rr99

Hi Guys,

I have a major dilemma concerning the color of the Trek 5900 OCLV 110 USPS edition, ridden by LA on TdF 2000.

Back than, Trek used to produce exactly the same (factory) bikes for both pro and amateur riders. In other words, you can get to ride the same bike as pro riders. However, the color of the Trek 5900 varies a lot from bike to bike, and its slightly different from the one used by LA and the one that I found online.

As you can notice, the color of LA bike is extremely grey and it looks like its not the same as the one below which is for mass production. Am I crazy or these two bikes have different color?

Thank you!

indyfabz

Yes.

canklecat

May just be color correction problems. Web browsers vary in color management, so some colors can appear different between different browsers, computers or handheld devices, even between different viewers.

Open two or more browsers and compare the photos. Chrome, Firefox, whatever Windows calls its latest browser that nobody uses, Safari, etc., will all differ somewhat in color management. Ditto if the device isn't color managed, although it's generally best to use the default sRGB. Handheld devices vary all over the place in color rendering.

My early 1990s Trek 5900 is very definitely purple. Trek called it "Abyss". But in some photos it appears blue.

My smartphone JPEGs render the purpose reasonably accurately in most lighting. But my Nikon JPEGs and default raw files render it blue. I need to make color corrections in Lightroom to get the correct purple without shifting all other colors until they're inaccurate.

And when my Android phone and laptop shift to night mode, which cuts blue, color management goes to h311.

But this isn't really new. In ye olden dayes of film, many color negative and slide films had trouble accurately rendering blues, violets, purples, etc.

Below: Same bike, different days, different cameras, times of day, white balance, etc. Bottom photo is closest to the bike's true purple color.