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

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:11:07 -0400
From: "Michael Schmidt" <mdschmidt56@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Worse color for a classic bike...
In-reply-to: <796836.17890.qm@web82204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
To: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, <wheelman@nac.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Thread-topic: [CR]Worse color for a classic bike...
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Sky Blue Pink, ok?

Who gives a hoot. If anything, the respondents showed diversified taste.

Mike Schmidt Stirling, NJ USA

On 4/22/08 9:59 PM, "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Well, there is brown and there is brown.
>
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Austria/A-D_Moos1.htm
>
> Here is my Austro-Daimler Superleicht on the CR website, Originally tan,
> but the late Ray Gasorowski, builder of Romic Cycles, repainted it chocolate
> brown but preserving the tan on panels with the original decals. Personally,
> I like it, but maybe that's only because it reminds me of Ray.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, Texas, USA
>
>
>
>
> 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