Originally Posted by smasha

If it was pink, day-glow-green, and/or light-purple, I wouldn't enjoy it.

A blue/grey, red, orange rust palette I could actually enjoy. It has kind of a punk, NYC, Mad-Max aesthetic, which I'm cool with.

For someone else, a pink, day-glow-green, and light-purple palette, maybe with stripes and/or polka-dots, would suit them.

Either way, I'd think the resale value, and thus the attraction to thieves, would be significantly reduced. An advantage of a rust-looking paint-job is that a lot of bike thieves wouldn't even wonder what's under the "rust". They'd just keep browsing.