Ibis’s new bike is a 160mm 26″ Mojo HDR. No, wait. It’s a 130mm (or 150mm) travel 27.5″…
Calfee is a very interesting brand. For some, it immediately conjures images of bamboo bikes. Others, high end…
While it’s been 27.5″ this, 650B that, and general tweener fever everywhere , today the original wheel debate…
If you think you know Fuji, you might just want to think again. When Fuji contacted us about…
It looks like a Bandit, it smells like a Bandit, but it’s not a Bandit. Get up close…
When David first pinged us with an offer to feature his bike as a Reader’s Ride, what seemed…
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Example color swatch for coating components (levers, etc.)
blackburn usa anodizing options for their racks/waterbottle cages – probably from the late 80′s
nipple rings
Looks like pieces you would put in a stress tester and coloring is to code them and test paint and how it holds up under loads
The colors of the new Saris bike racks?
I don’t know what it is but Iasrever’s answer seems the best to me.
Those look like paint samples.
Popsicle sticks for homemade popsicles
Urinary cathater rods for straightening a bent wang.
Teletubbies deflated for storage?
Answer from our source: “Blackburn once had a rainbow of colors available for their racks. These were basically the clipped ends of the rack struts.”
That color palette would have perfectly matched any mid 80′s Dave Scott Centurion. By the end of the 80′s they had neon colors.
Crank Cotter Sizer
Ninja secret spikes color coded to match the kit of the day with points removed for safer cycling. Or, what Kristibee said.
Blackburn Designs’ color samples!!
Guar-on-teed!!
BTW!! These samples are powder coated as opposed to anodized!
Cuktural enrichment?