Not tried this before but here goes...

[dbmtb]

But Green was a stock colour for hetchins, one of the classic british builder.

This site has some truely amazing british colour schemes, and it is a british bike, not some namby-pamby italian princess of a bike

The "green" thing is something that started mid-60s I think. Hetchins go back longer than that.

I can just remember some of the old vet-cat racers who used to be dead weird/ superstitious about stuff like that.

If anyone knows the story about why green came to be considered unlucky, I'd love to hear it.

 

[doctor-bond]

Chocolate with cream panels/details like the pulman carriages. I'll vote for chocolate.

I was going to go with this scheme on a Hobbs frame, but having cleaned it up a bit, it seems a shame to erase whats left of the original lining and patina.

Think I'm going to go for a clear preserving laquer and let the age shine through.

 

[Agency_Scum]

Cost ain't a problem....I'm a good sprayer and can lay a wet coat over a powder one that'll cost £30. How about ( as friends have recently suggested also ) cream with plum coloured lugs?

 

[cce]

yes. do that. and bring it to the august bikejumble so i can just sit looking at it.

 

[Agency_Scum]

You're on!

 

[mdvineng]

Frank Herety didn't even flinch when he made my frame in green with gold lug lining but then it wasn't a racer just audax/fast tourer.

 

[Jamiedyer]

Green and Gold

You cant beat green and gold

Jamie

 

[Agency_Scum]

Talk about thread resurrection! Anyway, that was 4 years ago and I chose to go all 1950s GWR coachwork on it...