Pink Cannondale (my first road bike)

hi!
As some of you know i bought an used cannondale frameset

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8908/quadro0.jpg

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/1166/quadro1z.jpg

after pink

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/5674/pinkcannondale2.jpg

i bought a Sram Rival... Also bought Sram S60 wheels

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/1575/pink0d.jpg

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5209/pink3h.jpg

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/761/pink4g.jpg

also bought 3T ergonova Team handlebar

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5665/ergonovateam500.jpg

now i just need to finish it ;)
...and than start ridding with 19 extra gears :D eh eh eh!

Hey Noca, looks like we both now have pink Cannondales! :)

Hey Noca, looks like we both now have pink Cannondales! :)

cool! :D "pink is the new black"
i don't know yours

hummm! show me show me show me

Wow... who did the paint work? Looks lush!

Wow... who did the paint work? Looks lush!

in all of my bikes i did the paint (all the hand work, making the color, sanding, etc.) but the final "spray" was made by a friend (professional).

Isn't that red?

Defo pink!

in all of my bikes i did the paint (all the hand work, making the color, sanding, etc.) but the final "spray" was made by a friend (professional).

Looks great!

in all of my bikes i did the paint (all the hand work, making the color, sanding, etc.) but the final "spray" was made by a friend (professional).

They spraying is the part that takes skill!

Nice colour though, I recently resprayed my Planet X track frame myself... was going to do it pink too, But went for deep purple & metallic black instead.
Look forward to seeing this finished!

Oh yes. I only looked at the 'before', not the 'before and after.' Now I understand why you like the paint job! Looks good.

Lovely detail on the black/pink forks with pink dropouts!

god, this is going to awesome. LOVE the paint job (who did it for you btw?)

Looks like a girls bike

You're a girls bike. Ah man, noca you'll love the gears when it's up and running.

Looks like a girls bike

lol!
do you think pink is a female color?
why?

naaaaaah! for me it's the new black ;)

To elaborate, I think it looks like a bike which would be marketed at girls. It's not a case of whether I personally think a particular colour is gender specific (I don't, that would be ridiculous).

Usually, when something is pink, it's aimed at the female market. Like a surreptitious penis creeping out in all it's pinkness to lure the innocent female away to it's uncouth lair.

i understand Emperor ;)

now with more stuff

This is gonna be one nice piece of kit! Just out of interest, are the wheels new or is this a pre-loved kinda project?

lol!
do you think pink is a female color?
why?

Usually, when something is pink, it's aimed at the female market.

To answer the question, yes he does. But he'd like to dress it up in an argument which avoids making him appear sexist and can blame others for it... the marketeers in this case.

I think it's a damn hott colour for that frame and it looks really good, particularly like the complementary splash of paint on the inside of the forks.

One question as the light doesn't show it well... but the colour on the bars, is that matched or did the bars happen to come with a reddish colour on them that happens to look like it matches in a certain light?

Im subscribing to this so I can post it in porn without getting flamed for reposting ;)

One question as the light doesn't show it well... but the colour on the bars, is that matched or did the bars happen to come with a reddish colour on them that happens to look like it matches in a certain light?

Those are 3t bars - so it will be red not pink unfortunately. Might want to reconsider them, Noca? ;)

lol!
do you think pink is a female color?
why?

naaaaaah! for me it's the new black ;)

Bike looks lovely.

Used to be boys in pink, girls in blue...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink#In_gender

particularly like the complementary splash of paint on the inside of the forks.

2nd that .. great paint job.

Would be fabulous if you could sand the red from the bars and replace it with matching pink. I remember (alas can't find the picture again) seeing a Bianchi posted on the web where the bars and stem strips had been colour matched in Celeste to the frame .. it was a fantastic detail.

To answer the question, yes he does. But he'd like to dress it up in an argument which avoids making him appear sexist and can blame others for it... the marketeers in this case.

No. You're wrong there.

I just bought the 3T ergonova TEAM handlebar. I love it
I think i'll try to change that RED for the Pink i made for the bike. It's not too hard.
But right now i'm trying to finish the bike.
Tomorrow i'll set the SRAM Rival groupset on it.