I want to be 100% invisible. Help me with paint scheme.
06-09-07, 05:46 PM
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I want to be 100% invisible. Help me with paint scheme.
Ok...I was one of folks who expressed interest in the Pedal Force group buy. However, I'm still sitting here thinking about the best way to go stealth. Sure, naked carbon is stealth, but all black, naked carbon is really trendy at this point and it only encourages more folks to pay attention to your bike. For example, I was chilling in the LBS with a few guys rolling around in there with a Parlee and DeRosa. All of suddden some guy in a disco kit popped in the store with a Scott, decals all removed, and everyone started jumping all excited.
Anyway, I am thinking of painting my PF once it gets here with some kind of camo combination. What's a good color scheme for urban invisibility?
Anyway, I am thinking of painting my PF once it gets here with some kind of camo combination. What's a good color scheme for urban invisibility?
06-09-07, 05:51 PM
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rattle can flat black
06-09-07, 05:56 PM
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Gray. From a behavioral/scientific standpoint, the human eye perceives it even less than black.
06-09-07, 06:13 PM
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Anything brown is way off the color palette radar for interesting bikes. Somewhere from cafe au lait to medium brown will make it seem that you don't care about your bike's looks at all and that will cue everybody else not to care either. No logos will further cement the psychological cue - makes it look like an old bike that has been resprayed cheaply in whatever the painter had lying around and did not expect to use.
The only brown bikes I see are old steel bikes resprayed as messenger bikes.
The only brown bikes I see are old steel bikes resprayed as messenger bikes.
06-09-07, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackTaloN
rattle can flat black
Last edited by group105; 06-10-07 at 03:07 PM.
06-09-07, 06:31 PM
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My opinion on why some guys are peeling logos off is'nt that they're trying to be trendy, individualistic or anything else, it's because they're just getting tired of being moving billboards for companies they have no vested interest in. There's some dignity to that I think.
06-09-07, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue Jays
Gray. From a behavioral/scientific standpoint, the human eye perceives it even less than black.
06-09-07, 06:44 PM
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Some kind of 1980s paint scheme: for instance, red frame with fade to blue stays, and fade to yellow fork. Nobody would steal that.
06-09-07, 07:19 PM
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I'd go with dazzle camouflage used on warships during WWI.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
They will see you but they won't know which way you're going.
They will see you but they won't know which way you're going.
06-09-07, 07:21 PM
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Death wish?
06-09-07, 08:52 PM
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Now I re-read your request, you want camo to blend in to your surroundings. I think red and yellow with white accents will blend in to the usual urban background:
06-09-07, 10:33 PM
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Wrap your whole bike with grey duct tape and/or black electrical tape. That's urban. NYC urban.
Plus, the effect is 100% reversible.
Plus, the effect is 100% reversible.
06-10-07, 04:18 PM
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Hmm. I wonder how the work on transparent aluminium is comming along...
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Originally Posted by FranckCisco
Anyway, I am thinking of painting my PF once it gets here with some kind of camo combination. What's a good color scheme for urban invisibility?
06-10-07, 04:58 PM
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Gray. From a behavioral/scientific standpoint, the human eye perceives it even less than black.
+1 Specifically the shade known as NEUTRAL GRAY.
06-10-07, 05:43 PM
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four words (sixteen if you're a turd who counts all of them).
glow
in
the
dark
glow
in
the
dark
06-10-07, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by cris2fur
four words (sixteen if you're a turd who counts all of them).
glow
in
the
dark
glow
in
the
dark
06-10-07, 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by rbart4506
YES!!! Had a Titanium Gray Mazda 3 and people kept trying to side swipe me on cloudy days....
06-10-07, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by thelazywon
06-10-07, 07:33 PM
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and 82% metallic bronze. No one looks at bronze, esp. with grey.
Originally Posted by EventServices
18% grey