Are looks important?

[Newgirl1426]

I'm bored. Not wanting to go do dishes so thought I would ask a fun question I have been thinking about. How important are the looks of a bike to you? I really like the Liv/Giant paint job compared to say others like Specialized, Cannondale, and others that is nothing but like one solid color. I know these are all great bikes but the paint jobs did nothing to excite me. I admit, the looks of the Avail sold me.

 

[User19783]

It's all about the ride for me,

Function over looks.

Saying that, I do like Mango bikes, and they colours.

 

[Elswick Cotterpin]

A bit of both for me. Spokesmans Carltons are awesome, but I like my matt black Specialized stealth bike, too.

 

[outlash]

A bit of both for me. Spokesmans Carltons are awesome, but I like my matt black Specialized stealth bike, too.

Same here. I like my bikes to looks like bikes, the Aero/TT side of things does nothing for me at all.

 

[oldfatfool]

Colnago Master, looks, steel, out of this world paint jobbie, and its Italian

 

[Tin Pot]

It's all about looks.

http://www.cinelli.it/site/templates/tmpl_cinelli/home.php?lang=en

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I ride a weird monster Brompton so I obviously just don't care about looks.

 

[Markymark]

I can make any bike look good.

 

[Dave 123]

It doesn't matter the color of the car
But what goes on beneath the bonnet
Is there a flag that flies above your heart
And is my name writ there upon it
Wedding cake and toothache
Equals love and pain



View: https://youtu.be/ACnrOBZaEqU

 

[summerdays]

Colour is important and it puts me off buying a bike when I see one I'm interested in, often the bottom model with a colour I do like, but when I look for the disk brake model, they have produced it in some dull grey colour or black (current bike is grey.... I want colour next time!)

 

[die_aufopferung]

Generally spec, fit, and price are more important to me, but given there are always a wide number of similarly spec'd bikes at roughly the same price which one I go for always does come down to looks. Especially colour schemes - I can't stand bright, gaudy paint jobs and would rather have a solid single colour.

 

[matiz]

You can have a good looking bike or a matt black bike,but you can't have both,unless you have two bikes.

 

[Levo-Lon]

If it looks good it will be faster , its as simple as that..

 

[Serynia]

Everyone wants to look good cycling I don't think it has ever swayed my bike choice, however female bikes tend to be girly colours my sister was recently mortified when her husband bought her a bike so she could go out with himself and their children, he bought a lovely girly lilac Raleigh with flowers on and a basket ..... needless to say I remind her at every opportunity and remind her I my beloved Boardman is my favourite blue colour

 

[tobykenobi]

Generally, so long as it isn't too horrible, I don't mind. My Cannondale is black (matt-ish) and my Dawes is silver. Both look fine to me. I'd avoid yellow (too much TdF wannabe) or white (would need cleaning constantly).

I confess to only wearing certain shorts with certain tops to avoid clashing.