just a thought on colour

[Serotta_Andrew]

So, are red painted bikes really faster and blue painted bikes stronger????

[Sandy]

Red bikes see red if blue bikes are faster. Blue bikes feel blue if red bikes are stronger. There is constant turmoil between the two colors. A simple solution is to paint your bike red and blue and use white handlebar tape. Then the bike will be red, white, and blue, you will be patriotic, and your bike will get the full backing of your government.


Made in the USA,


Simple Sandy

[coylifut]

...red bikes are faster, especially with white panels and a little mud on em. Blue ones aren't as strong, look what happened to GH yesterday.

[e-RICHIE]

So, are red painted bikes really faster and blue painted bikes stronger????


you spelled colour the, er, british way.
discuss.

[manet]

So, are red painted bikes really faster and blue painted bikes stronger????

the test is set to start this summer

[shaq-d]

...red bikes are faster, especially with white panels and a little mud on em. Blue ones aren't as strong, look what happened to GH yesterday.

halt... GH's bike is a pansy blue for pansies.. just like milram. a real blue (strong) is IBM blue. that's an indefatigable blue.

sd

p.s. e-richie, coloUr is also canadian

[e-RICHIE]

p.s. e-richie, coloUr is also canadian

take off

[slowgoing]

reds are faster in blue states and blues are faster in red states.

[coylifut]

halt... GH's bike is a pansy blue for pansies.. just like milram. a real blue (strong) is IBM blue. that's an indefatigable blue.

sd

p.s. e-richie, coloUr is also canadian

I think you're right. My road bike is Gios blue and it's held up through a couple of crashes.

[davids]

So, are red painted bikes really faster and blue painted bikes stronger????
So I've heard.

But does it also apply when it's just the bar tape?

[yeehawfactor]

i cannot get excited over a bike where blue is the main color. give me white, red, orange, pink, anything. blue accents or lettering is fine. just not all blue!

[Grant McLean]

take off

no, you take off, eh!

Andrew is a hoser, don't u know.

We're everywhere!

-g

[e-RICHIE]

no, you take off, eh!

Andrew is a hoser, don't u know.

We're everywhere!

-g
reds and blues will make you faster.

[CNY rider]

Actually it has something to do with the Doppler effect. I haven't thought about it since college physics, so maybe one of the science guys can fill in the details.

[Bruce K]

Escuse me, but could the moderator please reprimand Serotta Andrew for starting a thread that denigrates certain people's bikes? ;)

My Otrott is neither red nor blue but naked (since I assume decal color doesn't count). I guess that means it is neither fast nor slow. It just is.

How Zen. :cool:

BK

[cookieguy]

Why pick....my ride is candy apple red to cobalt blue fade... The bike is fast and strong. It's early spring. I'm optimistic on the motor improving..

[catulle]

you spelled colour the, er, british way.
discuss.

Ehem, could we settle for couleur ?

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . . Red is faster.

but neither is as fast as YELLOW, of course!

Now ALL of you take off, you hosers, eh?

BBD

[e-RICHIE]

Ehem, could we settle for couleur ?

we're still eton here.
don't make me get the stick.

[manet]

we're still eton here.
don't make me get the stick.

http://waddell.ci.manchester.ct.us/garden_images/id-red-twig-dogwood.jpg

[catulle]

we're still eton here.
don't make me get the stick.

Pas possible?

[Kevan]

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=red&word2=blue

"Stay incognito, Part I. Driving an arrest-me red sports car doesn’t guarantee you’ll get pulled over, but it doesn’t help avoid police, say defense attorneys. Ditto -- albeit to a lesser degree -- any expensive car."

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Insurance/Insureyourcar/P51288.asp?Printer

[e-RICHIE]

Pas possible?

tres possible selon mon avis

[Grant McLean]

tres possible selon mon avis


oh man, do we go binary next?

-g

[e-RICHIE]

oh man, do we go binary next?

-g
no - we skip binary and go straight to brokeback.

[catulle]

Oh, cool. So I have two bikes couleur blue and one black & a mp red.

[Grant McLean]

no - we skip binary and go straight to brokeback.


isn't "straight to brokeback" a mixed mettifour?

-g

[Dr. Doofus]

plaid

[e-RICHIE]

isn't "straight to brokeback" a mixed mettifour?

-g
a metaphor maybe.
more like analogous though.

[Dr. Doofus]

a metaphor maybe.
more like analogous though.

*rimshot*

[Ginger]

rim....WHAT?


Nevermind

[Dr. Doofus]

rim....WHAT?


Nevermind

you know

drums

like a crazy dance jungle beat thing

all frankie goes to holywood and that

[Grant McLean]

rim....WHAT?


Nevermind


don't google that!


-g

[Ginger]

Ah, I thought it might be in a your own private Idaho kind of way...
thanks for the clarification

[e-RICHIE]

Ah, I thought it might be in a your own private Idaho kind of way...
thanks for the clarification


our own private idaho is roundtrip too atmo

[Dr. Doofus]

Ah, I thought it might be in a your own private Idaho kind of way...
thanks for the clarification

gus van zandt is so off limits in this forum

[Dr. Doofus]

our own private idaho is roundtrip too atmo

jirkle cerk?

[Ginger]

gus van zandt is so off limits in this forum

What? No 18 songs about golf?

You're right. That isn't cycling related.

[manet]

isn't "straight to brokeback" a mixed mettifour?

-g

think outside the box:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.richscakes.com/Pictures/Assorted/Pettifores.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.richscakes.com/pages/assorted/Pettifores.htm&h=449&w=600&sz=78&tbnid=RHZQ1t6N_Os0xM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=133&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpettifores%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26l r%3D%26sa%3DG

[andy mac]

Red bikes see red if blue bikes are faster. Blue bikes feel blue if red bikes are stronger. There is constant turmoil between the two colors. A simple solution is to paint your bike red and blue and use white handlebar tape. Then the bike will be red, white, and blue, you will be patriotic, and your bike will get the full backing of your government.


Made in the USA,


Simple Sandy


Sir Sand-a-lot,

It may actually be the we are the world colo(u)r scheme. Which other countries have red, white and blue flags??? off the top of my head...

Anguila
Australia
Belize
Cambodia
Cape Verde
Chile
Cook Islands
Cuba
Costa Rica
Croatia
Czech Republic
Dominican republic
France
Haiti
Iceland
North Korea
South Korea
Laos
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Panama
Paraguay
Puerto Rico
Russian Federation
South Sandwich Islands
Samoa
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Taiwan
Thailand
UK

[catulle]

*rimshot*

Mon Dieu..! So off couleur..!

[Bud]

Actually it has something to do with the Doppler effect. I haven't thought about it since college physics, so maybe one of the science guys can fill in the details.


Boy I've missed out being gone for four days. . .

What's really fast is a blue bike that looks red because it's moving away from you so fast that the light reflecting off of it is shifted towards the red end of the visible spectrum. Very cool (and very fast- like 0.9 times the speed of light, at least).

[shaq-d]

I think you're right. My road bike is Gios blue and it's held up through a couple of crashes.

ditto my serotta cti.. sapphire blue and crashed several times, still holding up strong despite 2 or 3 destroyed wheels. compare with wine-cloured CRL, ultimately crashed and bent :(. and compare with red pinarello which went caput on first crash. i hope i never crash my pretty blue steel torelil...

blue is real.

sd

[davids]

So, are red painted bikes really faster and blue painted bikes stronger????
If Ed's not available, ask this guy:

http://www.landsharkbicycles.com/Gallery/sean_coffey.html

[Sandy]

If Ed's not available, ask this guy:

http://www.landsharkbicycles.com/Gallery/sean_coffey.html

Now that link in itself easily makes this the post of the month, very possibly the post of the last few months.


Sandy

[Kevan]

Now that link in itself easily makes this the post of the month, very possibly the post of the last few months. Sandy

You remember that day at the beach we spent? That bike reminds me of the sunburn you got after falling asleep there all day. Never seen anyone quite so blue or, oh, so red.


Here's lookin' at ya!

[Sandy]

Did you know that if I would mix red paint with blue paint, I would get purple paint?

Did you know that if you mixed red paint with blue paint, you would get a mess? :)


Picasso

[Kevan]

Did you know that if I would mix red paint with blue paint, I would get purple paint?

Did you know that if you mixed red paint with blue paint, you would get a mess? :)


Picasso

With that paint and my name, I'd be rich! Miserable already, but rich!

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/arthistory/images/pollock.jpg

[Sandy]

With that paint and my name, I'd be rich! Miserable already, but rich!

http://www.humanities.uci.edu/arthistory/images/pollock.jpg

I have seen an elephant do better work than that with his trunk.


:banana: Suitcase Sandy :banana: