Well after much indecision I had my paint folks embark on changing the color of my new wondeful yet purple Valkyrie trike - I really wanted red - most friends steered me toward black - my paint guy strongly suggested black - so, being unyielding in my ways, I chose.......Black - as my paint guy prepped the body panels he shared with me he creative thoughts on the color as we didn't want just black - we needed some "bling" flake and pearl and stuff - now he did warn me that black was likely not to be real black once we started adding sparkley stuff - we decided the gold flake with some pearl would be really cool - well, shortly after he applied the second stage material it became pretty apparant what black and gold makes..............GREEN! So I started with a purple trike - brought my vaunted painter in to make it black even that I really wanted red and I got green - is this some kind of metaphor for life? Anyway the green flops hard it's brilliant in the sunlight and it's a unique and very cool color - I'll post pics tomorrow.