Suggestions for new colours on rallye bike

[STUBBS]

cover it in dirt

 

[Flipfly]

Tim, you could always go retro with a 70's british Leyland poo brown or tepid beige. It wouldn't show the dirt so much

There was a mustard colour too if your planning anymore sand adventures

 

[Timolgra]

The bike has a very famous (if not widely known ) history.

If you want to mess up its provenance, change its colour. Otherwise leave it absolutely as it was when it competed.

Look at this recent photograph of a 1966 Lotus Cortina:



Absolutely as it competed when it was new.

Greg

Hi,
Don(t know if this is going to help or connfuse, but the main issue in fact, I reckon, is one of concept/symbolism whicjh will condition the choice and appropriateness of the colour scheme adopted. What do you want/want people to think/feel when you/they see the bike. A competition bike? A RTW bike? etc etc. That will then guide you as to how you should repaint and "decorate". In that sense the comment to the bike's history is in my view the most pertinent one. Of course, the aesthetics need to please you too. Whatever you choose, will be nice to see the final result once set on.

Robertspencer, you're absolutely correct
I don't enjoy the symbolism of the bike, it gives the impression that either I competed in the rallye or that I'm a 'wannabe' which I'm not.

It also asks the question, is this my bike or am I it's guardian?

As respectful of it's provenance as I am, it's definately 'my bike' and has led a different but interesting life over the past couple of years. So perhaps to answer that part of the dilema, feck it, it's my bike and I'll paint it what ever colour I like to suit me.

We all get wrinkly and grey but our provenance remains the same.

 

[Shep]

So perhaps to answer that part of the dilema, feck it, it's my bike and I'll paint it what ever colour I like to suit me.

We all get wrinkly and grey but our provenance remains the same.

Yer the man, all this provenance bollix is for museum pieces, not for used everyday type vehicles, that bike's not dead and past it, it's still evolving

Shep

 

[Rushy]

Just paint it.....BLACK ........all of it !!!