Poll: What color to paint my ti bike's fork?

[doomridesout]

The trend of a really "lairy" fork seems to have peaked, but I still like the look of a raw titanium bike with a painted fork. I'm putting in an order for a Seven Evergreen in the next week or so, and want to paint the fork to add a little visual interest. The bike will be as minimal as possible in every other respect: titanium post and stem, no anodized blingy stuff (well, maybe the headset, but that'd be it). Groupset will be Ultegra 8020.

What color should I paint the fork? Current interesting options are some kind of mustard yellow, a metallic deep red, Porsche Rivera Blue, and grass green. The metallic red would almost certainly demand a gold headset, but everything else would be silver accents on the alloy bits.

[Peter P.]

The fork color has to tie in to other colors on the bike otherwise it'll look like you mixed plaids and stripes. Your mother would never send you to the bus stop looking like that.

So the fork needs to match uh, something like the cable housing, handlebar tape, bottle cages; it's got to coordinate otherwise it's Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack.

So what's the rest of the bike gonna be?

[Bruce K]

How about one of those metal flakes they used to put on Meyers Manx dune buggies?

But seriously, the red would be my choice of those listed but if it is an unpainted frame I would look at some of the old school deep “candy” colors. I love the way they “glow” in the sun

BK

[nalax]

Yellow for me, since I have a yellow Flite somewhere to balance it off.

[vav]

Camo.

[jghall]

While not one of the 4 mentioned above, always thought white looked classy with TI.

[MattTuck]

Too bad the serotta paint tool is no longer available, you could have mocked up a bunch of colors. That thing was very useful.

I agree that you don't want it to be too loud, unless it can tie in with the rest of the bike.

I think the rapha/pink aesthetic is somewhat played out, but I think a nice dark color fork (grey, dark blue, maroon), with a few pink highlights would work.

Depending on the rest of it, I actually really like the combination of a dark maroon fork, with a few stripes of powder blue.

[joosttx]

Originally Posted by vav

Camo.

Thats so done these days

[dustyrider]

Black. What’s old is new again...

[HenryA]

Will the frame have decals?

If so, pick up a color there.

[Ozz]

Fork color needs to tie in with colors on rest of bike....ti seatpost and stem are bare I assume?

What color is saddle? Bar tape? headset? cable housing?

You can't really go wrong with black...maybe a metallic with lots of metal flake? This leaves you open to changing bar tape and saddle colors down the road. However, white would look really good with white saddle and bar tape.

As mentioned earlier, if there are decals...you can pick up a color there. If not, painting the fork a color kind of locks you into a specific color scheme.

Check out my Legend in the Custom Bike Gallery....it has a ti seatpost, silver headset and silver stem (sort of like what you are going for). The fork is black and I added color with bar tape and tires: https://forums.thepaceline.net/showp...86&postcount=7

[tttsmm]

i recently painted my seatpost, stem & fork candy orange on my ti bike, so my vote will be to go really contrasting... YMMV though....

[Seramount]

have a white F1 fork on my Ti Paramount...

goes nicely with the white DT panel, tape, saddle, and pedals.

also gives me lots of opportunities to clean things.

[wc1934]

Originally Posted by HenryA

Will the frame have decals?

If so, pick up a color there.

^

[stackie]

Like this thread

I have ti bike in the works and am mulling over same thoughts. Not to hijack but I will spill my thoughts on what I’ve seen that looks good with Ti.

I like the moots that was posted here with blue plaid fork. I think it’s in the classifieds.

Personally, I think the medium blue ( think Chris king anodizing) looks amazing on ti. But I’m more partial to pink and purple myself, even knowing they don’t have quite the same je me sais quoi as the blue.

Hope this is useful. And I’ll follow for others thought as well.

Jon