My color-of-first-choice is not a Riv-offered color, but it is the color of my last remaining (out of 5) Rivendells: Ford Blue, no damned cream accents. I had a nice powdercoat done to the 1999 (about which you've heard far more than you want to hear) after C Matthews's alterations, to replace the original Top Drawer metallic Navy with Cream Joe Bell job. Me, for blue, there's no blue like Ford Blue, and the duller finish compared to the sparkly Navy + clearcoat actually, IMO, makes the shade look even better. The powdercoater IIRC was a local who has done much good bicycle finishing; recall the "liquid" effect of the pale blue powdercoat of the 1958 Herse; the shade came close to the original but faded Herse blue but looked, IMO, better by far.
But, shoot, C Matthews's last powdercoat vendor is not nearly as good as the earlier one; the otherwise very pretty sage green powdercoat (I vote this Color #2) on the 2020 AM-hub road bike is lumpy in places. I'll spare you another photo. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguTxrNpHd6SzZz%3DM6LPDr_BRPJYgoS33a%3D-KGWhca-FaQ%40mail.gmail.com.
