Originally Posted by
BrockLee
To further accent the red on matte black I'm thinking about pulling off the brake levers and the cranks and painting them red. But I'm torn; I want to ride and obviously I cant ride without cranks!
Brock,
I've pondered over whether to say what I am about to say, because I genuinely enjoy seeing people being enthusiastic about their bikes and wanting to make the experience even better, but I think you are going too far and not achieving what you want to.(Obviously you and anyone are free to disagree with me)
I'm not sure that the red accents are working in this instance, and I particularly don't think the red cables work as a visual improvement.
I'm not against the red water bottle cages, but I think the cables are too much and the crank being red would be a mistake.
It is entirely possible that your bike would look better if your cables and bottle cages were white, or maybe just the bottle cages being white and your cables back to stock black.
Understandably no one wants to rain on your parade, but I think if you keep on going, you will be the bike guy that people look at for the wrong reasons when you are riding around.
Keep in mind that totally stock, the 7.3 FX in black is a very good looking bike, it won't be that easy to improve how it looks, but very easy to make it look worse.