Show off your black bike
 

I didn't like black bikes for a while, but a few round these parts have made me think again. they looks especially fine with color accents, carbon wheels, and gumwalls.

I'd love to see what you guys do to prevent the full blackout look, little bits of color here and there can really set things off.

So lets see your black or mainly black bikes. :banana:

PS, yup, still winter:crap:

Gumwalls, gold chain, colored hubs. Everything else black.:hello:

Colnago Elegant

Wordperfect paint.

[IMG]https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7404/1...f343d51e_b.jpgDSCN5828_2 by gomango1849, on Flickr[/IMG]

A black Sachs with yellow lettering is on my lust list. Black bikes are hot.

My only black bike in the Stable. Alex Singer 650b Campeur
http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/...psqwil5ozt.jpg

2010 responsorium ciavete with uncommon painted to match fork
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Have posted this before, but luv my black Paramount, 75th Anniversary-style (and yes, I have long since fixed the crap bar wrap job from when it was new and I was still tweaking the position). I like the contrast of the white panel, the white lettering in the classic Paramount font, the polished rear stays, the gum wall tubulars, the stainless polished lugs, etc. I had them make a steel fork with 6" chromed tips but haven't used it yet--the bike rides so well with the Enve fork that I haven't wanted to change it!

[IMG]http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6152b93d.jpg[/IMG]

Watching heavily. I'm in the same boat with this thing:

http://i.imgur.com/dfM0cXmh.jpg

I think I gotta put deltas on the kirk

Rode hard and put up wet, as my dad would say, although he wasn't talking of bicycles ;-)

https://i.imgur.com/MDnklbzl.jpg

My nine year old son just finished his first bike overhaul with this mid 80s Centurion.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...16F203A7DF.jpg

My black bike

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...t/IMG_4712.jpg

Only one of these I still have is the OPEN ONE+, but the others are worth a look I reckon?

Previously owned:

http://www.pedalroom.com/p/felt-f1x-di2-15173_1.jpg

New Reynolds hoops for the Look.

I am a happy man.

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thanks everyone, i hope to add my own in a week or so. just dreaming at this point, absorbing the ideas to add to or enhance my own.

I dig white saddles and/or bar tape on all black bikes too.:fight:

It is a matte black(ish) carbon.

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k8...psfv1qj8l0.jpg

this one did it for me lately:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...option%201.jpg

Show off your black bike
 

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I have never mastered posting pics on the Forum (just not tech head, I guess), so a word picture will have to suffice....

Imagine a circa 2008 59 cm Pegoretti Duende in the black ethnic paint (Reggie Baseball has posted pics of a very similar bike), but mine has 2006 Record (with carbon compact cranks), black Ritchey bars and stem and a brown Fizik Aliante, with matching brown Fizik bar tape. 32 hole Open Pros.

A bit heavy (but then so am I!)but beautiful, in my eyes.

Love it!

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Ibis Hakkalugi...

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z...psprn3pmhh.jpg

Parlee Z3...

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z...psafvhptyw.jpg

SPP

Blast from the past. last Serotta I owned...loved this bike!


http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...s/DSC03320.jpg


current cross bike

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...psqk95hgjr.jpg


amazing mtb

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...psngqvkwyh.jpg

'87 Tempo:
http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/y...prightside.jpg
Cannondale Black Lightning with Shimano 5800:
http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/y...psd55d730f.jpg
De Bernardi MAX:
http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/y...psprcklwxh.jpg
Della Santa:
http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/y...pse2fc5996.jpg

this thread delivers!

http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/a...psqtahz28d.jpg
http://i916.photobucket.com/albums/a...pskbztnkil.jpg

Hey, I like the full blackout look! But there was a time when this bike had Joe Young-built DT Swiss wheels with black rims and red labled 240s hubs...and my astute mechanic added a tiny strip of red pinstripe tape over the black electrical tape holding the bartape down, plus red anodized cable crimp-on ends, and those tiny elements just made the whole thing pop.

Sorry, this is the only pic I have of that bike, pre- all the red bits described above.

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/...pscljvyy88.jpg

hmmm...black or white?
 

Ridley Helium

I have three. Two are my main rides: a MAP Randonneur Project, seen here at the lighthouse at Fort Washington MD (650Bx42)

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/531/32...9593cb6c_c.jpg

and one of the original Johnny Coast-built Velo Orange Randonneurs

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/667/22...36620857_c.jpg

(700Cx32) seen on the Oxford-Bellevue ferry on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

There's also a 2nd generation Kogswell P/R set up as an errand bike,

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2436/3...356b6698_z.jpg

but that doesn't get nearly the miles of the other two.

2014 supersix hm (with part of Diablo visible in background)
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3904/3...f285fc27_c.jpgIMG_20160811_191030089 by bragle2011, on Flickr

Wow! She's a BEAUT!

http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps6mzftdzi.jpg

Training mode:
http://i824.photobucket.com/albums/z...pszvagfkvd.jpg

Here's my Battaglin MAX with 7800 I fully restored and repainted:
http://i.imgur.com/ThQeHHA.jpg?1

Recently finished this one. Lots of stuff from the forum helped make it happen.



http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...psp8emhzv4.jpg

Oof that full module Time build is perfect.

Here's my unassuming "Nash-bike" in all her glory...no bling and not the prettiest but plenty of bike for me :o

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3803/3...55eb7491_b.jpg

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