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  1. #1
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    Lightbulb Help! What color?

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    I'm looking for suggestions for a paint job for my carbon Orbea Diva that has been repaired. The original color was the pistachio green and the black carbon thus that is how I got the name "Grasshopper" and also quite a few jerseys to match that color. Had a crash back in June and ended up with a crack in the top tube. Now I have had it repaired at the Calfee factory in Santa Cruz. A local guy in our club has offered to paint it. He recommends a pearl white over the carbon and then a bright contrast color. He showed me one in a royal blue with black outlining on the pearl white today that really looked sharp. Then I was thinking of a deep purple/fuschia or I have always wanted a red bike...Also he can put anything on it, my name, or he makes up Italian names for his bikes.
    It will be my back up bike. We had a trip planned and I needed a bike so ended up with a Giant Avail with Di2, grey. They say once you have the electric, you won't want anything else. The Diva was such a good fit and so light. I know I will enjoy riding it again. Open to any suggestions, ideas.
    '08 Orbea Diva, Pistachio

  2. #2
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    Can you use his royal blue design but go back to the pistachio? Or mix the pistachio with the purple/fuschia? (I accent my Bianchi's celeste with hot pink/fuschia, and I like it, but I live in Miami, so that Miami Vice look works!)
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    You should put a Spanish name on it since it's a Spanish bike. How about red and Carmen. Oh wait! That's MY red bike's name (made in New Mexico)!

  4. #4
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    Thanks! Both are good ideas that have me thinking. My first real road bike was a Centurion that was Celeste with pink cables. That was before they had WSD bikes in the Miami Vice days.
    and yes a Spanish name.
    '08 Orbea Diva, Pistachio

  5. #5
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    My bike is a deep forest green and a deep purple. The lettering is silver & sparkly. It turned out quite striking and unlike any other bike on the road.
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  6. #6
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    nothing hotter than a red bike.
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