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[Closed] First World problem...blue or red frame?!

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Looking to buy a Dolan Preffisio road bike frame to build up a cheap ish winter bike. Can't decide on the colour though...Red or blue?!

[url= ]Red or Blue Linky...[/url]

Suggestions welcome!


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:35 pm
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Blue (although red is always going to be faster)


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:37 pm
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Red = faster!


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:38 pm
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the blue looks nice


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:44 pm
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I see the problem. The blue has a sophistication about it, while the red has fiery attraction.

So... sophisticated or passionate?

Ask your significant other.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:45 pm
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I have a red bike. It looks loooovely.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:46 pm
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[IMG] [/IMG]

Blue!


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:47 pm
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The Blue looks a bit [s]Golf substitute[/s] 'IT crowd'.
The Red looks better,but still a bit 'my first Sportive/KOM* hunter'

* [i]King Of Molehills[/i]

🙂 😛


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:47 pm
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Red looks great.

The blue looks like the colour scheme from an Aldi/Lidl cycling jersey.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:51 pm
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You really don't need to prefix your thread with "First world problem"

99.999% (low estimate) of threads in Bike forum are First World problems...


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 1:56 pm
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Even tougher in the fully built shots...

[url= https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRgB8-PbYlAuhZbyqqIlPVAQG5V2JILSWE7d9bsYqg6DhZpFlLv ]Red. ...[/url]

[url= ]Blue. ..[/url]

As for asking the wife...no chance. Im going for the it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission route on this one...


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 2:01 pm
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The blue looks like the colour scheme from an Aldi/Lidl cycling jersey.

[url= http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/lidl-signs-two-year-sponsorship-deal-with-etixx-quick-step-193700 ]Lidl sponsors Etixx-Quick Step who Marcel Kittel's just signed for...[/url]

+1 for blue


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 2:03 pm
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As for asking the wife...no chance. Im going for the it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission route on this one...

i always want to do that, but then i realise its my money and my wife wouldnt care. its much harder to convince myself i 'need' to have a new 29r Rigid .....like in that thread earlier in the week.......


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 2:07 pm
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[i]Even [s]tougher[/s][b]easier[/b] in the fully built shots...[/i]

The blue is just so dull.

Red.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 2:55 pm
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Defo blue.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 2:56 pm
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Ive just been looking at those and having the same thoughts..
Think I may go for red.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 3:51 pm
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Blimey 90 quid for the frame. At that price get a blue and a red one! Ride the one that matches your mood 🙂


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 3:53 pm
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Which colour will it be easier to get matching lycra for? Choose that one.

Seriously, though, I am now sold on the blue.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 3:53 pm
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90 quid?! Where is that? 200 on ' t website. I'm edging towards blue now but was red yesterday....


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 3:57 pm
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Built up I think the blue edges it but maybe just because the red one looks more orange in that photo. I reckon blue but with white bar tape and saddle.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 3:59 pm
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red, see lots in blue round here


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 4:28 pm
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Red.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 4:33 pm
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Red.

the blue looks like it came straight out of 2008.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 4:36 pm
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Is there such a thing as a zeroth world problem?


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 4:38 pm
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They both look like an explosion in a Chinese tat factory.

In 2003.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 8:03 pm
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Which one matches your kit?

Either would match mine, so red. Always red. Red bikes are faster. Not as fast as white bikes#, but fast nevertheless.

# New white propel is faster than old black and red one. I put this down to not enough redness.


 
Posted : 08/10/2015 8:09 pm

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