HELP ME! Choose a colour for my ride

[stefanm]

Ok here's the deal, I will be completing some mods to my old R15 next week, then I am sending the parts for painting, now after 3 weeks of deliberating a colour and oodles of hours on google, I have narrowed my decision down to four contenders, initially I was going for a tri-stage pearl paint job, I have dropped that idea as it's becoming too expensive (the paint and clear comes to around 7-8k, without labour!)

So my final selection of four are all two stage pearl, one is an alternative of the car pictured (the actual car has a tri-stage paint job, the alternative is two stage with a tinted clear, the car is the Lambo, the alternative is a paint code from Aston Martin). Now you get a chance to vote on what you think will work best on an R15, look carefully as they are all pearl paints so the colour will change to degree depending on the light, hence I am posting two pictures of each car.

So vote away

1) Aston Martin Flame Orange



2) Lamborghini Arancio Argos Alt (2 stage version by Aston Martin, with tinted clear coat)



3) TVR Arancio Calypso



4) Toyota/Subaru Orange pearl

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[stefanm]

C'mon chaps, I'm really kind of stuck here, you can also drop in opinions on the individual colours. I have until next Thursday 22nd to finalise the colour.

[chinmayakar]

I like the Lambo Orange. Don't know how it will look on your R15. All the best for the paint job..

[abhi_underdog]

Number 3 stefanm, it will go well with the sport bike character, the rest or a little too dark and have a metallic feel about them. I am not sure you'd want that on the R15. And I hope you dont make it look KTMish.

This however looks good :

http://www.minibikes.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/orangepocket.jpg

[princesirohi]

Aston martin flame orange, and if you can add some more red to it. only thing is, it should be as glossy as it looks in pic....

[Berlin]

Aston or lambo would be good....

[squid]

I liked the fourth one! Go for it. And do keep us posted with the progress and outcome of your paint...

[akshay sethi]

The first one lamborgini looks the best and has a good variable look depending upon the light.

[stefanm]

I like the Lambo Orange. Don't know how it will look on your R15. All the best for the paint job..

This is my fear that the deeper orange paint of the Aston and the Lambo might not suit the bike, however a few tricks up my sleeve should keep it sweet, should I go for either of these.

Number 3 stefanm, it will go well with the sport bike character, the rest or a little too dark and have a metallic feel about them. I am not sure you'd want that on the R15. And I hope you dont make it look KTMish.

This however looks good :
http://www.minibikes.co.za/wp-conten...angepocket.jpg

Yeah number 3 will look awesome, it's very similar to another Lambo colour (which is a 3 stage paint) have seen a lot of bikes on the net with the Lambo version of this colour, it really works well and was my original first choice.......but I like to be different!

Aston martin flame orange, and if you can add some more red to it. only thing is, it should be as glossy as it looks in pic....

Yes the gloss will be there, we're painting in a spray booth so we can shoot better quality and higher gloss clear coat (the good stuff takes longer to dry, hence the need for a booth)

Aston or lambo would be good....

Thanks for the decisive answer! yeah both are great, I have downloaded HD video's of both of these, both are stunning, only thing the Lambo is a 3 stage colour, so if I choose this I would be using the alternative version by Aston Martin which uses a tinted clear coat for the pearl effect, i'm a little nervous about this, so I guess a coat of untinted clear on top of the tinted coat for protection.

I liked the fourth one! Go for it. And do keep us posted with the progress and outcome of your paint...

This is the one i'm most unsure about, although it would look stunning on the bike, it's not really me, but still worthy of consideration hence it's inclusion.

The first one lamborgini looks the best and has a good variable look depending upon the light.

I guess you mean the second one right?


Ok the poll stops in around 80 minutes, though I have a delay in getting the bike painted as I'm waiting for some parts from Yamaha, so although the poll will be closed I guess, you can still post until at least Tuesday 27th November.

I still haven't made my mind up , though I am leaning towards all of them, oh bugger!