View Poll Results: What color
Black
41
22.78%
Grey
12
6.67%
White
12
6.67%
Red
22
12.22%
Yellow
5
2.78%
Blue
26
14.44%
Green
15
8.33%
Purple
9
5.00%
Other
38
21.11%
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What color is your bike?
06-20-19, 05:40 PM
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What color is your bike?
How about a fun little poll....what color is your bike?
06-20-19, 05:43 PM
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Blue, red, or black. Depends which I'm looking at.
My "flagship" bike, the Schwinn Volare, is the red one.
My "flagship" bike, the Schwinn Volare, is the red one.
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06-20-19, 05:54 PM
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How about a category for "Who in the hell cares" ? As long as the bike has the features I want for the type of riding I am doing and meets my budget, I don't give one care about the color. Never has it entered my buying choice. OK I might object to pink but I bet there are few pink bikes for a 6' 1" person.
06-20-19, 06:07 PM
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How about a category for "Who in the hell cares" ? As long as the bike has the features I want for the type of riding I am doing and meets my budget, I don't give one care about the color. Never has it entered my buying choice. OK I might object to pink but I bet there are few pink bikes for a 6' 1" person.
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06-20-19, 06:08 PM
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06-20-19, 06:44 PM
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The coloured bars in the poll are messing with my head.
I painted mine red because it's my daughter's favourite colour. I have various bikes but my daily is red. TS a tandem, she sits on the back, and as I'm quite heavily colourblind it was more important she picked the colour.
I painted mine red because it's my daughter's favourite colour. I have various bikes but my daily is red. TS a tandem, she sits on the back, and as I'm quite heavily colourblind it was more important she picked the colour.
06-20-19, 07:01 PM
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Which one?
2 black
1 matte black
1 blue
1 white
1 Yellow - coming soon.
2 black
1 matte black
1 blue
1 white
1 Yellow - coming soon.
06-20-19, 07:32 PM
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Black. I hate colors.
Except for Celeste. I have one of those, too.
Except for Celeste. I have one of those, too.
06-20-19, 07:54 PM
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Me too...though I have a pink road bike. It is an amazing bike. Then again, I wear cycling kit that is pretty much the opposite of anything I'd be caught dead in off the bike. So it goes.
I do have one bike in quite a nice bright shade of blue. I had a greenish/bluish Nishiki that was a very nice color as well.
I tend to prioritize value for my budget over color...hence, some bikes in colors that are not my preference scored for way less than I should have paid.
I do have one bike in quite a nice bright shade of blue. I had a greenish/bluish Nishiki that was a very nice color as well.
I tend to prioritize value for my budget over color...hence, some bikes in colors that are not my preference scored for way less than I should have paid.
06-20-19, 07:59 PM
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06-20-19, 08:06 PM
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My primary roadie is black, and my primary mtn bike is red.
I have others.
I have others.
06-20-19, 08:09 PM
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Yuck
I'd call it a sort of yucky steel grey but maybe it's supposed to be a yucky blue. I looked it up on the vintage trek site trying to figure out how old it is and 1999 blue looked like a possibility. It's a faithful old steed anyway.
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Hey sailor, lookin' for me?
How about a category for "Who in the hell cares" ? As long as the bike has the features I want for the type of riding I am doing and meets my budget, I don't give one care about the color. Never has it entered my buying choice. OK I might object to pink but I bet there are few pink bikes for a 6' 1" person.
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Not Gray
Not by me.
Gray seems such a banal description. Metal? Polished metal? Silver...No, How about just calling it titanium? 1999 Lightspeed Blade TT bike* 10 cogs Single Chainring *The Trek badged frame the Texas doper used to "win" TT in TDF.
Not by me.
Gray seems such a banal description. Metal? Polished metal? Silver...No, How about just calling it titanium? 1999 Lightspeed Blade TT bike* 10 cogs Single Chainring *The Trek badged frame the Texas doper used to "win" TT in TDF.
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06-20-19, 09:48 PM
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At one time or another I’ve owned a bike in every color listed except purple. Currently I have a black & blue, 2 white ones, a green one, and a primer brown one. And for the record, I’ve rocked a bright pink one. Like bold, undeniably PINK... and I’m ok with that.
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06-20-19, 10:36 PM
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3 blue (and white)
1 silver
1 green
2 gold
1 black (and yellow)
1 silver
1 green
2 gold
1 black (and yellow)
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Other than black and pink I have owned bikes in just about every color. That said, if I was going to have a custom frame built it would be purple, the color of my first bike.
