Pink bike?

[Phil W]

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.

[drossall]

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.

[Gattopardo]

Nuclear Red, no?

I have called that colour no clear red as it clearly not red.

Still want a speed triple in that colour...

[rogerzilla]

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.

[ElyDave]

I had a mate used to own an Planet X Stealth nicknamed "the Pink Panther". I don't think it slowed him down.

[CommuteTooFar]

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.

[mllePB]

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.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I'm a fan of acid pink for cycling

I thought that was a mash-up of psychedelia and 2-chord guitar rock?

[CommuteTooFar]

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.