Car Colors vs Bike Colors

[CMiller]

Has anyone had a poor experience using a car color for a custom bike and it not looking quite as right? Lots more surface area on a car and I imagine that could effect the lighting?

I have seen some custom bikes that look amazing, would it be a complement to the original to ask a painter to replicate it, or is it stealing ideas? Example, Richard Sachs red on a non-RS bike, Rock Lobster seafoam green, etc.

I'm probably overthinking as usual!

Check out Sycip/Hunter/Inglis/DeSalvo instagrams for their tour of the Toyota museum in Japan for some killer paint.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGHXQvuHIi7/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGI58RDHIiG/

[adamhell]

alfa romeo pine green on my custom lighthouse - my favorite bike

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h184/adamleibow/3B556207-7709-4591-A97C-B35F1118F882_zpsrfdeulqp.jpg
http://www.stelvio.dk/content_images/galleries/ar1300gtjunior70pinoverde/D7K_5857.JPG

[CMiller]

Nice! Who does the paint for Lighthouse?

[adamhell]

Nice! Who does the paint for Lighthouse?

man i don't know. spectrum? i can't remember.

[Gsinill]

My Casati with an Al Wanta respray in Mini Cooper British Racing Green II.
Came out better than expected but I guess picking a car color is always a hit or miss if you've never seen that exact color on a bike before.

http://s12.postimg.org/fof3susx9/L1050012.jpg

[cadence90]

Nothing beats having the actual color chips or, as gsinill already stated, prior real life experience seeing the actual color on a frame.

His bike, in the BRG we all know, looks almost black in the photo above.

Beautiful bikes, adamhell and gsinill.

[pdmtong]

Nogaru Blue IF SSR 953 SEC as I built it
Lighting affects impressions but it was a dead on match
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160617/516e25e597cffbe29032c03328d2ed92.jpg
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160617/325c62aef3bbf152e31e4fcb5993a573.jpg

[993rs]

GM fathom green. Spot on.

[Ronsonic]

OMG, that Casati. It looks almost black, but fires up the little gold touches in a way that black would subdue them. Just beautiful. Nice neo-retro thing going, too.

[cadence90]

OMG, that Casati. It looks almost black, but fires up the little gold touches in a way that black would subdue them. Just beautiful. Nice neo-retro thing going, too.

No kidding. Those Casati tuning fork seatstays are exquisite.

[mhespenheide]

That Casati is gorgeous.

[AllanVarcoe]

I love that Audi S4 blue!

[ispy]

In my humble experience playing with colored printed text, the thin strokes of typefaces make any given color choice *appear* darker than the originating color swatch. For example try looking at a 1"x1" square of Pantone 449 vs 12-pt Helvetica (not bold) text in same color. The square looks olive drab, but the text can look almost black.

Also, the same color/material will look different depending on whether it's horizontal (facing sky) or vertical (facing you) -- aka the madness of picking paint and materials for one's house renovation :crap: Cars have a lot of surface facing sky, but bike tubes are kind of agnostic...

Beautiful bikes and cars in this thread.


Has anyone had a poor experience using a car color for a custom bike and it not looking quite as right? Lots more surface area on a car and I imagine that could effect the lighting?

[CMiller]

I think there is enough proof now that car colors can translate gorgeously! Thanks for the examples.

How about the second question - alright to use Richard Sachs red on a non-RS bike, Rock Lobster seafoam green, etc.?

[rileystylee]

I think there is enough proof now that car colors can translate gorgeously! Thanks for the examples.

How about the second question - alright to use Richard Sachs red on a non-RS bike, Rock Lobster seafoam green, etc.?

Richard Sachs does not own the copyright to red paint so maybe it should just be known as red paint?
Seafoam green has been used recent on a surly model I believe?

[cadence90]

I think there is enough proof now that car colors can translate gorgeously! Thanks for the examples.

How about the second question - alright to use Richard Sachs red on a non-RS bike, Rock Lobster seafoam green, etc.?

Red: Did Sachs ask Corot? No. Did Corot ask Leonardo or Michelangelo? No.
Green: Did Sadoff ask Domenico Veneziano? No. Did Veneziano ask Frà Angelico or Frà Filippo Lippi? Perhaps.

But did they all learn, even steal, and then do their work? Yes. For the better, every time.

So, in any and all cases, choose the color you love, don't worry about any silly "restrictions", and move forward with it.

[CMiller]

Great replies, and yes, I was overthinking a bit haha