Silver/grey frame paintcode? and bike colour scheme comments....

Thing about orange is that though its common to Lav owners its very uncommon in the day to day riding the odd KTM  but hey its pretty unique unless at a Lav rally.my other favourites are the pea green which if I had a 180 would be my first choice and the red.Anyone got a pic of Stevios "Massimo "RGA that was daring and works in purple and white.?

Shaun
 
Know what you mean Andy, looking to re-spray my 1200, it's silver and does nothing for me. Orange looks good on Laverdas but I already have two orange bikes!

I am thinking something red and white like this one might make a look 'ok'.
 

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lemonjelly said:
Anyone got a pic of Stevios "Massimo "RGA that was daring and works in purple and white.?

Shaun
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Andrew,

Colours are really subjective...what one person likes, another hates. Also, some colour schems suit certain bikes: The "standard" Laverda orange & silver actually suits the bike well.  Silver looks crap on a Mirage (esp. the 1200TS), but looks great on a 3c - see below (and it's a current Jaguar colour, so easy to replicate  :D).

I think the white, green & red is 'orrible - how about a twist on Laverda orange and make it a pearl orange (I am sure there was one around somewhere).

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Pete
 
A photograph of a silver jota never seems to do the bike justice. I was looking at one in the flesh the other day and it looked superb.

Scrumpy
 
thinking about colours
most  everyone seems to expect one to be orange
great if you want to resale
might make it hard to find at a laverda rally  ;)

i did do one in orange with orange pearl, came out very nice

for a '76 the jota gold with black frame looks good
did one in black with gold pearl to set off a gold metallic frame
tom eatman has a 3C in bronze that is stunning
custom mixed a blue from left over paints  8)
fixin to (that's a texas verb) respray my black series 2 with lancia blu
(it has anthracite metallic as a frame colour)
silver looks good and i expect a metallic grey would, too.
it works on jezebel

modern aston martin cars have some elegant shades
rosso rubino looks good

sheldon's 3CL is a deep red with a medium grey metallic frame

there's a wonderful palette of elegant colours befitting the triple besides orange
or red  :D
 

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Scott,

I think that's the colour I was thinking about.....that pearl orange looks cracking  :D :D

Do you have a picture of the whole bike??

Pete
 
Always thought the 3C on the back of the 67-77 Gold Portfolio book looks superb. Black frame plus red tank (slightly pinkish and maybe metallic - allowing for printing of course). Hag.
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Scott,

Damn....knew I had seen it somewhere!  Got a lot on at the moment, so mind is all over the place  :(

It looks cracking (wonder what it would look like with a black frame? - all I need is a tank & one sidecover and I could have summer & winter clothes for the 3C  :P) .

Thanks for the larger photo too.

Pete
 
Dennis said:
The silver frame is Weiss aluminum (White aluminum) RAL 9006.
Dennis
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Dulux powder coat Anotec Silver Grey 51272 is a very close match. I have just got my frame back and it looks great.

Actually, the longer I look at it the less happy I am. Looks too pale and insipid and the metallic too tiny. Oooh I'm getting picky I think. Anyway it's all going back and I will try for a more silver rendition.
 
Totally agree with you on the Silver TS1200 comment Pete, I was toying with the idea of the Rickman Blue/Nickle plated frame scheme, I might have to play with some photo's on paint shop first though.
 

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