Proper bicycle accessorizing

[KnottedYet]

My Surly blows a wolf-whistle at your Surly.

I need to take a current picture of mine, she has lovely red Spokees (from TE) and matching red bottle cages now. She's the most matching-est of my bikes.

[divingbiker]

I am not qualified to weigh in on this, because my front and back wheels on my road bike don't even match. I really don't get all the matchy-matchiness business, but then I'm fashion-challenged in every way possible.

[Kalidurga]

Oo00oh man, you should'na posted that pic My latest object of bike lust is a Cross-Check. Maybe even with a Brooks. But also with fenders. Unfortunately, my lust will remain unsatisfied until I finish paying down the vet bills on my credit card...



I love my cats, I love my cats, I WANT THAT BIKE, I love my cats, really, I love my cats...

[Kalidurga]

Oh, and I think you match just fine. The bottle cages and silver trim on the bike coordinate very nicely with your silver seat post.

Though I do agree with Regina. Brown bar tape would look great with your brown Brooks.

[lph]

I agree that brown bar tape would match the Brooks beautifully, and I think that your gorgeous bike would look even better with a shiny black seatpost. It would pick up the black fork and stem and you'd have all black lines with the silver bits just as touches here and there. I like large amounts of the "main" colour

[xeney]

I am having this problem on my Soma. The chrome lugs make me want to have everything silver, but my husband is grumpy about the fact that (a) I already have a set of perfectly functional black bars, and (b) he bought me a Ritchey adjustable stem in black before we found another one by a different manufacturer in silver, and (c) none of the silvers will exactly match, anyway.

But since I've determined that I can't use a Brooks saddle anyway, I've also decided that I don't really care about any of this. My saddle is black, I'll probably get a black seatpost, I don't care. The bike is still pretty.

My spacers are red, incidentally, because he couldn't find silver ones locally. They match the frame color, and are probably a little goofy, but I prefer to think of them as "whimsical."

[uforgot]

I really had a hard time finding silver stems and seatposts. Especially with quality threadless stems. There really isn't a lot of choice of sizes in that color and manufacturers like Ritchey who used to make silver, make them all in black now. Lots of black out there, so of course I prefer silver!

[Ninabike]

I think the silver seatpost looks great with the Brooks saddle - kind of the more classic look when all seatposts were silver and everyone had Brooks saddles. If I wanted to match, I would look for a silver stem. Then there is having to look for silver chainrings, etc., and on.. and on.. Very neat-looking bike!!

[bike4ever]

Thomson has a nice selection of silver stems - same sizes they carry in Black.

[arielmoon]

I think she's lovely the way she is!

[Blueberry]

I need to take an updated picture when I get home, but here's my Surly. She now has pink bottle cages Silver stem, spacers and seatpost + a Brooks (now a B17, instead of the B17S here).

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[alpinerabbit]

You wanna be surly? Take this stem: from Dirty Dog.

[GLC1968]

Heh - after reading this, I had to go find photos of my bike. I never noticed that my stem and seat post matched on my road bike. It just turned out that way when I got it fitted!

My commuter is not matching. I don't even have two matching tires on that bike! My stem is black and my seat post is silver like my frame. Plus, having such short legs, very little of my seat post even shows...so it's hardly obvious. Considering this is what mine looks like, I think yours looks just fine the way it is!

[Blueberry]

I think they're all pretty But, I've rarely met a bike I didn't find so

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[oxysback]

Heh - after reading this, I had to go find photos of my bike. I never noticed that my stem and seat post matched on my road bike. It just turned out that way when I got it fitted!

My commuter is not matching. I don't even have two matching tires on that bike! My stem is black and my seat post is silver like my frame. Plus, having such short legs, very little of my seat post even shows...so it's hardly obvious. Considering this is what mine looks like, I think yours looks just fine the way it is!

Are your wheels two different sizes or is that just an illusion?

My seat post comes out a bit more than yours, but I've found it's annoying to find bags that don't end up rubbing on the tire.