I really should be working, but bike paint has been on my mind lately. Specifically, how little I like the current offerings from bike companies. It seems that decals and marketing priorities have taken over in the paint department of most manufacturers.
So I decided to put together my own paint scheme. It prominently features paint fades – as all paint jobs in my world should. I also went with blue, because I like blue. I also did scallops near the head tube – not an earth shattering design element, I know – but you know what? It looks good! I also decided that my good luck symbol would be the symbol of the area of my birth – the Fleur de lis. Granted that symbol hasn’t been lucky for the New Orleans Saints, but that’s football – completely different sport.
So behold the mighty Dumbass! I would’ve put more time into the logo also, but I don’t have any more time.
poop!
nice paint but is it laterally stiff yet vertically compliant? or vertically stiff yet laterally compliant?
is that an integrated headtube/front fork? sweet
Will be painfully compliant vertically. And it will have a drink holder.
you could do like motorbikes these days and use the frame as a reservoir to hold gu/gatorade/BALCO products.
just think with that massive bb area you could also hide a kilo of coke and cross the border from mexico “nothing to declare officer”. sweet!
Tastes differ but I haven’t seen anything that’s as ugly and cheap looking as Dumbass put out by a major bike company.
What about this?
http://images.competitivecyclist.com/images/products/colnago/2007/extreme_main.jpg
red bikes are faster.
Clear bikes are fastest!
come on, Dan…the colnago wedding anniversary bike is WAY uglier
http://www.chicagolandbicycle.com/colnagonew.htm
clear might be fast, but red is faster.
like a department store bike
it looks heavy
f_ _ _ the paint and ride your bike!!!
I like how you matched the paint to the fork. How did you do that?
I did it with pixels!
is a Cervelo soloist carbon. It aint heavy
a red cervelo soloist is in fact faster than a blue cervelo soloist.
Proving in the wind tunnel.
red paint is faster then blue. No blue sports cars?
That would cost to much for custom paint.
You are a dumbass I also dislike Adler
I do my cool-down on a blue bike, and race on red, more proof that red may just be faster.
Can specialized jam its’ name anymore times on a frame? I really dont think so.
Are the fastes followed by Red and Black in a tie.
this is crazy. color doesn’t make a bike faster.
this is crazy. color doesn’t make a bike faster.
Can specialized jam its’ name anymore times on a frame? I really dont think so.
Are the fastes followed by Red and Black in a tie.
red paint is faster then blue. No blue sports cars?
That would cost to much for custom paint.
You are a dumbass I also dislike Adler
I do my cool-down on a blue bike, and race on red, more proof that red may just be faster.
a red cervelo soloist is in fact faster than a blue cervelo soloist.
Proving in the wind tunnel.
I did it with pixels!
is a Cervelo soloist carbon. It aint heavy
I like how you matched the paint to the fork. How did you do that?
it looks heavy
f_ _ _ the paint and ride your bike!!!
clear might be fast, but red is faster.
like a department store bike
http://www.chicagolandbicycle.com/colnagonew.htm
red bikes are faster.
Clear bikes are fastest!
come on, Dan…the colnago wedding anniversary bike is WAY uglier
What about this?
http://images.competitivecyclist.com/images/products/colnago/2007/extreme_main.jpg
Tastes differ but I haven’t seen anything that’s as ugly and cheap looking as Dumbass put out by a major bike company.
you could do like motorbikes these days and use the frame as a reservoir to hold gu/gatorade/BALCO products.
just think with that massive bb area you could also hide a kilo of coke and cross the border from mexico “nothing to declare officer”. sweet!
is that an integrated headtube/front fork? sweet
Will be painfully compliant vertically. And it will have a drink holder.
nice paint but is it laterally stiff yet vertically compliant? or vertically stiff yet laterally compliant?
poop!