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Are wheel rims in any colour other than black or silver always anti?
In some limited circumstances you might get away with gold anodised (e.g. Mavic OR10). Dark grey hard anodising is obviously fine. I'm not entirely opposed to white paint on MTB rims.
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Agreed MTB gets more of a pass with colours all over the place, same as BMX. The thought of white rims on a road bike though, hmm....and I say that as someone with a bike with white hubs :)
And when you said gold rims I thought that would be considered a one way ticket to anti, but I looked up those Mavic's you mentioned and I can see those working with some builds. Agree dark grey can get a pass too.
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Are chainrings in any other colour than black or silver always anti?
Are wheel rims in any colour other than black or silver always anti?
Are tyres in any other colour than black or gum wall always anti?
Are coloured rims and matching colour tyres doubling down on anti and beyond unacceptable?
Would you be damned to hell for all eternity for attempting all the above on one bike?
Asking for a friend obviously.
I've always thought "don't do it!" with my bikes, and off the top my head can't think if any builds that have managed it, it just seems to attract sharp intakes of breath and vom on shoes.
Anyone got any examples/pics where it doesn't look shit?