What color should I paint the new fixie?
01-01-06, 05:16 PM
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What color should I paint the new fixie?
So after building my GF a fixie, I got to ride fixed in the city for a while and decided to go ahead and build my own, if only to stop beating the crap outta my roadbike.
Found a cheap Maxway frame (ie. motobecane, mercier, cheap fuji) and after I weld up the bottle bosses and do a little grinding, she's getting a new coat of primer and paint.
I have already half comitted to green, but the shade is what I'm trying to figure out. I could do straight krylon crayloa crayon green, or going to duplicolor, I have the choice of puky sea-foam green, or dark sparkly bassboat/molester van green.
I origianlly wanted a candy lime shade, but I can't find that in a spraycan anywhere.
The build is kind of unusual in that I'm using all circa 1980s dura-ace stuff as a break from all the campy-freaks up here. The wheels are silver mavic cxp22s with silver formula hubs, so all the components will be a nice milled silver (which may not go with the crayon green).
I thouht about painting the bike dookie brown but decided to let that go. Orange is a good frame color too, but there are already a lot of other orange bikes around. Not doing red. Not doing yellow. Probably not blue. I know color isn't the biggest thing to worry about, but I thought I would just toss the question out there to see what you guys think.
Found a cheap Maxway frame (ie. motobecane, mercier, cheap fuji) and after I weld up the bottle bosses and do a little grinding, she's getting a new coat of primer and paint.
I have already half comitted to green, but the shade is what I'm trying to figure out. I could do straight krylon crayloa crayon green, or going to duplicolor, I have the choice of puky sea-foam green, or dark sparkly bassboat/molester van green.
I origianlly wanted a candy lime shade, but I can't find that in a spraycan anywhere.
The build is kind of unusual in that I'm using all circa 1980s dura-ace stuff as a break from all the campy-freaks up here. The wheels are silver mavic cxp22s with silver formula hubs, so all the components will be a nice milled silver (which may not go with the crayon green).
I thouht about painting the bike dookie brown but decided to let that go. Orange is a good frame color too, but there are already a lot of other orange bikes around. Not doing red. Not doing yellow. Probably not blue. I know color isn't the biggest thing to worry about, but I thought I would just toss the question out there to see what you guys think.
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Originally Posted by crushkilldstroy
british racing green.
chisel off the hood ornament from a Jaguar and epoxy it onto your stem!
01-01-06, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by popluhv
Yeah, paint it BRG, add a Brooks in honey and...
chisel off the hood ornament from a Jaguar and epoxy it onto your stem!
chisel off the hood ornament from a Jaguar and epoxy it onto your stem!
01-01-06, 07:27 PM
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sage green is a little too pastel for me. I'm really diggin the BRG the more I try to imagine it. Guess I have to make another trip to the hardware store.
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im thinking about doing bright neon metalic green..
01-01-06, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by YellowFixedGear
im thinking about doing bright neon metalic green..
01-01-06, 07:33 PM
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I found someone that has the color but hear they people have had really bad problems with them. Its a small place in Ozone park.
If its a good job, I would pay $100 to have the frame done. I have a chrome fork.
If its a good job, I would pay $100 to have the frame done. I have a chrome fork.
01-01-06, 07:36 PM
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If I wasn't going to go with a single color, I was going to do an olive drab frame with pink flames coming from the headtube and running down the bike.
It might look good with brown too.
It might look good with brown too.
01-01-06, 07:57 PM
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I saw custom Harley Davidson motorcycle done by a Japanese builder, and he used an almost olive drab color for the frame that contrasted very nicely with various browns, golds and reds.
By itself, I would not have cared for the color, but I really liked it in combination with the accenting colors.
So, I guess I mean a person should consider the colors of the other components, such as the saddle, in selecting which tone and type of green for the frame.
A honey Brooks would look dynamite with some greens and just plain weird with other greens.
I think I'll do a search for that Japanese Harely Davidson.
By itself, I would not have cared for the color, but I really liked it in combination with the accenting colors.
So, I guess I mean a person should consider the colors of the other components, such as the saddle, in selecting which tone and type of green for the frame.
A honey Brooks would look dynamite with some greens and just plain weird with other greens.
I think I'll do a search for that Japanese Harely Davidson.
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Originally Posted by AfterThisNap
thats kind of what I wanted originally but I couldn't find it in rattlecan.
https://www.testors.com/catalog_browse.asp?ictNbr=4
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Originally Posted by crushkilldstroy
i was thinking more along the line of brg, a british flag on the saddle, minilites, and 4 big ass hella fogs on a chrome bar in the front.
01-01-06, 08:28 PM
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i've been thinking about that too and decided green and purple, maybe not british racing green, but some dark green.
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doo doo brown
if i could have any color scheme on an older lugged frame, i'd go for the chrome and metallic green + hot pink celo tape like laurence fishbourne in quicksilver.. that **** is hot
if i could have any color scheme on an older lugged frame, i'd go for the chrome and metallic green + hot pink celo tape like laurence fishbourne in quicksilver.. that **** is hot
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White is sexy.
No denying it.
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olive green with tan lugs with black highlights
01-02-06, 10:22 AM
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Don't want white either I guess. Also, this is a modern butted cromo TIGed frame. No lugs, no love.
GOD I hate welding on bike tubes...
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