Party bikes and their more mature, serious counterparts

[KayOs]

While writing my thread about the Centurion Lhasa Kathmandu, I noticed what a difference the paint job makes when it comes to how you perceive the bike.
Whether and which stickers you put on it, where and how you ride it, and even how seriously or time-correctly you build it.
I noticed this again today while tidying up the shed.
Here are the two candidates:


Almost the same bike, completely different spirit...

Do you know what I mean? Do you feel the same way? Do you also have such unequal bike brothers or sisters?

 

[PanoIgano]

While writing my thread about the Centurion Lhasa Kathmandu, I noticed what a difference the paint job makes when it comes to how you perceive the bike.
Whether and which stickers you put on it, where and how you ride it, and even how seriously or time-correctly you build it.
I noticed this again today while tidying up the shed.
Here are the two candidates:

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Almost the same bike, completely different spirit...

Do you know what I mean? Do you feel the same way? Do you also have such unequal bike brothers or sisters?

I totally see what you mean.

For me half the bike's worth is its paintjob. The nicer or more funky it is, the more I want to ride it. The coolest the paint job the faster it must ride...

This issue has been discussed at length in this forum too: The effect of different paint designs on frame appearance

Patina and how much action in the field the bike has seen is also a contributing factor for how much I want to ride it.

 

[KayOs]

I totally see what you mean.

For me half the bike's worth is its paintjob. The nicer or more funky it is, the more I want to ride it. The coolest the paint job the faster it must ride...

This issue has been discussed at length in this forum too: The effect of different paint designs on frame appearance

Patina and how much action in the field the bike has seen is also a contributing factor for how much I want to ride it.

What you wrote there is exactly what I mean. But it seems to go beyond just wanting to ride a certain bike.

A different paint job on the same frame can encourage experimentation. Some paint jobs make you feel like you have to go completely crazy with the build and see what happens, while others encourage you to think carefully about each part and coordinate them with each other.

It's not necessarily the case that only bright colours invite experimentation, although they do contribute greatly to it.