The paint on my SR is actually the first thing that caught my attention. Most of the bike is a sort of medium blue gray with fine metalic flake and tan pin stripes. The head tube is red except for the luggs at the top and bottom. They match the rest of the bike. When this bike was new it drew a lot of comments from people for the extensive use of alloy in it's components. Now twenty seven years later alloys seem to be standard.