A splash of color

I was given this Colnago a few months back. It has needed a few upgrades, but another thing it needed was bit of color. I mean, I do not hate black but to own something that is so overwhelmingly dark is depressing. I grew up in the era when bikes were brightly colored, all components were silvers, and even black bar wrap was a rarity. These days most components are black, black is the most common color for bar wrap, and dark colored bikes seem to be all too common. Nothing wrong with some color, bright colors, and this bike needed a serious dose of it.

As I mused on adding some color, the obvious question was which color. Not wanting to offend the goddess of style (The Wife) it had to be a color already present in the bike. Besides the black carbon fiber, the other colors prominent on this frame are pink, yellow, and green. Not a fan of green, so that was off the list, which reduced the choice to pink or yellow. The Wife argued pink. I have nothing against pink; I own a couple of pink shirts and even got married wearing a pink shirt. But, pink was not calling out to me; perhaps it is because The Wife wears pink almost everytime she rides, it is a team color, and having pink on my bike while riding with her might be excessive. So we are down to …. yellow!

I got some yellow cable housing and some yellow bar wrap and went to work last night. Definitely looking a bit cheerier. Now I need to find time to take it out for a spin and see if the jazzier look spurs me to be a bit spunkier on the pedals. It could happen.