Patrick, After seeing some of the examples posted, I'm really digging silver and battleship gray.
If your powder coater can in fact get you the green you want (sage, you said?), then obviously that's best. I've found it's very hard to imagine a color on a bike from a paint chip. Something about the narrow tubes as opposed to a monolithic wall of color. I've had two bikes PC'd in a color other than black. For one of them (cream), I liked it even more than I thought I would. For the other (sort of a Bianchi Celeste / sage green that looked great on a paint chip), I ended up displeased. Part of my displeasure was the glossiness, which made it look a yellowish, lime-green in certain light. I ended up taking steel wool to the powder coat finish to dull it, making the finish matte; I liked it much better. That bike was done over 10 years ago and the PC is still holding up well. If I were to do it all over again, I'd get a shade of green with more gray in it. Anton velolumino.com <https://live.staticflickr.com/2817/9760130161_77eaf1f767_b.jpg> On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 5:20:17 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Thanks, all, some good suggestions and some good advice about thinking > this through -- which is my purpose in asking such questions, since I do > know my own tastes. > > Actually, while I don't really like black or gray for frames, I have owned > several glossy black bikes that looked good; in fact, my first home-brew > paint job was hand sprayed (as in pump gun) gloss black oil-based enamel > with gold pin striping added by hand. Later I had a decent looking > battleship gray Stumpjumper Comp with orangy-red accents. > > But black shows dust too much. I find white boring; I didn't care for the > yellow of the Motobecane; and I already have a darkish (Ford) blue -- need > a different color to tell the bikes apart. (Kidding.) I recall a very nice > metallic dark green on a 1991 Stumpjumper Team, but you can't get that with > powdercoat, I imagine. In fact, you can't do metallic with your usual $150 > powdercoats, can you? > > Chauncey says he'll probably be able to get the sage green -- not > identical to but close enough to the original 2003 Joe Bell Rivendell sage > green; but if he can't, I'll ask for a Herse-like blue. > > Funny, I know that orange is a favorite on this list, but while I like it > better than yellow, I just for some reason don't care for it on a bike > frame. > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 8:55 AM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Chauncey just texted me saying that the powder coater is out of the >> near-match to the "sage green" that Joe Bell used for my 2003 custom -- >> frame later modified by Chauncey with the color in the photo below. >> >> I've asked him to see if the coater can order more, but while I wait on >> tenterhooks (is that metaphor appropriately applied? Weren't tenterhooks >> used for processing wool?), I ask y'all: what color would you choose for a >> new road frame to be built with color matched racks, silver VO fenders, and >> silver components? -- oh, and I like red accents: bar tape and panniers. >> >> Orange won't do b/c I like red, red won't do b/c I don't like red frames; >> no black or white -- bleh! I have Ford Blue already -- beautiful! -- and >> Forest Green. No turquoise or pink. Yellow, blech. >> >> Should be a color that is readily available in touch up quantities. >> >> Tell me what you think so that I can complain about your suggestion. >> >> Patrick "the *only* color for a Riv with fenders is Sage Green" Moore >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/868dbe45-1d87-45c7-9e3a-bbe2b2e0c136%40googlegroups.com.
