Paint Color matters! Your favorite?

[Guy LeVan]

Rivendell should revisit this wonderful paint color for some of their models.  This is the fork from a 2000 Heron Road bike that I’m building.  The blue/green metallic is fantastic in the sun.  

[Patrick Moore]

My favorite Riv color was the Sage Green that they offered 20 years ago when I ordered road custom #3, but I think this same color, or much like it, has featured on stock models since then. The 2003 had lovely Joe Bell Sage Green with cream accents.

The immediately earlier (1999) road custom was painted in metallic navy with cream accents; also lovely;

BUT!

When I had the '99 modified locally in 2018, I had the builder take it to our -- then! -- local bike powdercoat specialist and have it colored Ford Blue. This coater had the knack of even, smooth, "liquid" coatings that beat most paintjobs, IMO, and the Ford Blue on that 1999 is now my favorite color.

Said coater some years ago had coated an old Rene Herse; he got close to the (admittedly faded; bike was from 1958, so I was told) light blue, but above all the coating had that "liquid" look that, again, looked better than most paint jobs.

Alas, when Chauncey built my 2020 Riv Road clone for IGH/fixed drivetrains, said coater was no longer available, and the coater he did use was far less expert: there's very, very slight orange peel on this coating.

My photographic skills are just mm higher than "nil," so extrapolate. 1937 Sturmey Archer TC hub.

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 1:46 PM Guy LeVan <leva...@gmail.com> wrote:

Rivendell should revisit this wonderful paint color for some of their models.  This is the fork from a 2000 Heron Road bike that I’m building.  The blue/green metallic is fantastic in the sun.  

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[Jay Lonner]

Rambouillet orange. 

Jay Lonner

Bellingham, WA

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[George Schick]

What Jay said.  I've been forever happy with the orange Ram that I bought some 20 years ago.

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

This. For me, it will always be this.

Leah

[Brian Turner]

My favorite is whatever that last iteration of the butterscotchy orange color was on the Sam release from a few years ago (2021?). 2nd would be good ‘ol Riv Blue (and I’m not even a big fan of the color blue, but I love it on Rivendells).

On Jun 1, 2024, at 7:17 PM, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! <jonasa...@gmail.com> wrote:

This. For me, it will always be this.

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[Nick Payne]

Everyone should have at least one orange bicycle. When I ordered a Riv custom about 25 years ago, I asked for orange with cream highlights:

My orange Appaloosa - purchased about four years ago - is a very similar colour:

And when I ordered my wife a frame a few years ago directly from the Carbonda factory in China, I was able to specify the exact Pantone colour it was to be finished in:

Nick Payne

[Patrick Moore]

That is a pretty orange on the Appaloosa if it is as deep as it looks in the photo. I don't care for light orange but I'd buy a bike that color.

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[Roberta]

Levanguy— 

That is a beautiful color!!! When I was dreaming of getting a Riv custom, that was the color I had in mind. 

I hope you enjoy your new ride and post pictures here.

Roberta

[Ted Durant]

On Friday, May 31, 2024 at 2:46:47 PM UTC-5 leva...@gmail.com wrote:

Rivendell should revisit this wonderful paint color for some of their models.  This is the fork from a 2000 Heron Road bike that I’m building.  The blue/green metallic is fantastic in the sun.  

Well, I'm biased, but that is certainly one of my favorite colors ever. I was stoked when Roger gave me the sample tube with that color on it. Even in the fluorescent lights of their shop I could tell it was a winner.

That said, the color of the Heron prototype, "soap green", which is suspiciously like celeste, has a warm place in my heart. That frame is in the hands of Now You're Finished for a full spa treatment, and Adam will be matching the color.

 

But I think my all-time favorite so far is Waterford's Copper Metallic, or as I like to call it, Root Beer with a Creamy Head:

[vernon brooks]

Custom Pewter Rambouillet painted by Rick at D&D. I had imagined a slightly lighter almost silver in my head but the color turned out amazing. A beautiful metallic shimmer appears when the bike is in direct sunlight!

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[RichS]

So many nice colors here. The sage green on my 2014 Sam will always be one of my favorites. Shown here in commuter mode.

Versatile and goes well with accent colors.

Best,

Rich in ATL

[David Ross]

Orange. I've never owned an orange bike but I've always wanted one. I'd have to say that the Gus in orange is one of my favorite bikes of all time. 

[Garth]

Orange also ! Soda pop orange or any degree of a softened tone thereof, ala say a pastel soda pop orange. 

[John Dewey]

My bikes are orange, blue, silver, gray, neon orchid, racing green, southwestern red. But when I see y’alls bikes I always wonder why I missed that beautiful color. 

That can lead to trouble 🤪

Jock

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