Color survey! Would love some feedback, getting powder for a Surly Travelers Check

[Alex Wirth- Owner, Yellow Haus Bicycles]

So here's my thoughts each color combo gets a number....and you are only allowed one choice :-)  The first three are a combo, rear half and fork gets one color and main triangle/headtube gets another.

1. Turquoise/yellow

2.Red/grey

3. Blue/blue

4. Lilac (single color)

Commence!

Alex in Rochester, NY

[George Schick]

I'd pick the #2 red/grey, t'was me.  But, just out of curiosity, why powder instead of a regular spray paint job?

[Kainalu V. -Brooklyn NY]

#3
-Kai

[Alex Wirth- Owner, Yellow Haus Bicycles]

Great question, George!

1.Wet paint would need to be shipped out adding another ~$120 to the price

2. Wet paint is typically $400 plus for one color (for anyone that does it often and well)

3. Powder is supposedly more durable/more chip-resistant than wet paint.

4. We have an excellent local powder coat specialist that is accustomed to bike frames that will do a single color frameset for $150, two color for $225 including a chemical strip AND sandblast prep.

5. Powder is a bit more environmentally friendly and less risk for the applicator.

Alex in Rochester, NY

[Alex Wirth- Owner, Yellow Haus Bicycles]

In case people aren't familiar with the Travelers Check frame, it is a coupled travel frame....which makes it an easy transition for two-color paint...

[Ian A]

I really like the turquoise and blue options. I also love the early green on the Surly LHT which I think is the colour on the Sheldon Brown link
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/surly-lht.html Using an official Surly colour on a Surly seems fitting.

I really appreciate blues, greens and pastel colours in that spectrum and would have a hard time deciding. When I had a frame powdercoated, the man asked me what colour I wanted and I just said "pick the blue you think suits the frame". He had already shown me a metallic purple which I found hideous, so he had an idea of my tastes. He chose what I can best describe as a bright pastel blue and saved me the hand-wringing and second guessing.

If you really like all the colours you posted, just take the frame fork to the coater and say "this is my short list, choose the one you think is best". Find out what you got when you pick it up. It's more exciting than Christmas that way.

IanA Alberta Canada

[George Schick]

Well, not to take your post in a different direction, but the reason I asked is because I'm slowly growing somewhat skeptical of powder coating jobs - in certain cases.  I myself own a Surly 1x1, which is a PC'd steel frame, that I've had since '04 and I see no problems or issues with it.  Having said that though, I've had a high-end aluminum mail box that was PC'd and had to be replaced several years ago.  Complaints to the manf. yielded a reply suggesting waxing it once a year.  Mailboxes up and down the street by the same manf. have similarly deteriorated and had to be replaced or re-painted.  I also own a set of aluminum patio furniture that began to chip and peel several years ago and worsens as time goes along.  Just the other day, I had been resting my somewhat sweaty forearm on one of the chairs and when I lifted it, a chunk of the paint came loose, sticking to the arm.  The difference between the way PC jobs hold up - and it's a big one! - versus wet paint has to do with the fact that the metal surface has not been primed with PC.  In the case of the mailbox, for example, I took off the address plates and completely stripped them down to bare metal, sprayed them with a rattle can of etching primer, then applied some final coats of rattle can spray enamel.  They've held up just fine while the rest of the box deteriorated. I realize that wet spray jobs are much more costly, but they generally last a lot longer.   Just sayin'

[Brendan Willard]

#2

I've been wanting to powdercoat my Travelers Check ever since TSA chipped it up, but the local shops don't want to work around the couplers :(

I masked off the areas and sprayed it myself in the backyard with somewhat poor results- Good thing the full frame bag covers the worst of it...

-Brendan Willard

Owner/Winemaker

Phantômé Cellars

phantomecellars.com

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[Robert Tilley]

I'd go with #2 as well.

Robert Tilley

San Diego, CA

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[Joe Bernard]

#1. I'm big on the bright!

[lambbo]

sorry but #5, the lilac with the grey

[Paul Richardson]

#3!

[Eric Floden]

Pearl night blue

[Mark Roland]

Pastel Turquoise? I don't think so. Wish it had some actual turquoise in there, but I will still vote for #1. The world needs more yellow (and turquoise) bicycles. Snappy&fun!

[Philip Williamson]

No bad choices there.

I’d go with 1.
That was my choice before I read the rules. “Yellow! Oh that blue is great, too. Both together... oh hey, that’s an option.”

Philip
Santa Rosa, CA

[Alex Wirth- Owner, Yellow Haus Bicycles]

Thanks

 everyone

! Going to sleep on it and visit our powder guy tomorrow to pick the final colors.  I’ll keep everyone in suspense until it’s done 😊

Friend of mine did some mock-ups 

[Garth]

My totally biased opining of the 4 choices is number 4, all lilac. Second choice would be an "other", all yellow. The split colors look like you took cut 2 frames and morphed them together, just odd. 

[R Olson]

#1 Definately

[Addison Quarles]

The turquoise/yellow reminds me of the Pantani Bianchi.
What a tough selection!

[Tim Wilson]

I'm in agreement with that. I'd say any of the colors as a solid would be better than any of the splits. I have a coupled All Rounder and like how the couplers' design evokes a continuity of the frame tubing 'underneath', almost like a piece of jewelry wrapped there. I think splitting the paint wrecks that illusion.

On Aug 11, 2020, at 4:53 AM, Garth <gart...@gmail.com> wrote:

My totally biased opining of the 4 choices is number 4, all lilac. Second choice would be an "other", all yellow. The split colors look like you took cut 2 frames and morphed them together, just odd. 

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