"Brown" bikes. Love 'em? Hate 'em? Got pics?

[Dino Suegiù]

Brown is such a difficult color.
Even the brown team (beautiful and elegant kit colors, imo) doesn't ride brown bicycles.

[XXtwindad]

Originally Posted by donevwil

Biketrike's Bruce Gordon was my first thought, love it. Which one did you buy ?



Here's my wife's Comare commuter. Not a true brown, more of a plumb'ish brown.

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The top bike would be my style. A little darker with cream panels. I think the problem with brown is that it doesn't scream "fast."

[henrypretz]

Soma Juice

[pinkshogun]

I had a brown univega nuevo sport and a miyata 610 and both were smooth as the chocolate sauce they both resembled

[Matthew]

There's a reason it's not very popular. Though I loved the Calfee root beer color option.

[Pelican]

Originally Posted by XXtwindad

Thinking of redoing a lugged steel frame with RAL 8014 (sepia brown) with white/cream on the lugs and similar paneling.

Sounds like my townie/coffee bike:

Shinola Bixby

[charliedid]

Love em. I had a metallic brown Ritchey P-20 Team that was killer.

I miss that bike

[nobuseri]

For some reason, I think the brown colored OPEN U.P. looks great.

[colker]

This does not look bad.

[Aaron O]

Picchio...

[Steve in SLO]

I’m thinking brown on CX and MTBs but not so much on road bikes, although that Wilier cromovelato is stunning. That being said, I do have a root beer brown Paramount P–13 that looks pretty cool. I think I like it because it reminds me of the 70s in an avocado green/root beer brown/harvest gold sort of way.

[Dino Suegiù]

The most beautiful brown (with cream) bicycle I ever saw was this Pegoretti Luigino, but it really is more an ox-blood color. Very beautiful in person.





He did do a straight brown ("Conn"/Rust-Yellow); not my cup of tea.


image: Rich Gearing

[yarbsr02]

Originally Posted by pdmtong

That Vanilla is beautiful. Certainly a well done brown. Good that I don't have a local velodrome, or I might be tempted to own something like that.

[Tickdoc]

it is an abomination....both the color and the bike. But, it has a dynamo light and I don't have to take care of it all that much.

[rccardr]

Davidson custom, 1983. Very light tan pearl: