Nice! Welcome here
. I also chose this frame as my first build in years. I have build up around 6 Bikes myself; but that was around 20 years ago. Dealing with chinese frames was a pain in A back then.You will be the first one here to set it up mechanically. Curious to see how it works out; shouldnt be a problem though. I hope this build goes smoothly. Still contemplating Wheeltop groupset/Di2 /Sram electric or mechanical. Depends on what I can get my hands on I guess. I ordered the XL frame in Pearl White. Going for that Bora Hansgrohe look
I ordered the raw frame to have it painted locally.
At the moment I am torn between two colors:
1) like Bora Red Bull, but instead of the sponsors, report the names of some symbolic walls of the Northern Classics (and maybe a Flanders lion instead of the red bull);
2) like Tarmac SL8 dove gray marbled effect.
I started with the idea of a light silver color (like the SL8 PRO) but, as beautiful as it is, it seems a bit "flat" to me, and so I would like something that gives a "movement" effect.
The nice thing about the Bora Red Bull color is the tone-on-tone writing but, from the videos I've seen, in the sun they don't stand out as much as I would like, and the frame simply looks white (so I'm considering using a color slightly darker than white).
The dove gray marbled color is very nice and in the sunlight it looks even better, but it seems too shiny and I don't like that, so in that case I would opt for a semi-gloss finish.
Obviously instead of the S-Works writing and Specialized logo I had thought of applying Spcycle writing on the down tube and Spcycle logo on the front of the head tube (both modified, see attached photo), without writing on the down tube it would seem too "empty" to me.
I attach some videos where you can clearly see the colors.
What do you suggest?
Thanks