Originally Posted by
Troul
The whole point in such a bicycle is to enjoy it for those reasons criminals want to steal it. There are no realistic efficient solutions to preventing theft when leaving it unattended out in public. You want to keep your asset? Stay with it when out in public.
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.