Your choice

[RussellS]

I know, but that is the problem, they are both beautiful.

Are you looking at the same pictures I am looking at? What is the saying, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Neither looks very good to me. Not bad, just not great or very good. OK if you want a basic, blah bike. The matte, sanded black frame needs a coat of gloss on it to make it shiny. The black red white frame has an orangish color to the red. Its not RED. Its a mixed up mutilated reddish kind of color. And the black and white on the frame are matte, not glossy. Again, if BLAH is what you are after, you picked two good bikes.

[BRM]

Like others I dont like both schemes very much.
How long are you planned to do with your bike?
Can you get other paintschemes in your country?
Do they come with same price?

An option will be to choose the BOB one and then after some time when you know for sure you don't need warranty, you do a paintjob something like the Sagan version.

Nibali



Sagan

[Timmy269]

Here in Belgium I van choose off thise two colors, etixx quicjk step, thinkoff Saxo, Astana and cameleon of Boonen

[HammerTime2]

!!! FASHION WEENIES ALERT !!!

[Timmy269]

Like others I dont like both schemes very much.
How long are you planned to do with your bike?
Can you get other paintschemes in your country?
Do they come with same price?

An option will be to choose the BOB one and then after some time when you know for sure you don't need warranty, you do a paintjob something like the Sagan version.

Nibali



Sagan

In the bikeshop I saw this frame with the DT Swiss wheels that I have. It will be this one or the one with te red. Not an easy choice.

[tinozee]

Go with the Red one imo. The lines of the paint sharpen the lines of the frame a bit, especially near the seat tube top tube junction and at the front of the tt near the head tube. It makes the sloped tt look less curvy. If it is a neon orange/red that is even better. It's hard to get true color in photos like this. The S-WORKS looks great on that one as well. So in summary, if that red is neon, get it.

The digi camo (or whatever that is) and the Nibali shark are terrible imo, euro cheese! And BoB paint is very 2012. Finally, I don't tghink it's wise to choose your frame based on the look of your wheels.

[mattyNorm]

If it's a choice between the same frame the those wheels are going on said frame why not choose the paint that matches the wheels better? I agree with many other, go red, all black is boring.

[BRM]

In the bikeshop I saw this frame with the DT Swiss wheels that I have. It will be this one or the one with te red. Not an easy choice.

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[wheelsONfire]

Those frames look hideous. But on the other hand i dislike many Colnago designs to.

The black or red version looked much better.

[BRM]

Those frames look hideous. But on the other hand i dislike many Colnago designs to.

The black or red version looked much better.

That it is not your thing I can understand.
Some people dont have any feeling and taste for design. They are stuck in their grey world.

You say that these paintschemes are hideous, but how can you justify the choice for the others? Seldom I saw such a boring, unbalanced, simple, 13 in a dozen paintschems as these.

I don't understand that big brands like Specialized use such a boring paintschemes (these normal schemes)
The BOB is a bit outdated and the red one, I have hardly words for. An average chinese supplier can deliver these days your chinese carbon frame in a simpel(chinese) paintscheme. Paintscheme that radiates that it is made by an average person and definitely not a real designer.
Here the red Specialized paintschem looks very familiar to such a chinese. It lacks everything.

Red and white paintschemes are also very long used already makes half the world has a red and white bike.
Not Always you have a choice but when you can I would go for a more personal bike than to blend in the crowd with a 13 in a dozen paintscheme.

The Nibali paintscheme is a nice airbrush. Mix of style, elegance and with a funny twist. Pretty good in balance.
The Sagan paintscheme is totally different, its contemperary style.
With both you wil have a bike with pretty unique and stylish looks.

If you reject these paintschemes ok , but dont do like the others are so nice, they aren't.

[Timmy269]

I have photoshopped the frames I can buy. The third one is the one of the Ettix quick stepp team

[BRM]

Your pics can't be seen. Upload them to an imagehost like Imgur / tinypic orso . . .

[Timmy269]

Your pics can't be seen. Upload them to an imagehost like Imgur / tinypic orso . . .

Thanks , I hope you can see them now

[lannes]

i prefer the Etixx black, the red is a bit fluoro, which cheapens the look

[Svetty]

Gloss black for me