How important is bike color to you?

[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.

[oxysback]

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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.

That frame is GORGEOUS in person! I got a glimpse of it at the TE sidewalk sale a few months ago.

[obie]

It's the bike on the right - I'll try to find a better photo; I'm really bad at tech stuff
But picture the blue side having metallic silver stars and then fading away into total silver...

(location: Ashokan Reservoir, Catskill Mountains of NY)

[sfa]

what is OD green? Overdose?

OD = olive drab