I have 11 Rivendells. 7 of them are some shade of blue (5 are similar metallic blues, but the Betty Foy and Mystery Bike are very different non-metallic blues), two are non-metallic greens (Bombadil is Hunqapillar green, Rosco Bubbe is matte flanker green), a black Clementine and the orange metallic Custom. I like the golds. Don't like the silvers. Not a fan of mustard. I love the grey & kidney bean, cream pin striped combination. Orange is always a good choice. I would like to see more reds and purples and I would love a yellow - my fifty year old Paramount came in Kool Lemon, but Grant discouraged yellow on my custom due to it being hard to get a yellow that would go with the cream headtube. Not too wild about the Hunqapillar green, but I kind of like the matte flanker green. I would like to see a metallic root beer or a metallic copper.
Laing On Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 4:39:48 PM UTC-4 eric...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello friends — I've noticed that over the past few years Rivendell have > been using some of the same paint colors on many frames through several > production runs. If there's been a discussion of this practice, I've missed > it. > > I can't quite put my finger on it but something about the same paint > appearing on frames over and over leaves me scratching my head. Perhaps > there's a missed opportunity to pin a color to a model or to cycle in new > colors with new batches of frames? > > What do other members think? Do you appreciate the same colors appearing > on different frames? Do you wish there was a wider variety of colors? Does > it matter at all? > > Some of these colors I like quite a lot, others I appreciate. There isn't > one that I dislike. The Lime Olive is always striking when it appears on a > new frame, love it on the Hillbornes and Clems. > > The harvest gold, wow, looks killer on those Susies. Blew my mind on the > Homers because they've always been a blue bike. > > I do miss the mustard from the older Appaloosas and the dark bronze that > appeared on some Clems. These two colors paired with some of the newer > colors currently in use demonstrate, I think, that Riv has some of the best > paint colors in the biz. Really lovely stuff. > > Here's a far-from-complete list more or less off the top of my head of > where current production colors have appeared: > > *Lime-olive* > Platypus > Susie > Hillborne > Clem > > *Mermaid* > Appaloosa > Platypus > Roadini > Gus > > *Harvest/Dark Gold* > Hillborne > Homer > Susie > > *Ana Purple* > Rosco Plat > Appaloosa (next batch in 2023?) > Road Uno or Gallop? (I can't remember but thought the purple was slated > for one of these frames) > > *RBW Orange* > Appaloosa > Roadini > Gus > > *RBW Blue* > Too many to list? > Appaloosa > Clem > Hillborne > > -- 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/697a3dca-1a6b-4adf-8b67-dd781eafde5en%40googlegroups.com.
