Classic colors (was Re: [CR]Raleigh Competition)

(Example: Events:Cirque du Cyclisme:2002)

From: "Kenneth Stagg" <kstagg@harbornet.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:48:58 -0800
In-Reply-To: <8f.15590e89.296f9bee@aol.com>
Subject: Classic colors (was Re: [CR]Raleigh Competition)


1/10/02 5:37:50 PM, OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/10/2002 7:48:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>questor@cinci.rr.com writes:
>
><< robin's egg blue >>
>That sounds like my first "good" bike!
>The blue, BTW. is "lagoon blue" which was Carlton's race colors.

Which brings up a question that has probably been answered before here, but I didn't see it: what companies have a particular color closely associated with their bikes (and what's the color)?

Bianchi has celeste, Gios blue, Richard Sachs would appear to favor red, I always think of Benottos in a sort of silvery beige (which I'm sure that they had a name for.)

What other companies have such recognizable colors?

Ken Stagg
Tacoma, Washington