Ah, a topic near and dear to my heart...and one that strikes fear into DH (who has been hearing about purrrr-ty bike colors now for several weekends )

Contrary to DH's opinion, color choice for the bike is not a trivial decision nor one to be taken lightly. If we're spending this much money on a bike, we want that color to be right, right? We want that color to be awesome, right? Not to mention unique, telling something about us, and, of course, something we'll love 10 years down the road, no?

Shades of red just don't seem super popular right (...sigh...) now so it is hard to find good examples to get ideas from. I've surfed the web looking at the galleries of custom frame builders; two of Serrotta's forums is devoted to nothing but pictures of bicycles. I've found photos where people have had their bike painted to match their favorite clothing.

Gunnar posts frame colors of the month (http://www.waterfordbikes.com/gunnar...up.php?id=127). Check out their frame of the year and then picture it with a deep wine or cranberry color instead of the blue....wait, please don't like it--that's my latest color choice