Tim Potuijt

My name is Tim Potuijt and am living in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. I was surfing and searching on the web for pink tires. Than I came on your site! Realy cool, a site for pink bikes! I got three of them! Pink is my favourite colour, it makes me happy! My bikes, a touring bike (that was the first one) racingbike and mountainbike are all painted in Magenta (RAL 4010).

The race- and mountainbikeframe are both a Ridley. You can have painted your bike there in any colour and have any tekst on the frame! To the mountainbike frame I add the Magura Durin fork and Magura Louise brakes. Magura’s colour of the year for 2008 was/is pink!

I ride my racing bike on the road here in Holland (the flat lands) and in the France Alps. Did the Alpe d’ Hues this year. The ATB I ride as well in the Alps and in the Ardenes in Belgium. Also in the woods and dunes here in Holland! My touring bike in my own city.

Pink rules!

M. McGrath

‘M’ writes:

“My boyfriend took [this photo] on our first little outing at a park.  I’m still a beginner’s beginner (he’s more of an intermediate expert i guess)  so me and my pink bike haven’t been on any real trails yet.  But I look forward to it and he is a great teacher!

“I should tell you–  your site is what convinced me that it was ‘cool’ to get a pink bike.  I’ve never really seen myself as a pink kind of woman… but he thought I’d really like it and found your site to show me.  And I got hooked.  I love it!

“Sooo… It’s a: GT Avalanche 3.0 (women’s specific)  And I got it offline at performancebike.com (for a great price I might add.)  We’re currently located in North Carolina and we’re hoping to get some time off to go to Ashland.  We’ve heard that there is some awesome riding to do out there.

“As for accessories, I’m assuming you mean bike parts- I haven’t added any… but I’m happy to tell you he bought my riding outfit for me for my birthday from Dicks Sporting Goods, including helmet, gloves, spare tire, and a bike tool.

“I just wanted to contribute to your FABULOUS site.  Thank you so much for the opportunity.”

Sari Summers

Sari sent these photos of her pink GURU. She writes that she definitely doesn’t ride it enough.

Brandon’s fiance

Brandon wrote:

“My friend Josh and I spent the last month stripping down and converting this schwinn road bike for my fiance’s wedding gift. We ordered the majority of the parts from various ebay stores and other online bike shops. Our wedding day is 10-10-08 and I hope that she loves this as much as I loved building it.”

Congratulations on both your marriage and the new bike!

Nina Vera

Nina writes:

“I’m from the Philippines and I ride a pink bike!

“My bike’s name is Andie, named after the girl from Pretty in Pink.  Andie is a road bike.  I’ve been riding mountain bike for almost 4 years now, and road for almost 3 years.  I do a lot of racing both in cycling and multisport.  When I was building this bike, I wanted a very feminine, cutesy type of bike, but with deceiving looks, so it also has to be a very fast machine!  Though I continuously work on the engine (that’s me), Andie does have some light, fast (and cute) components to keep her on top of her game!  I got all the parts from various local bike shops here in Manila, while the rear purple skewer was given to me by a fellow cyclist I met during the Tour of EGAT in Thailand.  He liked my purple tires and gave me the skewer to match!  The pink Speedplay pedals were a surprise gift from my boyfriend!

“The frame is Cannondale Six13 Feminine, a women-specific frame in Pearl White.  It has a sort of rockstar look to it.  If you look closely, the frame has tiny white glitters and pale yellow stars painted on random parts of the frame.  I used as many pink accessories as I can, as long as it looks good with the overall harmonic pinkness of the bike.  Right now, I have a pink saddle (that says ‘Ride Like a Girl’), pink Speedplay pedals, Jagwire cables and bar tape.  I also have purple tires and a purple rear skewer.  The gold chain adds extra ‘bling-age’ to the white frame and pink components.  I think it makes the bike look more outgoing and fun.

“I’m waiting for the pink Hudz for Ultegra to come out!  I’d also like to get a set of pink tires, skewers, carbon spacers, seatpost clamp, bottle cages and screws, all in baby pink!  I’ll have to keep looking around and find them though.  I also saw some pink brake pads in a bike shop a while back, but they’re for mountain bikes.  I’ll have to check if they’re available for road.  Finally, I’ll have a sticker made, with ‘Andie’ written in silver letters to put on the frame.”

John Matzek v2

We’ve met John Matzek before, and now here’s his “after” bike. He writes that since his previous photos, his friend Scott Smith painted his bike, and he got some component upgrades. Nice ride, John!

Ian Carvel

Ian from Basel, Switzerland sent in these photos and letter:

“This is my single speed commuter bike:

Frame:              Cannondale Six 13 Team (carbon & alloy)
Fork:                 Cannondale Carbon Premium Fork
Bar:                  FSA K Force Carbon flat
Stem:               FSA OS-115
Crank:               FSA Gossoma single speed carbon ring guard
Tires:               Continental Sports
Levers:              Kore Cyclocross
Seat post:         USE Carbon Alien
Saddle:             Fizik Nisene
Grips:               Gusset Neon Pink
Graphics:          Space Invader graphics!

Weight: 8 kilos, 17 pounds.

Reason:

“I created this to spook the homophobic people in the city!!! It was to have fun with a good platform!
This bike has a lot of respect in the office!

I have officially ‘PINKED’ my bike!”

Maria

Maria sent photos of two of bikes:

“I love my pink Cannondale – it’s a real special machine. The Fondriest was my first pink bike but I think you’ll agree the Cannondale is a vision of pinkness!!”

Sara

Sara writes:

“I ran across your site right after I order my new bike. Its a Pake frame with bubble gum pink Velocity rims and matching pink wrap on the handle bars.  I’ve had it for about one month and already I ride it every day to work (brooklyn to manhattan) and have road it out to montauk.  I love it, I feel like its pinkness makes it all the more fun to ride.”

Mark Telford

Mark Telford from London England sent in this photo with a description of his bike:

“Topend Eliminator with pink forks, pink shadow conspiracy brake cable, pink use headset cap, Zipp wheels and Corima front. Usually run limited edition pink tufo tubulars but saving them for that special race!”