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I'm cursed with a love for bright, colourful bikes, but also very little taste or restraint, so for Orbea to be offering custom paint jobs is frankly irresponsible.
By copying some classic paintschemes, and incorporating my family's frankly tenuous Italian links I think I've come up with some relatively tasteful paint schemes.
Would these look at home on the road and on the CX course? Bear in mind they'll have some Challenge Limus tan wall tyres on them with extra Italian flag logos!
'Azzuri Wannabe'
'Irn Bru Nostalgia'
'Bubblegum Nightmare'
'Tricolore Pretention'
Azzuri for me.
Bubblegum nightmare, but get the lettering in green.
In fairness, I think they are all pretty tasteful...
Orange for me please. But without that white bit, and darker blue stickers
Irn bru but with white and blue swapped.
The Azzuri one for me... But I do like all of them!
In fairness, I think they are all pretty horrific…
Orange for me please. But without that white bit, and darker blue stickers
Nice, but too restrained for my liking!
Irn bru but with white and blue swapped.
Like it, can't tell if I prefer it to the original though
Bubblegum nightmare, but get the lettering in green.
A definite improvement! Wonder if the tan wall tyres would be a step too far though...
In fairness, I think they are all pretty horrific…
Thank you! That was the sort of response I was expecting, had been getting worried for a minute.
How does the Azzuri look with orange instead of white stickers?
Have you seen those colour blind tests that electrical folk have to do?... ha.
I like the orange one best ,but with the baby blue logo. 🙂
Can you not add some abhorrent bartape for extra rankness? The bubblegum one is horrific! (by that i mean great)
How does the Azzuri look with orange instead of white stickers?
Hmm... confusing and non-conformist, it scares me!
Can you not add some abhorrent bartape for extra rankness?
Think I might have to, the paint jobs alone aren't generating enough revulsion!
Do they come stock with the slammed stem?
No tartan/plaid option? #poor
Do they come stock with the slammed stem?
Even if they did they have a 600mm stack measurement in a size large, that's pretty damn tall!
Just no!
This:
(Also acceptable with logo in white instead of jade)
I don't think an Italian flag on a Spanish bike is permissible. On the other hand, that's the only one of your colour choices that isn't awful 😉
Hmm… confusing and non-conformist, it scares me!
Let's be honest OP,the only thing that scares you is the attention that your squealing brakes attract >big smiley face<
I'd go full Sky Blue with Metallic Orange decals and maybe replace the bar tape/saddle with white.
Gulf Colours.
Nope, none of them should see the light of day.
Let’s be honest OP,the only thing that scares you is the attention that your squealing brakes attract
Yeah but I'm getting therapy for that, one day I shall embrace the demented screech of a wet rotor...
Gulf Colours.
Pretty cool, but Gulf colours (what is that, F1?) are meaningless to me, I need to *connect* with the paint scheme, deep down.
Orange and blue is too Rabobank. Orange obviously works with the Basque connection, as does red/green/white:
Have to confess I have lusted after a Terra for quite a while.
Mine always comes out as black.
My vote to Tricolore Pretention
Taste is for idiots.
Go with whichever one makes you smile the most!
(I like the pink ones)
(what is that, F1?)
Le Mans.
Is the custom paint option extra? If so I’d save the money, go with a standard colour, then have a custom painter really go to town.
Taste is for idiots.
...I like the pink ones
Taste is subjective, it’s only ‘for idiots‘* when you don’t like the same colour as do the majority of idiots*
*Requires objective definition🤪
Hmm...
or...
Place your votes! 😆
Is the custom paint option extra?
No, but only available above a certain price range.
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Is the custom paint option extra?
Don't think so, you can use the MyO configurator on their website for a few of their higher specced bikes. I've spent a bit of time musing on the colours for a Rallon.
Try yellow lettering on the pink.
I think I’ve come up with some relatively tasteful paint schemes
I'm not yet seeing any evidence to back up this claim 😉
If you like it then that's what matters, there's literally no point asking for opinions on colour schemes from other people unless you're buying a bike to please them instead of you, and even then you'll only please some of them, so be selfish and get what you like!
The other thing to consider is what kit you wear. My road bike is blue and it's a PITA because it clashes with most of my road kit which is black (fine), red (not really) or green (definitely not fine).
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The other thing to consider is what kit you wear. My road bike is blue and it’s a PITA because it clashes with most of my road kit which is black (fine), red (not really) or green (definitely not fine).
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White toptube bit definitely doesn't work nor does the random seat tube colour. Toptube bit matching front of fork is a no-brainer.
If I had a ‘tan‘ like those I’d be seeking a good hepatologist 😬
I'd go for the Irn Bru one - as long as it's not made from girders...