When I was assembling my road bike a year ago, I was considering what colour or colours I should go for. I of course knew that the frame and the fork was silver, but what colour or colours should the saddle and the bar tape be? Should I go for a coloured bottle cage and coloured accessories as well? And should I opt for one colour or many? Today it is quite easy to add some colour to your bike. And it's also quite hard, actually.
When you start to search the web you can find all kinds of bicycle-related stuff, that you can accessorise your bike with. A pink bottle cage? Sure. Yellow bar tape? Absolutely. (Actually I found a pink bottle cage for my sister's road bike, by chance. And yellow bar tape for that vintage Peugeot Mont-Blanc that I sold earlier this year, by chance and at a discount too.) Well, I was just putting together my bike and one day when I was in a bicycle shop I found a blue Selle Italia SLR saddle in a clearance sale basket. Blue? Why not? Blue and silver might work really well together, won't they? And blue it was. My next step was to go for blue bar tape and when I found tires with a blue sides at a reduced price... Then, at a second hand market I found a metallic blue bottle cage for only 10 krona, about € 1. More blue it was.
Today
Anyway, I am happy with my choice. I think it looks really good. And since I took this photo I have changed that black chaincatcher, that you can see if you look closely, for a blue one...
Tomorrow
I actually doubt that I will buy them eventually, but I think that these chainring bolts are just awesome.
(We borrowed this picture from Loaded Precision Inc. Hope that's OK!)
I am, though, looking for a new saddle. As much as I do love my saddle... OK, to be honest, after my first race with it, last year, my buttocks were so sore that I could barely walk properly. Every step I took was accompanied by a "Ow!" But now I love it. I don't know if the saddle somehow needed to be broken in or if I have adjusted to the saddle, but it's comfortable. (As much as a really hard racing saddle can be comfortable...) I realise, though, that even though I take good care of it eventually I will have to replace it. So to be all set I have started to keep my eyes open, have a look around every now and then. But try finding a blue non-retro saddle!
(We borrowed this picture from Euro-Asia Imports. Hope that's OK!)
This is the saddle I've got, and ideally this is also the saddle I would get. Because I know that it works and that I like it. Finding, or trying out, a new saddle can be really hard. Also, it is a Selle Italia saddle, which means that my bike is almost completely Finnish-Italian. (It's also a little bit American, French and Japanese.) But it's out of stock. And there are no examples on ebay either. I could go for a retro saddle, but I'm not into that on my road bike. I'm using it to race! Or I could go for a new colour... I mean, I could simply go for a black saddle, but I think that's boring.
Well, it's not a big problem. Absolutely not. But if I could, I would wish for more colour options.
Ride safe!
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