Paint - Who's doing it right, who needs a slap on the wrist?

The Heckler

The Heckler

You bring new meaning to the term SUCK
Paint may not make a bike handle any better but when it comes down to buying something that costs as much as these things do I expect it to look good.

Let's keep this to 'factory big brands.' The sky is obviously the limit for the custom market.

The recipe is simple for my taste. I really like solid colors with minimal graphics. Garrett Chow while at specialized seemed to have steered the boat in the right direction. Tasteful schemes, minimal graphics and interesting alternate colors for the risk takers. My epic comp is matte red. The logo was only done with clear and there are no other graphics to speak of. Super cool paint job.

Trek seems to have finally figured it out. The project one program is really sweet for those customers with deep pockets, but the factory paint is also pretty neat right now. Clean solid colors with minimal graphic details.

Specialized seems to have moved in the opposite direction.

There are a bunch more brands, discuss! GIVE ME YOUR OPINIONS! on paint.
 
Trek did have a few cool paint schemes over the past few years, but I think the award should go to Santa Cruz, because Nomad. This thing is the sexiest bike out there, and it looks even better with the Fox 36 with retro, orange decal. Their gravel Stigmata looks amazing too.

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Part of the reason I chose this frame and this particular year. Raw chromoly frame with a matte green clear coat. You can see all the welds and raw metal finish under the paint. And the kona logos are cleared over so everything is kept discreet as far as branding on the tubes.

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when is the whole murdered out matte thing going to go away? curious what will be next
 
1sh0t1b33r said:
Trek did have a few cool paint schemes over the past few years, but I think the award should go to Santa Cruz, because Nomad. This thing is the sexiest bike out there, and it looks even better with the Fox 36 with retro, orange decal. Their gravel Stigmata looks amazing too.

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my friend just bought and built the Bronson....bright pink! its so sick
 
Edit: I f'd up and didn't read, none below are big brands

The bad: Gunnar bikes by Waterford, I've owned two Roadies, they must do a terrible job prepping the frame, as they chip if you lean them on a wall
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The bad: Land Shark, I used to dig Slawta paint jobs, even owned a red marbled one, maybe I'm older now and don't appreciate his artist background, I just think he lays it on too thick
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Keirin bikes in general have really hot paint, probably because they are not allow to vary anywhere else
My Makino is similar to this Nagasawa, but in Ivory
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Bruce Gordon, another artist turned builder not only welds great bikes, but also turns out some really solid paint jobs, out of all steel bikes I've owned, it probably the best paint in my opinion
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