krazygl00
01-18-2013, 04:37 PM
Hi all,
You may recall this bike from the "Identify This Serotta (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=79669)" thread from a few weeks ago:
http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt301/spectrumforum/liquid%20painted/1CD517A1-60D8-43E6-BB24-33BCD52F028D-25269-00002736A0EAF597.jpg
Well, now that the holiday madness is over and I settle back into the grind (and as my bike budget begins to recover from Christmas spending), it is time to actually start building this thing. So I need input of a strictly stylistic nature, regarding component colors.
If you aren't familiar with that previous thread, the theme of the bike is Doppler Shift, or the property that the light coming from a star moving away from you very fast "shifts" toward the red spectrum, and that the light coming from that same star, if moving toward you shifts toward the blue spectrum. Therefore, every leading surface of the bike should be blue and every trailing surface should be red. It's important to remember that it is a theme and that it obviously won't be a perfect optical illusion.
Therefore I'd like to extend the theme into the componentry if possible and where still aesthetically pleasing. There may be a point at which it becomes ludicrous and starts to distract. So the very first thing I need is a new headset since this is at the same time a conversion from a threaded fork to unthreaded. I am set on going with Chris King, and wanted opinions on the following two color schemes. The first one follows the theme, since technically the top bearing cup is "behind" the lower, and therefore is "trailing", so the stem cap, bearing cap and top cup will be red, with the bottom cup blue:
http://www.cornbread.com/~pedrick/images/CK_HS_RRRB.JPG
The second still follows the theme, but considers the top and bottom cups "neutral" and therefore silver, but still considers the bearing cap "trailing":
http://www.cornbread.com/~pedrick/images/CK_HS_RRSS.JPG
What I like about option 1 is that it takes the theme further and what I like about option 2 is that it is more understated and lets the frame shine. I also feel like if I go with option 2 I'll always kind of regret not getting cool colored Chris King bits. For what it's worth, all other "neutral" components (stem, seatpost, etc.) will be silver while other components that can be thought to be leading or trailing (blue stem clamp, blue front and red rear brakes, etc.) will be colored accordingly.
What do you think?
You may recall this bike from the "Identify This Serotta (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=79669)" thread from a few weeks ago:
http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt301/spectrumforum/liquid%20painted/1CD517A1-60D8-43E6-BB24-33BCD52F028D-25269-00002736A0EAF597.jpg
Well, now that the holiday madness is over and I settle back into the grind (and as my bike budget begins to recover from Christmas spending), it is time to actually start building this thing. So I need input of a strictly stylistic nature, regarding component colors.
If you aren't familiar with that previous thread, the theme of the bike is Doppler Shift, or the property that the light coming from a star moving away from you very fast "shifts" toward the red spectrum, and that the light coming from that same star, if moving toward you shifts toward the blue spectrum. Therefore, every leading surface of the bike should be blue and every trailing surface should be red. It's important to remember that it is a theme and that it obviously won't be a perfect optical illusion.
Therefore I'd like to extend the theme into the componentry if possible and where still aesthetically pleasing. There may be a point at which it becomes ludicrous and starts to distract. So the very first thing I need is a new headset since this is at the same time a conversion from a threaded fork to unthreaded. I am set on going with Chris King, and wanted opinions on the following two color schemes. The first one follows the theme, since technically the top bearing cup is "behind" the lower, and therefore is "trailing", so the stem cap, bearing cap and top cup will be red, with the bottom cup blue:
http://www.cornbread.com/~pedrick/images/CK_HS_RRRB.JPG
The second still follows the theme, but considers the top and bottom cups "neutral" and therefore silver, but still considers the bearing cap "trailing":
http://www.cornbread.com/~pedrick/images/CK_HS_RRSS.JPG
What I like about option 1 is that it takes the theme further and what I like about option 2 is that it is more understated and lets the frame shine. I also feel like if I go with option 2 I'll always kind of regret not getting cool colored Chris King bits. For what it's worth, all other "neutral" components (stem, seatpost, etc.) will be silver while other components that can be thought to be leading or trailing (blue stem clamp, blue front and red rear brakes, etc.) will be colored accordingly.
What do you think?