How important is colour / paint jobs

timboellis · Traffic Copper Joined: 06 Jul 2009 Karma :

Just wondering is it the same as cars for example a Bright yellow or Ford orange and a fancy paint job does this take th evalue down much when selling.

Just wondering as seen various bright coloured bikes for quite cheap and wondering is it the colour or the fact its a bit tatty?

rac3r · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Karma :

I don't think so unless it's a non factory job
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N cee thirty · Banned Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Karma :

well matt black on my cg looks sick,IMO
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L-Jam · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Karma :

Bland question is too bland.

The value of anything is how much someone is prepared to pay for it.
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calyx · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Karma :

Yes son. It does.

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Frost · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 May 2004 Karma :

I saw a Peugeot modded up with alloys and shit, only it was BRIGHT pink. Started for sale at £4k, down to 3.5 etc all the way down to £1000, and still no one bought it!

Standard colour schemes are worth more, weird and wonderful ones can be worth more or less, often less. Apparently with cars silver is the best for resale value. With bikes it's probably green for a kwak, blue for suzuki, red for ducati etc.

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Ciar?n · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Karma :

Custom paint is exactly that, for customs.

If you repaint a bike, even if it was in perfectly good nick.

Instinct screams it's been binned.
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Teflon-Mike · tl;dr Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Karma :

Look through the catalogues & you'll find that the manufacturers dont offer many different colours or colour schemes on bikes, like they do for cars.
Go into a ford dealer and you'll have about fifty paint schemes to choose from, on a bike, often lucky to get five.
So, no, if it WAS such a big influence on saleability, the manufacturers would be offering more colour options, they dont, becouse it isn't.
SOME 'factory' colour schemes are more desirable though, others not so, but its not AS significant as on cars.
Custom paint is a completely different story, and 99 times out of 100, non standard paint makes the bike less valuable as it DOES normally imply the bikes been binned and hence had to be re-painted, though, many people will re-paint an older bike to smart it up, or give it thier own look, often replacing out dated race replica paint jobs with plain finish, or putting a more modern replica scheme on an older bike etc. BUT as far as value goes, it rarely adds anything.
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