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Video: Six of the best custom painted bikes - Boring black is banished
Bikes, they come in many shapes and forms. And lots of colours too. You can have your road bike in just about any colour you fancy, and if you're feeling special, you can even get a custom painted bike. We've scoured the pages of road.cc to gather up six of the best-looking custom painted bikes we've seen in 2017.
You might not agree with our list, and that's fine. That's what the comments section is for. Let us know if you've seen a better-looking custom painted bike that should have been on this list.
Our pick of six of the best custom paint jobs
| Market price | Read more | |
|---|---|---|
| Merida Reacto |
Merida
Reacto Disc 7000-E — £3,400 |
Eurobike
favourite bikes |
| Open UPPER Custom |
Unpainted
UPPER frame & fork — £3,900 |
Eurobike
road bike porn |
| Colnago C60 Mapei |
Colnago C64 frame & fork — £4,100 | Eurobike favourite bikes |
| Parlee Z-Zero |
Z-Zero
frame, fork & headset — £7,779 |
Eurobike road bike porn |
| Bianchi Specialissima Pantani |
Bianchi
Specialissima CV Pantani Frameset — £3,800 |
Bianchi's
Pantani tribute |
| Argon 18 Gallium Pro | Argon
18 Gallium Pro 9150 — £6,800 |
Fabio
Aru’s Gallium Pro |
Note:Except for the Bianchi, you can't actually buy these bikes or frames in the particular livery we've featured, so these are the closest equivalent that you can then take to your friendly neighbourhood bike painter.
David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur - Just Ride Bikes.
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Someone at road.cc is being sacked right now, for allowing an Argon 18 bike to be seen on the site.
They will show the most obscure bikes in the world, but heaven forbid an Argon make it onto these pages.
Oh yeah. They never show them.
http://road.cc/content/review/77437-argon-18-gallium-pro
http://road.cc/content/review/37229-argon-18-krypton
http://road.cc/content/tech-news/225414-tour-tech-2017-fabio-arus-stage-...
http://road.cc/content/tech-news/228912-video-argon-18s-notio-konect-eur...
And lots more...
Gosh, some of those original six are eye-watering! Aru's Argon is ok, but the Ramato 'beaten copper' finish is much nicer.
One of my Trek Project Ones ... I don't put it in the rotation much as it is too pretty.
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Wilier’s Cento10 Air Ramato finish is jaw dropping, should be though for an extra grand!
I like this one....but then I m not very impartial ..... as its mine!
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