Help with color coordination

[redrhodie]

This must sound so wrong , but I love dirty white tape, the patina of old rides showing. I clean my tape, like, twice a year.

That blue will look good, though.

[OakLeaf]

The tires look really good on it. So I want to match them with the bar tape.

Funny story: a couple of weeks ago I brought my bike to the LBS for them to install a new chain and cassette. The owner was on the phone and there were two other people waiting for him. Men in suits - I don't know if they were insurance guys, missionaries or what, but they didn't look like bike people, which was reinforced by the question one of them asked me:

"Excuse me, ma'am, how did your tires get blue?"

How did they get blue? Just then the shop owner got off the phone and came up front. I was in a bit of a hurry, but mostly I was so dumbfounded I couldn't think of how to answer that question.


PS - my eyes are brown. Don't think that would look so great with the bike

[SouthernBelle]

Stripe the black & blue!

I was asked if my SPD M505 pedals were broken.

[Aggie_Ama]

I have dark blue on my Cannondale now, it looks okay but is a little too dark like the black. I had light blue, it looked good but not right with the Maxxis tires I was running. Now I am back to black and may do the lighter tape again.

Blue on that frame is great looking, let us know what you pick. That Specialized looks nice, might have to try it.

[Cataboo]

I'd do yellow bar tape, just 'cause I have yellow on my blue bike and like it a lot. (yellow was on sale, and I was being cheap when I bought it). I have grey silver tires though.

[aicabsolut]

Fizik microtex (regular, not "soft touch") is really easy to clean, even the white. It is, however, not at all cushy. I don't have much of a problem keeping the white S-wrap clean. I used to have the blue, and I had to clean it almost as often. A shop around here uses degreaser (like White Lightening clean streak) to clean bar tape. I've seen it work really really well on the S-wrap.