Controversy!
 

:love: or :eek: ? The colour that divided a community.

it matches your socks.

the dusty pink is all right but what's with the half-assed tiger stripes?

it seems a little big , now that you have painted it a more feminine colour.. but hey- suit yourself .. or your customer? eh..

/m

it will suit some gf´s hair colour , for sure..

was that an accident or a good deal at the paint shop? does it have a name?

It's amazing

Looking down at the top tube may resemble teeth. Not something I'd care for. The colour looks kinda industrial...

I like it. I'm not sure it'd be my first choice, but it's not bad.

Ooooooh! I'm a girlfriend! And that color would look great with my hair.

:love: :love: :love:

What do you call this color? Poi? Mmmm....poi

Looks good in my opinion.

I love it, not quite Lilac, but very nice. Is that a mountain frame (suss fork, fat knobbies) or a 700c frame with a disk mount?

I want a pink bike. Preferably a manly minimalist mountain bike.

I like the color, but I agree, what's up with the zebra/tiger stripes?

Nice frame.

pepto bismol?

arf meow!

being chromatically challenged it looks kinda grey to me.

neither fish nor flesh

Guys - the stripes are from the Thylacine, a now-extinct critter from Oz. See pic and read below....

The Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, a marsupial carnivore which was wiped out of existence in the early 1930s.

The Thylacine, like other marsupials, had a pouch in which it carried its young. Although it was a distant relative of the Opossum, it also had canine and feline features and is also related to the Tasmanian Devil. Other names for the Thylacine include: Dog Faced Dasyurus, Kangaroo wolf, Pouched wolf, Zebra wolf, Hyena wolf, and Wolf or Hyena Opossum.

The Thylacine fed on smaller animals, and did most of its hunting at dusk. Even though it had powerful jaws which could rip apart flesh and bone, this animal was no match against the increasing Dingo population that had been brought in by the Aborigines, so they were forced off the Mainland and ultimately wound up on the Island of Tasmania.

Farmers who lived on the island did not appreciate the introduction of this new predator which posed a threat to their livestock, so a bounty was put on the animals, leading to the near extermination of the species.

Although the Thylacine was now virtually extinct, It remained an enemy in the eyes of the settlers, who continued exterminating the animal until 1933. It wasn't until three years later that the Thylacine was declared an endangered species, but by then it was too late, the Thylacine was virtually extinct.

Since then, there have been thousands of reported sightings of the Thylacine, but there never is enough conclusive evidence to prove the possible existence of a Thylacine population.

I kinda like it.

I like the poi color.

OT. Thylacine, just curious about the use of an extinct (or nearly extinct) animal for your biz. You don't want an extinct business right? Or are the rare sightings part of the marque's cachè.

They have a bit of a folk following in Australia, Tasmania especially. When I was in Tasmania there were bars with thylacine themes and thylacine beer and all sorts of other thylacine stuff. I guess its somewhat of a national symbol.

Its simple: "Thats Hot!"

oops my bad, was that an illegal use of a trademark?

I'd ride it in and with a heartbeat!

...although, I would prefer a pale blue or a pukey green.