Re: [CR]Worse color for a classic bike...

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:38:47 +1200
From: "Wayne Davidson" <wayne.collect@xtra.co.nz>
To: wheelman@nac.net
Subject: Re: [CR]Worse color for a classic bike...
References: <16748.65.220.90.243.1208888627.squirrel@webmail.nac.net>
In-Reply-To: <16748.65.220.90.243.1208888627.squirrel@webmail.nac.net>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Hi all, I fully agree, I don't even wear brown clothing. I've not seen many brown bikes, but once I saw a brown and pink frame, almost enough to make one lose their last meal...........rgards wayne davidson Invers NZ...........

wheelman@nac.net wrote:
> This has been eating at me for some time now. There are many colors that I
> do not like on classic bikes. Many come from that period of cultural
> confusion the 80s where the two tone, fade one into another really made
> for some horrible combinations. Still my worse ever single color for a
> classic bicycle is brown. I don't care if it is metallic brown, opaque,
> root beer. Brown is brown and does not enhance either the chrome, the
> saddles or the tires.
>
> There, I got it off my chest, now let the pro brown group chime in.
>
> Ray Homiski
> Elizabeth, NJ