How important is bike color to you?

[singletrackmind]

My first mtn bike was neon yellow with black splatters, it was appalling. The second is dark blue and I found I missed my squinty-eye bike. I made up for it with the third, a bright easter egg green. My road bike is white (bleh) and my tandem black/silver/grey (super-bleh). I don't regret any of them because they had what I needed at a price I could deal with.
But that's just me.

[Meg McKilty]

This reminds me of this thread:
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...ight=Dear+Bike

We had huge anger issues about people caring what color was appropriate or tacky during the thread. Very interesting how people deem what colors are "fru-fru" or "girly" and what colors are not.

[wildhawk]

I think all bikes are interesting - regardless of color. However the year we purchased my bike - the ladies version of it was a deep, dark purple and the men’s was a cool black and red. Eventhough my previous mtb was black, the men’s version could not be fitted to me in my hybrid. So purple was the choice for me. I did not like her at first, but now have grown to like the deep, dark purple. She looks almost black in certain light and I am more into function than looks. The prettiest bike in the world does not mean squat if it causes you pain and is not the right size for you. Just ask my knees - that mtb had to go… I love my purple hybrid bike!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Very interesting how people deem what colors are "fru-fru" or "girly" and what colors are not.

What colors are 'girly'?....Just walk into any Target or Wal-mart or JCPenny little girl clothes section and you'll see that 90% of all the clothing there is either pink or lavender.
Not saying girly is good or bad, but pink & lavender are definitely viewed these days as 'girly' colors by our society.

Interestingly, 25 years ago when my two daughters little, I remember there being a lot more primary (Sesame St. type) colors in the little girls departments...more reds and yellows and greens and blues mixed in with the pinks and lavenders. But now it's like a solid WALL of pink and lavender that greets you. As an artist I notice these things. Hmmm...what direction are we headed in?

[Biciclista]

what is OD green? Overdose?

Lisa, funny you mention the pink and purple. A coworker of mine was telling me that his middle daughter at the age of 3 told him that he couldn't wear pink, pink was for girls!

That was before she'd ever been to school and she already knew.

[fastdogs]

OD green = olive drab. The non shiny olive color, my 4 year old calls it "army color".
He also has a distinct idea what is "girl stuff". anything pink or lavender or purple.

[obie]

I have to admit, when I bought my save-up-for-years-to-buy-the-bike-to-last-me-a-lifetime bike, I ended up requesting a special paintjob, with custom colors no less. it is blue fading into silver, with silver stars on the blue. It makes me happy every time I look at it. SO great! So although I still feel self-conscious about a scrapper like me having such a fancy bike, I have never ever regretted the paint job. It is awesome. One of the staff people at Seven told me they were referring to it as the "Wonder Woman bike" - they were going to use it for their catalog but the paint wasn't dry enough yet on the day of the shoot!

My other bikes: I have one WSD bike and luckily it's red without too many swirly bits.

[jobob]

I have to admit, when I bought my save-up-for-years-to-buy-the-bike-to-last-me-a-lifetime bike, I ended up requesting a special paintjob, with custom colors no less. it is blue fading into silver, with silver stars on the blue. It makes me happy every time I look at it. SO great! So although I still feel self-conscious about a scrapper like me having such a fancy bike, I have never ever regretted the paint job. It is awesome. One of the staff people at Seven told me they were referring to it as the "Wonder Woman bike" - they were going to use it for their catalog but the paint wasn't dry enough yet on the day of the shoot!

Quit taunting us, we need pictures!!

[jobob]

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Here's my kinda-sorta pink bike, I already yammered about it here on Meg's thread.



This was after I had it repainted the exact same color.

[sfa]

what is OD green? Overdose?

OD = olive drab