I'll be painting my Trek T1, and I'm looking for some feedback on paint scheme ideas. It can't be too complicated because I'll be doing this myself, but I can use vinyl decals custom made. This will have my name under the clear-coat too
P.S. the baby blue would be a matte finish.

Wtf is going on with #6?

Matte baby blue with white rims and the black fork is actually just keeping the CF showing. Scheme 6.1 adds a white race stripe on the TT.

No, the one that appears to have strings or some **** stretching from the headtube to the seatstays

That's a concept of above a line and below a line being two different colors. Angles of the color changing line.

Purple

tool dip the whole thing

No amount of paint is gonna take the taper out of the top tube.

2 and 10 are my fav.

probably 10 with light blue of 2 being my favfav

I like the aesthetics of the taper. Steel tubing isn't the only sexy option.

Here's the suguestion given from illdthedj:

#6 looks good but I would go with a nice teal IMO

After doing some lighter ideas, I found I really liked the white with a classic racing color. Before I had been using black mostly because I wanted to wrap the top tube like I have with other bikes. But I decided I'll just wrap it with clear vinyl.

Baby blue, or British racing green? I might paint the rims white as well

my favorite paint scheme of all time for a bike is the Gulf colors. probably wouldnt be terribly hard to replicate...

I'd go for doodoo brown.

Thats not a very nice thing to say.

Polished aluminum > paint.

More work has come up with:

I like the Gulf color scheme idea, but the classic 50's-60's car colors are appealing to me too.

I didn't even know doodoo brown was on the table. I'd do that too.

that middle one is by far the best one I think.

I have about a week to decide on the color of my frame too!

The middle is really just a play off of the Baum example from above. It'll be the most difficult too, so I doubt I'll do that one.

ah I didn't play catchup in the thread. that explains it. their paint jobs are some of my favorites. considering 'borrowing' one of their ideas myself

Why propose ideas if you aren't considering using them?

When I came across glow-in-the-dark auto paint, I had to play with paint schemes around the idea.

Matte black with two different options of glow-in-the-dark. The lime green is the classic kind we all know, and blueish is a particular option from Dupli that says it'll illuminate longer. I've been playing around with ideas for a vinyl head badge under the clear coat. Looking like either an cartoon skull or an "I" in a unique font. Any thoughts?

do you ride at night?

Actually, yes. Quite often.