Originally Posted by
Torrilin
Around here, it seems like the students and staff prefer to wear the school colors (UW-Madison's colors are red and white). So you'll run into plenty of people on bikes wearing bright red, but riding a black bike. This seems pretty sensible to me. Stripping paint is a *serious* pain in the ass. And a repaint is more prone to chips and scratches. So if you can keep the original paint job, it's a good idea. It's just not worth going to all that trouble if the original paint job is in good shape.
They USED to sell Red or White bikes, seems everything now is flat black, Anthracite or Gravel Gray
Not too many colors from the larger manufacturers now. Of course having a bright RED Giant MTB with bright YELLOW freddy fenders...I could care less
Aaron
