Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Bike Friday Blue color options

The above bike is 2-color Ink Black (Gloss) and Sky Blue Sparkle. Sky Blue Sparkle is $100 extra on pocket bikes like the Tourist, Llama, Rocket and is a nice semi-metallic baby blue. With the black it really looks good. This bike has Black cables, but I've seen it with yellow, gray, white and green and all of these work well.
Here's a great example of a two-color Tikit with Sky Blue Sparkle, Premium White and black cables/decals. Love the white painted rack! Too bad you can't get white tires any more! This paint job would be $250 on a Tikit or $200 on a Pocket bike like a Tourist, Llama or Rocket.

In the foreground, Leo Blue Cobalt, on the right with green handlebar is the Midnight Blue, in the background on the Tikit is the Cream Soda Blue.
Here's a closeup of the Cream Soda Blue showing the excellent look of the paint in outdoor conditions. Indoor this color is somewhat muted and dull, but outside it looks FANTASTIC!

The Leo Blue Cobalt is a combination of Sugar Grape Purple with all of its fantastic metallic flakes and a sapphire blue overcoat. This produces an extremely deep, active paint color. This color is $250 extra on pocket bikes like the Tourist, Crusoe, Llama, Rocket.

This is a close-up of a Midnight Blue bike. Midnight is a similar 2-color paint using Black Diamond overpainted with Sapphire Blue. The Black Diamond paint also has an active metallic flake look so the paint has a very nice depth to it. The sapphire overcoat produces a nice even blue color that looks great in all lighting situations. This color is also a $250 additional fee.
The bike in the forground is my son's bike. Sapphire Blue. This color is really fantastic and though my bike (white in the background) costs over 3x more expensive than my son's and my special 2-color paint job cost more as well... I have to say that I'm a bit jealous of his paint job. I love the Sapphire. In some lights it looks nearly purple, in others a bright cyan.  Awesome is all I can say!  Sapphire also costs an additional $250.
Here's a closeup of a Sapphire Blue tandem in the flourescent lights of the shop just finishing up assembly. This was literally the best-looking tandem I've seen. And I've seen a lot of them. Love that color!

Check out this awesome 2-tone one of my customers ordered. The front 1/2 of the bike (fork, steering tube, monotube) is Sapphire Blue, the rear triangle and seat mast is Midnight Blue. It looks really awesome. All it needs now is the natural leather grip tape on the handlebars to really finish it up well!

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