Motorcycle Colors - Any reason why so few colors?

 Is it some long time standard that bikes don't come in as wide a
choice of colors as autos?  lots of black bikes out there.  must be
some reason....


Craig

 
Black bikes are <sic> "Bad to the Bone". Seriously, sales volume and
cost per unit has probably a lot to do with both metric and some Euro
bikes (Harley's aren't cheap enoungh to be that restrictive) as
opposed to cage volume and cost. BTW, I'd swear 50% of all cars in AZ
are white but that's for obviously different reasons-:)

Bob Nixon..

 e:

Black covers a lot of bad bodywork, so that's why we painted our Rat
Bikes glossy black or primer black during the 1960's, and it has
become known as "Bad Boy Black" to companies like Harley Davidson.

Ducati and Honda have picked up on the flat black for "street fighter"
models.

But the traditional international color code for Japanese sports cars
was White with a Red undercarriage.

Yamaha has used White over Red on some race bikes...

Each Japanese motorcycle company has had its own basic competition
color for decades.

Honda Red, Kawasaki Green, Yamaha Yellow and Black, Suzuki Blue and
White are the corporate colors.

Suzuki experimented with imaginative paint jobs in the late 1980's and
the motorcycle magazines ridiculed them for "juvenile" graphics that
looked like
a surf board or were inspired by "comic books".

Younger riders were angered by the remarks, telling the "more mature"
magazine mavens that they didn't speak for all riders.

When I bought my Hallowe'en FZR1000 (it's black with orange stripes
and red, yellow, violet and teal accents) a Triumph rider told me his
bike was "more mature".

His Sprint was traditional British Racing Green with pale yellow
accents.

 wrote:


    You gotta admit, teal is kinda gay .....


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 On Jun 15, 7:40�am, .p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:


I saved $1300 by buying the Hallowe'en paint job instead of buying the
more "traditional" red, white, and blue FZR...