they will fade a little, but not that bad. IMO always best to go with black though. no worries about color matching, easier to keep looking clean, etc.
i've seen them in person before while i was at cyclesector and they look great, but it will definitely not match your chain / nuts / other parts on the bike thats red as it is more of a deep red, almost candy, due to the anodizing process. it may fade very little, but not as much with the proper cleaning every once in awhile.
wel i have the candy red 07 r6 with chrome rims...thats y i wanted to go with the red sprocket and gold chain. i dont think black would look too good with the chrome rims but idk. the red sprocket i think would go good with the paint i just dont want it to fade.
no matter what pictures you've seen or what people tell you about the shade it's not relevant as with anodizing it changes per batch. sometimes they are a dark red and sometimes they are a very light red and kinda pinkish. It all depends on the anodizing batch and it's even harder with sprockets as they are also hard anodized unlike other metals that are anodized a certain color.
true to what corey says... with anodizing... its hard to control the amount of pigment that gets soaked into the metal during the curing/sealing state. it all varies per batch.
either way... it'll be hard to get any sort of anodized product to match something that isn't anodized, unless it was from the same batch. best is to just go black.
+2 to the above and if you're anal with colors that goes for all anodizing. too often people exact it to be like paint and consistent, etc and it's just not possible yet.
ya i understand what u guys are saying...what about the stealth tri-metal sprockets that come in differenct colors? are those good sprockets? also corey can u get a speedohealer and the colored stealth sprockets?
I don't know about driven but I had the red cat5 and it turned pink in a year and i garage my bike and don't ride crazy amounts of time(sun exposure) and I kept it very clean and tried waxing it even,so i went with the black cat5.
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