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Offline beardyimpman

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bsa c15
« on: April 25, 2020, 09:05:24 PM »
can anyone tell me the colour of the maroon on a 1959 c12 thanks
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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2020, 11:52:31 PM »
If you look on the 'net, the shade of maroon/red C15's seems to vary (slightly) all over the shop.



Your best bet is to find an unfaded paint example - inside a toolbox, or under the tank, or behind the kneepads,
or inside the brake backing plate - and have it matched at your local paint shop.

Failing that, you may get lucky and have someone who has been through this tell you what they matched it to.
But even paint shops will tell you to paint everything from the one can, the next one may differ slightly in shade.
And it could have been the same even from BSA...
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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2020, 11:56:03 PM »
Folks have even been known to buy examples of items in good matchable paint to get a good colour match. ?

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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2020, 01:32:16 AM »
R is right. You don’t think every C15 rolled out of BSA with exactly the same shade of red do you? There are always commercial tolerances between batches. No one could get it exactly the same over years of production.
For that matter, what makes you think you have perfect colour vision? Slightly off colour vision is more common among males than you think.
No matter how careful you are some one will say you got it wrong.
It’s just a fact of life.
Cheers,
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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2020, 08:45:58 AM »
It is your bike, so paint it what ever colour red looks right to you.
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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2020, 10:07:45 AM »
All the above is true, and colours varied by the paint supplied and added to the mix. Another thing is true, and that's the BSA in the pic never left Small Heath in that particular shade of red (or with black painted rims come to that) but the owner's happy, and that's what counts.
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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2020, 11:17:06 AM »
Ford black cherry is a good start.
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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2020, 03:30:52 PM »
A repaint obviously, but Ford Black Cherry looks fairly close to that toolbox shown above... ?

https://car-from-uk.com/ebay/carphotos/full/ebay19083.jpg
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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2020, 05:56:41 PM »
RAL3007 - black red. That's the colour for the C12 as in your text. Your heading is C15 which is probably a different colour.
« Last Edit: April 26, 2020, 05:59:10 PM by TGR90B »
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Re: bsa c15
« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2020, 10:02:54 PM »
sorry my mistake the maroon i am looking for is for my bsa c15, have to many bikes and some are c12, thanks
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