Positives:all carbon
all dura ace
nearly 6lb lighter than the current tank
great price
minimal changes necessary to make it fit
brand new!
Not-so-Positives:
not crazy about the paint job - about a 6 or 7 on the aesthetic scale
650c wheels
it's really brand new - I was liking the idea of building something up, though that would probably end up more expensive in the end.
And I'm not saying I'll buy it but...
Let's say I buy bike Q, and then take it home and paint it a colour I like. This would cover up the parts I like (the lovely wide-weave carbon showing through), and the parts I don't like (white? who thought white was a good tri-bike colour?) . It would make it mine, and aesthetically pleasing.
Is it wrong to buy a brand-new, off-the-shelf pretty and then paint it?
Please comment. I need input.
11 comments:
the men of the ranch say - live in a spirit of acceptance with the Q bike cosmetics - after all women know its not about the cosmetics. great blog pirate.
let us know when u are in town - if u are around on the weekend - there is normally a few fellows heading out of london to ride in the chilterns near oxford - we can arrange a bike.
my god woman, the Riders of the Ranch followed my blog for 9 months, and all i got was 'we want WORDS'...
you got an invitation to RIDE!
repainting feels wrong.
NOpe, not at all. If you can come up with a paint scheme or color that will do that bad boy justice...go for it! You could always have them mask the nude carbon and white, then paint the rest a different color! Sexay!
Hummm, I would have to say it's a bad idea to paint a new bike. It's just wrong for some reason
Kick @ss bike though! MG has the same one.
-bones
If it can be well-painted, do what you'd like for you to love the bike even more. It seems to me, though, that anything re-painted chips faster and then would looke worse.
(this coming from someone riding an 11-year old Trek road bike, so not very worthy advice)
I'm not going to offer my opinion, since my 'roadbike' is an old Mountian bike with some road tires on it. :P
Hell no. I've thought about painting mine. It's okay in the frosty blue thing, but I'd like something a little more ME. Although, I'm not sure what color "Geek Girl" would be. At the Redman, there was this bike that had trispoke wheels. The wheels and frame and everything were a startling shade of blue, and unmistakable! I'd like color like that.
It IS a carbon bike, meaning that it has a clearcoat over the nude carbon. Stripping the coat may damage the weave, and if you paint over, you are not only looking at adding about 8oz of weight to your bike, but also don't know how durable a paintjob over clearcoat would be. Blue you say, and carbon...Well, there is always the P2C, the Trek TTX comes in a variety of colors, maybe Kestrel...I think there may even be a Gerlosteiner edition Specialized out there somewhere. Oh, here is one, check out www.rideblue.com. I LOVED my Blue, and Blues are well, blue.
Anonymous - you must not know my history with the P2C!
I didn't say I wanted blue. I have not divulged the colour of said proposed paintjob. On porpoise.
The Rideblue bikes are purdy!
Ooooohhh, gearLust...
Any chance that a repainted bike will, well, LOOK repainted? Cause if we're talking vanity here (and I have ZERO problem talkin' vanity!), then worse than a bad paint job is a bad *re*paint job.
If not, then Go. For. It.
Now, I'm going to return to my pathetic state of gearLust/gearEnvy.
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