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dyna-ti · Dec 18, 2015

We've all done it. We've seen the bikes in botm all dressed up to the nines with matching coloured bits.

Thing is ,i dont ever remember seeing bikes such as these :? My bike in the 90's and all my friends bikes, were a mismatch of colours.
Front hub one colour, rear another. Bars and stem, if gone beyond black, would be blue bars with a daygo yellow stem, and then you may even have a red bar brace.

The closest I've seen as 'matching' was using coloured felt tip pens to colour the tops of the bolts.

Anyone else feel the need to mix it all up ?, t'hell with taste

*Spokey-dokeys optional*

foz · Dec 18, 2015

but back in the 90's wasn't it the done thing to have everything a different colour, non of them matching, and at least half of them in fluo-something or other?

Leighcal · Dec 18, 2015

So what's wrong with doing the same now? It will all come around again anyway, just like everything else does.

The History Man · Dec 18, 2015

You were saying?

al · Dec 18, 2015

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I've never mixed colours up on a bike and wouldn't sleep at night knowing clashing anno stuff was on my bike... shame on anyone for doing this kind of thing.

Saying that, I do have a soft spot for Gold/Red combination, but to just slap on different colours together, what is wrong with you people!!

and relax...

al.

dyna-ti · Dec 23, 2015

The History Man":3jo6tlex said:
You were saying?

Ahh, but thats a boy band, specifically cobbled together in mismatch

Ive a Marin to build, though it doesnt fit me :roll: and ive all the bits but different colours. My ti looks very nice in polished ti and purple Hope,as it did dressed in red ano hope, but doing the same here in red or a crazy combo of whatever i have that fits.
Its a good frame and i dont want to spoil it with crummy components, a lot of high end period stuff going on it.
Matching bits are likely to be impossible to find or not cheap.

Our ano came from things like motorbikes and looking there, you hardly see two the same :? Are we all becoming snobs ?

Ghosty · Dec 23, 2015

As far as black/silver etc is concerned I don't really bother, but other than that I try to keep to one or two colours.

firedfromthecircus · Dec 23, 2015

dyna-ti":37qk780h said:
Are we all becoming snobs ?

I don't think it's being snobs as such, but being older our tastes will have developed somewhat.

The other thing is the bikes we build are not generally carbon copies of what we had BITD. OK some folk may do that, but it is usually a sort of hyper reality that we are after. The bikes we wished we had, the build we wished we could afford.

usniniasen · Thursday at 10:09

Haha, I love nostalgia! 90s bikes were like a kaleidoscope, no cookie-cutter matching, just pure chaos and personality. I still mix and match when I ride now, with mismatched hubs and bolts painted with markers. Hubs? So tempting! Who else can keep up the wild spirit? Want to enjoy an uninterrupted ride away from the distraction of mobile phone ringing, jammermfg can do it!

ishaw · Thursday at 12:22

Bits we rode bikes, added a bit of bling here and there as we could afford, replaced a bit here, a bit there and the end result, colour, colour everywhere and parts not matching.

The botm builds are labours of love, like a Concours car, to be shown and not ridden (mostly I'd say), hence the careful colour choices and parts selections.

My RTS-2 bitd had purple, turquoise, hope hub up front in silver/ti, LX rear in black. And mismatched Mavic rims, but at least both silver. I polished the cranks and stem silver, black og post and bars, may even have had purple onza grips at one point. Loved it.

Would I build a bike like that now, no chance.

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