Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Freewheeling => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 01 October, 2019, 01:36:26 pm
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Asking for a friend.
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Surely being a veteran of 90s mountain bikes is more significant than gender identity? ;D
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My club kit is pink, so it would match! :)
90s MTB surely means it has to be purple anodised?
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I bought and owned the magnificent gay disco for quite a few years, many of them after I'd been told what colours it was (I am very colour-blind).
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Had a pink motorbike, well pink fairing for a while...
The bike felt more visible in traffic.
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Paging Tim Hall, Tim Hall to the
Pink sorry, Magenta courtesy phone. :P
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https://www.pinkbike.com
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I'd be more inclined to buy a pink or purple bike than a black one.
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Paging Tim Hall, Tim Hall to the Pink sorry, Magenta courtesy phone. :P
Oi! The Magenta Mercian got repainted to a lovely Pearlescent Green a few years ago. Then it got stolen.
I had cause to collect my late FIL's bike from the police station a few years ago after he'd succumbed to a fatal heart attack. I thought the Magenta Mercian was pink, but his Gillot was pink. Bright pink. Almost bubble gum pink.
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New clear red
(https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/153109999170_/triumph-speed-triple-nuclear-red-pink-955-no.jpg)
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Nuclear Red, no?
As for the OP, my Roberts is pink, maybe even dusky pink, but the mismatched green forks make it fairly clear that I care not a jot for the aesthetics.
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Some may remember Clare OTP got a Mercian from Charlotte and had it sprayed pink. There's pics on here somewhere...
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I had an old Cannondale X bike powder coated lipstick pink with a lacquer sparkle coat. It's amazing the number of people who pass adverse comment. I think I'm going to attach a big pink dildo onto the handlebars to try and stop them.
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While I consider orange the proper color for a bicycle, there is a high-viz color Mitsubishi has used on their Mirage cars sold here in the USA which is a striking pink, though they call it "CASSIUS PURPLE METALLIC".If I were to want a bicycle in that color range, it's what I would pick.
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Are they faster or slower than red ones?
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Yes I do ;D and it is proper pink, none if this namby pamby magenta rubbish.
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I'm colour-blind, an unless I was concentrating I probably wouldn't notice.
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Only if it's a mid-80s Cannondale MTB.
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Surely being a veteran of 90s mountain bikes is more significant than gender identity? ;D
I had a pink Etto helmet* back then
*yes, it saved my life. ;D
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I used to commute on a cheap red bike that lived outside. As I always parked it the same way round at home the paint on one side became bleached. My mates reckoned it was pink but I claimed that it was (very) light red. The bike model name was ' Solar Damage' which I reckon is a pretty stupid name for a bike but seemed appropriate.
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Good name for a band, thobut.
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I’m surprised that no one has mentioned the Mercier team bikes. Especially when Barry Hoban rode one many UK riders went for pink - in fact many frame painters list “ Mercier Pink” .
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Though I've answered yes, I'd probably only buy black bikes in future for ease of touching up small defects, if I were still riding.
Basically, if you like it, get it!
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I have a fundamental objection to PINK. Usually as it's part of the "shrink it and pink it" approach that companies take to pay lip service to 51% of the population.
I do find rapha amusing due to their ability to make men, who would otherwise shun anything with pink on it, wear pink. Because it's made by rapha...
J
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I have a fundamental objection to PINK.
I used to feel that way, but I've become a bit more reclamatory about it in recent years. I do have standards, and will only consider sufficiently bright, neon pinks, preferably used in moderation in combination with plenty of BLACK; pastels can get to fuck. And purple's still better.
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I had a pink ME ultra fleece jacket in the early 80's. I think they claimed it was magenta. It was half price, at £16, and groovy out on the hills in fog.
But for bikes I like bikes in neutral colours so I can change the colour scheme now and again via the brake cable and bar tape colours, Pink is a bit too primary for that. Quite happy riding one though. Couldn't care less about colour, if it's a borrowed one or hired.
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I bought a pink Aende frame second-hand when I was a student, decades ago, and did much of my racing on it. I still have it.
Mind you, I had it resprayed blue at the end of that first season. It's currently purple and yellow.
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Nuclear Red, no?
I have called that colour no clear red as it clearly not red.
Still want a speed triple in that colour...
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I went for pearl white in the end, because:
1. I didn't know they did pearl white - it's not listed on the webshite
2. Pink would have cost an extra £45 as a special-order paint
3. Swindon is homophobic, racist and pretty much everything else you'd expect from a town that voted Leave.
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I had a mate used to own an Planet X Stealth nicknamed "the Pink Panther". I don't think it slowed him down.
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Pink used to be a gender neutral colour. until relatively recent time. If anything it was a bold masculine colour. In 1912 or sometime around then the Royal family published a colour photograph of young princes and princesses. The princes wore smart blue sailor and the princesses in pink dresses. This created a fashion for parents to dress their baby boys in blue and baby girls in Pink.
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I'm a fan of acid pink for cycling and wanted to get a pink frame when I was last shopping around for a frame.
Unfortunately could get one but compromised with Thorn's 'tonka yellow'..
My first Tonka toy! I had to play with my brother's when I was younger.
I do have some Rapha pink cycling tops too.
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I'm a fan of acid pink for cycling
I thought that was a mash-up of psychedelia and 2-chord guitar rock?
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My club colours used to be mostly pink. Cardiff Byways is the oldest continually active club in Cardiif. During the second world war the other old clubs stopped then restarted again. In our case the Ladies took over and the club adopted the pink tops. After the war the shirts were retained. I think the Audax group still use the pink shirts but the racer/TT folk changed.