silver and black). Otehrewise, I am sure you could muttle on by with an Arione.

mike9903

I really, really like the looks of the Airone and I recently had a birthday so i got some extra cash to blow, The only problem is I think people got gift certs. to performancebike.com and they do not carry the Airone in Red and Black.

mikeoverly

Here are some ideas. Silver looks great with practically any color.

Serpico

these "OCP" threads are painful to read

I don't know whether to laugh or cry--seriously

Hipcycler

Cry.
Deeply.

Then repeat.

It will be cleansing.

mikeoverly

Look at the $$ and thought we put into transportation devices that at their very lightest and under their strongest riders have a terrible power-to-weight ratio.

= both laugh and cry.

Anyone who can rationalize over a few hundred bucks for a bike or who can rationalize discussing bikes on an internet forum has got this terrible illness. The meandering symptom chart (bike weight ... frame material ... tack-brazed vs. pinned vs. tigged vs. monocoque ... bar, seat & tape color ...) can get downright perverse. That no one has sought to form a recovery group for our addiction after all these years speaks highly of the sport.