Yellow, white or black housing?

[Lewis Moon]

So...this arrived yesterday:

and day-um it's gorgeous.
So: yellow, white or black cable housing?

[sandyrs]

black!!!!!

[GregL]

Depends. What color saddle, bar tape, and brake hoods? If in doubt, basic black is always appropriate.

Greg

[Lewis Moon]

Originally Posted by GregL

Depends. What color saddle, bar tape, and brake hoods? If in doubt, basic black is always appropriate.

Greg

Tape yellow, hoods and saddle white, most all of the parts black.

[zennmotion]

Why on earth would you want to draw attention to the housing of all things on that bike? It's ugly (housing is ugly), whatever color makes it disappear the best, so, probably black. Maybe white if the bar tape is white.

[Bradford]

White would look great.

[Clancy]

Black

[R3awak3n]

black. always black

[Tickdoc]

cool frame. white if built retro, black if built neo.

[Roger M]

Gray

[bicycletricycle]

red, will look nice along the top tube

[JWDR]

Originally Posted by bicycletricycle

red, will look nice along the top tube

I was thinking black because although it may not look great, it never looks wrong. I then thought white since you said tape and saddle in white.

But then red was mentioned. I pictured it and think it is the right answer. As long as you can find a housing colored close to the top and down tube.

[cachagua]

Why on earth would you want to draw attention to the housing?

Among architects I've known, it's kind of a proverb that if you have no choice but to run a plumbing vent through the living room (or the like), "Paint it red and make a feature of it".

Cable housing is a little like that. You have to have some, it's gonna be visible, might as well do what you can with it.

Myself, I'd strongly consider yellow for that frame. Depending, as noted, on what tape & seat, and whether you're aiming for a more period-correct look, or, uh... otherwise...

[Hindmost]

Housing should be seen and not heard.

I wouldn't want to detract from the details of that frame.

[zmudshark]

If you are stuck on yellow tape, then yellow cable. Not sure about the white saddle and hoods. Black hoods and yellow saddle, but I have little to no aesthetic taste.