View Poll Results: What should i do?
Leave as is
11
78.57%
Black bottle cages - simple thin
2
14.29%
black bottle cages - sport
0
0%
blue cages and bar tape - match steering tube
1
7.14%
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The important stuff... Colour coding
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The important stuff... Colour coding
I'm in 2 minds, and a creative cripple. What would you do with this bike?
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I'd water the plants on both sides of it.
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Ride it.
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Remove decals from wheels. Get tires with black sidewalls. ( the vintage threads look out of place ) cages aren’t bad, but if changed, use something aero, modern, and similar finish to frame finish, matte on matte-gloss on gloss. Blue tape is hard to make work. Can be done (Fizik Metal Blue maybe?) On this Bike a little blue is going to look like a lot and may result in more of a tritone instead of an accent. To put it another way, may look like a red, white, and blue bike instead of a red and white bike with some blue highlights. If you wanted to add color, I’d probably lean toward adding red (saddle, tape, cages,). If you are up for it bring the blue back in a tad with Jagwire cable housings.
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remove all that tacky branding, spray cages solid color that lone will be a huge improvement. all the branding and logos make a good looking bike terrible
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Sell it, doesn’t fit.
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Sell it, it's offensive to the eye.
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Add the blue and then ride while wearing this:
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I'd say to just embrace It and step it up a notch. Go full on towards the red/white/blue color scheme. Change the cable housing to either red or blue or both. Change the spacers to blingy red and blue ones. Seat collar to one of those colors as well. If you wanted an understated bike, you should have bought one. This one is bold...make it more so. Here's three examples of what I've done with colors
A plain grey titanium dressed up in the company colors
DSCN0934 by Stuart Black, on Flickr
A plain white Cannondale made more eye catching with color
IMG_1444 (1) by Stuart Black, on Flickr
And a garish orange Salsa Las Cruces made even more garish. It currently sports metallic orange tape and orange pedals so it's even more over the top
DSCN0164 by Stuart Black, on Flickr
Many would say tacky (I might agree) but they are also bold and eye catching. Yours is already there, just take it further.
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Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
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Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
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Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
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OP: I'd get white bar tape and a white saddle. I'd then add a white/red bottle in the down tube cage and a white/blue bottle in the seat tube cage.
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Nice looking bike
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ride it a few thousand miles
do a few local group rides
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then decide what / if you want to change anything
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ride it a few thousand miles
do a few local group rides
...
then decide what / if you want to change anything