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Strictly speaking you're not really looking for a 'colour match' per se. That's more for doing a spot repair and if I've understood correctly, you're not planning to repair it but rather simply to re-do it again in a colour as close as possible to the original?
For what its worth, any pink left on the bike won't be the original colour... it will have shrunk and faded so if you were to find the name of the actual matter-of-fact correct colour and spray that, it very likely wouldn't look the same as the bits left on the frame.
There are loads of metallic pinks available. There is effectively a rattle can available for every colour that has ever been used on a car. With few exceptions, bikes are painted with car products so you simply need to find which car product it is. Custom colours are very uncommon on production frames but that can sometimes mean you'll never be able to buy the colour but have to have it made. This is done using a spectrophotometer in fancy situations but in a busy indie workshop... its done by eyeballing it and using lots of skill... really.
There sadly isn't a cheaply available resource containing every automotive colour swatch but good paint shops do have comprehensive references (for the purpose colour matching proper repairs). You'd be welcome to come to our workshop in Dulwich and spend some time looking through our swatches until you find the nearest colour - or EVEN the actual one. Once you find it, you'll have the reference number and if its the case it's not a commonly available off-the-peg colour, you can use this reference number to have it custom mixed into a rattle can buy a good paint shop.
DM me if you want to come and hunt for the colour South of the river.
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How easy is it to colour match?
I have an old Gazelle that was in sparkly pink, its a hard colour to find. It has metallic flake.
It was blasted and repainted appliance white, badly, by me years ago. Something I deeply regret.
There is some old paint left in some parts, inside tubes, fork. Things like that, small areas essentially.
Is this something b&q can do or should I start saving?
edit: can't believe I've missed this over the years but pretty sure its the same pink on the 89 triatholon frame found here https://www.bikeituk.club/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Gazelle_1989.pdf
The bike was apparently from 1989 too...