Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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There's no mystery about Bianchi's Celeste (although its origin is a mystery - could be the colour of the sky over Milan, or maybe whatever military surplus paints were available at the time or some other nice narrative). Since the stuff has to be made, it has a specification and is a type of turquoise (a blue-green colour).
Easy way to tell is just to look at Bianchi's website, which is riddled with the stuff. The hex RGB value is #8bddd1, which indicates a blue-green colour with a touch more green than blue.
For a Twitter post those “weird cyclist legs” may elicit but a shrug if indeed that is why the rider decided to show them off in the first place. Firstly, those are scrawny emaciated legs. Second, some of those veins are beset with abnormalities that form when veins get knotted together (can’t recall the medical term). Third, they’ve cranked up the clarity effect in their photo editor of choice to artificially enhance the leg texture. 1 and 2 are worthy of respect, but the third giveaway leaves no doubt about the humblebraggery on display, which will no doubt excite only the handful of ultra lean masochists living in a bubble of power to weight ratio obsession.
Mason Definition looks rather tasty in all their colour range - Blue Grey Black. Im lucky to have visited their HQ and viewed them up close. Decided that their 'Shutter Black' is the new Black and rode one away with a big smile and empty wallet! Great bike Stunning Colour Brilliant Co.
The colour thing feels all a bit Henry Ford Model T, both my bikes are black because there was no other colour options available,so of course black sells more,that's often all we can get...I prefer navy with orange highlights fwiw
Black is slimming.
(also, black isn't a colour - it's a result of the absence of colour).
#nerd
I thought everyone knew that red bikes are faster?!
Having said that, I've just bought a black frame - but the bar tape will be red!
That's not a blue bike. This is a blue bike.
seen that on WW - in fact I think you and I are in the middle of a chat about H0 ergolevers there
OMG, forum worlds leaking into each other, noooooo....
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It is grey. Mason call it Element Grey.
You have to remember that this is road.cc where quality cycling journalism goes to die. Their motto is 'Click Bait And Ads'.
How the hell do you think we'd be able to give you a free product without any advertising ya melt??
My personal motto is: if you don't like it, don't waste your time and mine reading it. i'm happy to delete your account.
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Looks blue to me. My favourite colout bike frame ever was my old Cotic Soul which was described as 'Custard'.
Celeste is green and that mason bike looks grey!
Not sure I agree with you about celeste, but the Mason definitely looks grey.
It is belly-button-fluff blue.
Just been reading about Bianchi's and their famous green frame colour is, you guessed it:
Celeste.
But I suppose it depends on the lighting and our eyes, and colour is pretty subjective anyway.
Of course Celeste is blue. Who thinks it’s green? They’re wrong, of course. Probably about most things in life. Celeste, as in celestial, as in the sky, as in blue. You don’t say a colour is sky-green, do you?