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10th May 2006
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Senior Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Vegas, The Desert Coast
Posts: 2,813 Sportster/Buell Model: XL1200C Sportster/Buell Year: 2004
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Is black the fastest color?
I would think that black paint would hold more pigment than any other color and would therefore be the heaviest. Also when the sun hits it the surface would expand the most causing more drag. Wouldn't these factors cause it to be the slowest color? I've found a couple studies one on rowing boats and one on burning candles and both say yellow was the fastest. Are we being tricked by people into believing black is faster? I've seen a lot of fast orange stuff in my day, Tony Stewart is pretty quick, but bicycle racers wear the yellow jersey when they are fastest. What do we tell our children? Is yellow fastest? The Screamin Eagle race team is all about orange.
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Master Custom Bike Builder
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 3,298 Sportster/Buell Model: XL1199 (1200 Conv.) Sportster/Buell Year: 2005 Sportster/Buell Model #2: XR1200X Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2011
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Really bored tonight, eh?
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Yep. Mind works harder than ambition. |
10th May 2006
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Maine
Posts: 4,127 Sportster/Buell Model: 883XLH - 1200 Sportster/Buell Year: 2003 Sportster/Buell Model #2: NRHS Stg 3 Thunderstorm Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2000
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well it all depends on if you are using additive or subtractive color theory to base your assumptions  but in short, no, black is not the fastest color...red has always been faster on cars and I've always thought that red was faster bikes too...but I've had a hard time getting people to go along with this...of course...those people all have black bikes so 
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Chief Know It All
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: the show me state
Posts: 434 Sportster/Buell Model: 883 hugger Sportster/Buell Year: 1999
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i think white would be faster. white is absence of color. no color no weight from any kinda dye or paint pigments. white reflects. what reflects speed? as i reflect on this thought my mind is blank. blank like the color white. black sure didnt make my bike fast.
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Chief Master Mechanic
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ozark Country
Posts: 485 Sportster/Buell Model: Sportster 1200 Custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2005 Other Motorcycle Model: Dyna WideGlide Other Motorcycle Year: 1996
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Of course Red is the 'fastest color'...
Just ask any law enforcement officer.
They stop more Red vehicles, 2 wheels or 4, than any other color.
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Senior Chief Know It All 1st Class
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Woodbridge Va.
Posts: 1,112 Sportster/Buell Model: 1974 XLH Sportster/Buell Year: 74
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YUP...black is the fastest
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10th May 2006
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Not the fastest, Or the slowest, Just the cheapest. |
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Originally Posted by Lightning
Not the fastest, Or the slowest, Just the cheapest. |
ohhh yeah...this thread is headed for the toilet! 
I say brown is the fastest color...I've seen some pretty fast horses |
10th May 2006
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Philth-adelphia
Posts: 265 Sportster/Buell Model: XL883C (past) Sportster/Buell Year: 04 Sportster/Buell Model #2: FXSTD (present) Sportster/Buell Year #2: 07
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black is not a color, it's a shade. So your question is irrelevant.
Sorry, just being a smart a$$…  |
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