What Color To Paint The Holmes, opinions needed

[kcmobmx]

I am unsatisfied with the paint job on my Holmes and have torn it down to have it repainted. I am also thinking about changing the color. I am going to run the same red parts. I have thought about yellow, black, red again, white, mabe even blue... who can tell me what colors could you get a Holmes in back in 90/91? does anyone out there have any decals for me?...

what it was:



I may do red again but would like some opinions. Yellow was originally my second choice...

[Lazarou]

That is NICE! I'd go for yellow. It's a common colour for S&Ms but it looks great to me with red parts. (Not keen on the tyres though).

[harris]

can you take a side shot, then run it in a photoshop and change the colour of the frame to see what looks good.
o and i do rather like it   

[kcmobmx]

I am not really diggin the tires either. I am probably going to switch to some skinwalls. I have even thought about running some of the "natural" color tires...

[SaMAlex]

the main colours of the early Holmes were Yellow, Red, chrome, and then a little later, Green and Brown (and probably loads more that were done in odd paint runs). Yellow was what everyone wanted, but I like the red look too

[RyanPartridge]

That's one of the early Holmes' that I know came in yellow...

I say yellow.  

[Philbert]

i always liked s&m's in sludge green! don't know whether that was around in 90/91 though. i'm an s&m newbie

[RyanPartridge]

[kcmobmx]

That's one of the early Holmes' that I know came in yellow...

I say yellow. 

the frame was originally red, about the same color as the re-paint. I really like the yellow

[harris]

if the colour yellow is what my dirtbike is ,i can get a ral code if you want.

[SaMAlex]

Ive just had my Mk2 Holmes painted Yellow. Its a little bit light really but its still fine and it looks great (gotta love SuperbikeDan). I think the Yellow that DSD used on his challenger is a bit orangy, but that also looks great too.

That picture of the Yellow Mk1 Makes me wanna use those Mk1 decals but I think I will use some later ones. They just look so good in that shot. Maybe I should get my chrome mk1 painted yellow .... ?

[kcmobmx]

if the colour yellow is what my dirtbike is ,i can get a ral code if you want.

I will be able to match it up pretty close based on the ones I have seen. thanks though.

[ron burgundy]

Yellow with red parts

[RyanPartridge]

A few years back, a guy named BEN over on Vintage restored an old pre-92 Holmes in yellow. I remember it turned out real nice. He had stickers made and everything. I can't find any of the photos though. I know Moeller put it on the website too...

[Miko]

I agree.  Yellow on a Mk1 Holmes is too perfect to pass on.  I want one myself.  One day...

[kcmobmx]

A few years back, a guy named BEN over on Vintage restored an old pre-92 Holmes in yellow. I remember it turned out real nice. He had stickers made and everything. I can't find any of the photos though. I know Moeller put it on the website too...

I remember it too well. too bad he doesn't have any more of those decals. I could probably have some made off of the scans at your blog.

[RyanPartridge]

A few years back, a guy named BEN over on Vintage restored an old pre-92 Holmes in yellow. I remember it turned out real nice. He had stickers made and everything. I can't find any of the photos though. I know Moeller put it on the website too...

I remember it too well. too bad he doesn't have any more of those decals. I could probably have some made off of the scans at your blog.

Bigtime. Those block letters rule!

I just PM'd BEN asking where we can find photos of his bike...

[kcmobmx]

I wonder if he has any of the scans he used for his decals...

[kcmobmx]

I was unable to download pics from S&Ms website but pics of BENs Holmes can be seen under March 13 2006 at S&Ms website.

[Miko]

Tits.

[nic968]

 Gotta be yellow......^^^^^^^^^^

[RyanPartridge]

Here's your graphics!

[rarman1]

was it DSD that had the s&m chrolmes....

i loved that bike,

the yellow is awsome too though

[rarman1]

Damn it, i want an s&m now


dirtbike or holmes as i've seen one of each for sale ?

[SaMAlex]

You dont really need to do much to get those mk1 Holmes decals. Its just a text font, not really "art work". You could even print it out from 'Word' if you had the font installed. The head tube and seat tube are a bit harder but you could just use a shield.