Nice bike - shame 'bout the colour scheme ...

[Duck on Wheels]

Of course color matters. It practically becomes an article of clothing, a part of your total body image, especially if you ride a lot. Not that I took it into account when I bought a bike for my sabbatical year. This is just a 1-year bike that I don't want to worry about leaving behind (and I won't, will I Trek420!). But that doesn't mean I don't care about how things look. I actually got serious about training and shipped my clunker bike all the way to California to ride the Cinderella Classic just so I could feel I deserved to buy that gorgeous 30th anniversary jersey. And remember, I'd never owned a bike jersey at all before.

[MomOnBike]

Color matters. If looking at/thinking about/riding your bike doesn't make you smile, why do it?

My bikes are blue BTW, William is a lovely blue flake/silver combo that just makes me smile. {sigh}

Walter is a somewhat faded by now deep blue.

[KnottedYet]

Mine is a pale silver blue. I was really drawn to the color. It's not a WSD bike, but it sounds like that's a WSD color. Bummer.

My favorite colors are blue, green, purple, and silver. I don't think I've ever had a green, purple, or silver bike.

(hmmmm blue, white, brown, white, red, yellow, blue, black, silver-blue)

Seems like there must've been a green in there somewhere, but I guess not.

[Trek420]

"Lavender Menace" the Road bike is a metalic lavender, the paint chip that I agonised over for days said metalic plum.

"Bradley" the GT outpost trail is deep blue

"Mixte Fixie" the Motobecane project bike is a metalic Green Tea color

Oh, and I'm Aries, woops, wrong thread

[KnottedYet]

Oh! "Lavender Menace"!!! Very nice!

Geez, I gotta come up with a name for my Dew....

[KnottedYet]

Used to be a library-chick. "Dewey Decimator"?

Low self-esteem. "Dew-Dew"?

Took French for 6 months in HS. "Un, Dew, Trois"?

UU living by the golden rule. "Dew Unto Others"?

Gotta dog. "Dr. Dewlittle"?

Not gettin' any. "Dew Me"?

Skeptical and cynical by nature. "Dewbious"?

Like to solve problems. "Dews ex Machina"?

Enjoy obscure scientific jargon. "Dewteron"?

My prickly stinky sweet personality. "Dewrian"?

[Trek420]

thank you!

Trek-subtle is my middle name-420

Adventurous - "Where Dew you want to ride today?"

Likes Frank - "Dewbe Dewbe Dew"

[kjay]

This is such a fun thread. I, too, have been sorely disappointed in WSD colors . . wouldn't even test ride Trek's bright blue bike or the black one with pink letters. Oh, to be able to afford Project One in order to come up with my own color scheme. Anway, just wanted to thank you all for the interesting comments here. Color does matter!

[Selkie]

Color matters to a degree for me. I'm indifferent to the colors of my Dolces--a blue one and a red one. My Bianchi is that beautiful muted celeste green. My Luna Eclipse is pink, which I love. Funny that my steel frame bikes are my favorites and I really like their colors.
I have to decide what color I'm going to pick for the Orbit that Luna is building for me.
There's a guy whom I see every day who rides a flourescent pink bike, and another whose ride is flourescent orange (I think these must be anti-theft paint jobs because both guys are commuters).

[allabouteva]

but the Orbea comes in pink and white (no, thanks)
KB

ok, I have one of those!

And I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but hey it's me! And I lurrvve my pink and white Orbea Aqua Dama with Campy everything, it goes like a dream, the all boy household which I live in (1 DH and 2 sons) stay well away from it. So I know it's only going to be ridden by me.

There's room in the world for everyone and their tastes... As long as you love your bike and of course you've got to love the look of it too.

[DeniseGoldberg]

You do realize that not liking the colors of the available pre-built frames gives you a built-in excuse to buy a custom frame, don't you?

--- Denise

[uk elephant]

Must admit I didn't worry too much about the colour when I bought my bike, but I do like the all black. And just to add a touch of colour, I have a bright red bottle cage on it. I think it looks very cool. But if I could choose my very own colour, I'm sure red would be up there. If I ever win the lottery and can afford a custom bike, maybe.....

[KnottedYet]

Nother color trend that I find interesting: the prevalence of army-styled colors. All the dull camo greens and grays and army-boot black.

Bianchi Volpe and Surly LHT and all the Marin bikes for example. Seems like everywhere I look the touring/cyclocross/fixie type bikes are modeled after the military palette.

[Lise]

I think ukeliphant's bike sounds cool--black with red cages. Sounds like a stealth bike, a secret mission bike (I have a rich fantasy life when it comes to who I am when I'm on a bike, eh? ).

A bit OT, but it made me think of this thread--I was listening to the BBC news hour on NPR, and they were talking about the EU carbon emission "scheme". A "scheme" to an American is something sneaky, something not completely above-board. So it sounds like the EU's trying to get away with something carbon-related! OK, I know, we're colonial goofs. L.

[tamara_69]

When I went to buy my bike, the LBS had a dark green one on sale. EWWW! I don't care how good the price is, if you hate the color, it won't matter. I ended up with a red one.