Pink Salsa Warbird

Just bought a Salsa Warbird.  While I'm excited about the new ride I struggling with the color.  Anyone else out there got the 2020 Pink Warbird?  How long does it take you to get used to the color?  Every bike I have is matt black 😏.

Sounds like you needed a Chamois Hagar instead.  I'm not sure I'd ever get used to Pink.

I wish my boring Giant Revolt was pink.  Matte black is so boring.

Volsung wrote:I wish my boring Giant Revolt was pink.  Matte black is so boring.

I feel the same way towards my black Revolt, but not sure I’d love a pink bike.  I always thought the grey zebra camo Warbird was a great look.

If you don't like it, paint it or move it on. It's your bike.

But ... what's wrong with pink? It's distinctive, you won't see yourself coming and going. But others will. And the color has legitimate cred in high-end gravel racing: pink was the color of Mercier, found at the sharp end of the pack in the Grand Tours in the days before (also after) the high mountain passes were paved. It's a perfectly good color.

Yea, that was my favorite too, but missed my opportunity to get one.

I think the pink is pretty awesome.  I’ve got a red Warbird, but I would totally rock the pink one.  

Back in the day, for the record, pink was the masculine color (blood! anger!) and blue was the feminine color (think Virgin Mary's robes). So there's that.

Way back around 1970 I passed up a bright magenta top-of-the-line Nishiki road bike on sale because I couldn't quite deal with the color. I bought a boring green Raleigh instead and have regretted that decision for 50 years.

 Nothing wrong with the color pink.  

I had a sparkly pink powder coat on my Moonlander.  I like the Red Baron/Flying Circus approach.

They’re all pink on the inside...

Somebody I ride with has a pink Salsa Cutthroat with an Apex 1 build. It looks fantastic in person. If the Warbird is the same color pink, I would take one in a hurry.

I'm so tired of black bikes. My TT bike, road bike, and MTB are all matte black and graphite because it seems nothing else was being sold 2014-2018. Then my fat bike this year is gloss black because nothing else was in stock.

Funny I have never owned a black bike.

Zman

Some of my favorite things in the world are pink.

I have pink bands on my Hampsten in honor of Andy's Giro win..

Enjoy the bike and laugh at the lack of maturity of anyone who gives you crap about it..

If you really dislike a color (pink or otherwise) investigate plasti-dip.  Folks do whole cars with it, rims, etc...  I sprayed my fork and stem just to change things up, peeled it off a year later, pretty easy.  Sprayed another frame with clear as an alternative to frame tape.  Frame protector and/or color changer in one.  Get a spray can of color and a spray can of clear and go for it.  Hints:  warm the cans (sink of hot water for 30 min or more). Get a cheap trigger attachment for the spray cans (much easier to spray with a trigger).  Coat, coat, coat—use it all.  Just start at one end, finish, repeat.  4-5 coats.  Thick coats are OK, you can go quite a bit heavier than regular spray paint, it’s kind of a challenge to make it run. It will be matte finish, but they sell glossifier top coats (can’t say if those work or not).  And when you get impact or scratch damage or whatever get a tin of xylene, get a brush or put a glove on, and rub it out by wetting your brush or finger in the xylene.  It will soften and liquefy the plastidip and allow you to blend it out.  Works well.  And if you peel it away and get any little pieces you can’t get at the xylene will dissolve it and allow you to wipe it away.  It’s a cheap experiment—just do your fork first and see if you like it.  If not, peel it off...  

depends on the pink, some pink looks cool, anything but hot pink, that's just an eye sore

Now that's pink! Too bad the bike doesn't have larger diameter tubes to show it off better.