59cm Graham Weigh 853 road bike build

"Fuck Yeah!" in Futura caps says i

Futura is a nice font.

Spotter & JB have been talking some reason into me, and spreading their anti-yellow propaganda (not like that). I am hopefully going to get the frame painted this week, and then the decals is something that will be added at a later date. Or not, depending on how it looks without them.

yellow with black parts looks boss. don't listen to jackjake

It will be dark (cobalt) blue, with yellow decals and black parts, unless that looks really wank.

And I'm confident it won't.

if you're going for blue, go for light orange decals....

rule of opposites etc..

Have you seen the colour orange!?

Nah bru.

if you are going for a dark shade on the frame, choosing black parts is not the best decision in my opinion.

Yeah, I did consider that. I'm not really the best at colour-coordination, or Photoshop (see above), so I have no real way of knowing.

Also I can't get the wheels I wanted through work, as the Planet X price is so much lower than trade that it would lose the company money to price match it, so I'll have to order them direct.

What wheels?

RS30s in black

hmmmm that is a good price.

They're suprisingly heavy for such a low spoke count.

Look pretty similar to my Fulcrum 5's - and they're doing me proud.

I quite like the Fulcrums, but the RS30s are super cheap and have the Tester Seal of Approval©

Just on the decals, I actually think tommmmmmmmm running from the edge of the big ring all the way up the down tube in a Chubby type of font would look good. Especially satin black on shiny black. I'd the. Reverse it on the other side so the "m" is at the head tube end

what abut http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/10000/nahled/2085-1263146807z9AZ.jpg

? would make the black stick out quite nicely

^^I'd feel a bit of a fanny having my own name, or a derivative of it, written on my own bike. I'd rather have Graham's.

^Not keen on that colour at all.

Considered charcoal grey, but that seems a bit passé nowadays.

Also, this is the sort of thing I had in mind, and it looks awesome:

Imagine that with bright yellow decals as well. Pow.

If only he did custom jobs :(

I'm now thinking about RAL 7016, Anthracite Grey.

Or RAL 7015, Slate grey. I think this shipping container illustrates how well that would go with yellow decals:

And I would like the distinction of owning one of the first bikes designed after a shipping container. I think both of these colours are pretty nice, and maybe a little lighter than the matt black/carbon colour which is becoming a bit ubiquitous.

Thoughts?

Actually that container has the kind of digital square things I was considering as well. Is this fate?

you should write titan containers on it. and that graphic

that container is lovely, 20 TEU?

how about not a RAL, and do it in a metallic colour like "Steel 41"

really is a lovely colour

http://www.pedalroom.com/p/1961-bob-jackson-5010_1.jpg

Grey metallic paint is for cheap Giant Defys (Defies?)

Or old school steel. I have new school steel.

What wheels?

RS30s in black