Where Oh Where Might My New Orbea Be?

[NbyNW]

What an awesome LBS! So glad you will have something to ride until YOUR Orbea comes.

Am I the only who who doesn't even consider color in buying a bike? I mean, if it was puke green, maybe I would say no, but if it was the bike I wanted, I took it, for all 5 bikes I have bought.

In general I have pretty much just let color be an incidental thing to my bike purchases, since getting a good fit can be such a challenge; but I have found that the more I spend on a bike, the more I care about the color

My oldest (and cheapest) bike is a color I actually hate, since I bought it in my 20s when it was REALLY hard to part with any kind of cash. So I decided to sleep on the decision for a night and when I got to the shop the next day the color I liked had sold out. So I ended up with this pissy metallic yellow mountain bike. I still think the color is terrible, but the upside is that I think the color has made it theft-proof! That bike has been with me for 12 years, through SF, Cambridge, NYC and Seattle. I don't think I could pay anyone to take it off my hands!

When I got fitted for my road bike a couple of years ago, they said you can take this green bike home today, or if you want some other color we can deliver it to you in 3-4 weeks. I wasn't crazy about the green and honestly the concept of choosing a color scheme was mind-blowing. For what I budgeted for that bike, might as well go for it, right?