Sparkling green color sample

[Peet038]

Hi All,

i am looking for a color sample of the color Sparkling green. This color was used in the early seventies. I am restoring my 1971 FL after being rear ended last year

Thanks in advance for any tips.

[RooDog]

Traditionally, green is an unlucky color for a motorcycle, believe it or not. Perhaps you "accident" proves the point....

[RUBONE]

Traditionally, green is an unlucky color for a motorcycle, believe it or not. Perhaps you "accident" proves the point....

I paint my bikes green specifically to counter that kind of nonsense. I don't hang bells on them either...
Sparkling green is quite attractive. It is a candy color over a silver base.

[Peet038]

Traditionally, green is an unlucky color for a motorcycle, believe it or not. Perhaps you "accident" proves the point....

The bike was (still is..) yellow when i got rear ended

[Mongrel505558]

I've also heard that about green being an unlucky color for a motorcycle, but I'm not a believer in the concept of "luck". The Brits had no problem with green (think "British Racing Green"). Neither did the Japanese. To me green might be the perfect color for a Harley in that it's the color of money - which you will continue to spend as long as you own the bike.

[RooDog]

H-D = Hundred Dollars....

[FL54]

I picked up this ‘68 Shovel years ago that was a God awful sparkle blue. Looked like a bass boat. Looked at photos of bikes of the era and liked sparkling green. Took photo to local painter and he matched it as best he could. Works for me. Unless you’re building a 100 point bike, you could do likewise.

[Peet038]

Thanks for this, good looking bike btw
I have some pictures that i can use. Two weeks ago i saw a sparkling green boattail seat from an early FX on a swapmeet, now i at least know what it looks like for real.

I picked up this ‘68 Shovel years ago that was a God awful sparkle blue. Looked like a bass boat. Looked at photos of bikes of the era and liked sparkling green. Took photo to local painter and he matched it as best he could. Works for me. Unless you’re building a 100 point bike, you could do likewise.

[gitguy]

Take a look here: https://www.bike-urious.com/sparkling-g ... per-glide/

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[Hogey]

My mate painted his bike green . He got taken out at a X road. I think the theory behind the green is it blends in with the county side . PS im not superstishis ( spelt wrong)

[RooDog]

There's super-stishun, and there's observation.
My club brother, Bob, took the high side off of Interstate Ten in New Orleans in 2005. After I escorted his widow down there, boxed his ashes up for the trip back home, I fired up and rode his green Twinkie out of the impound lot. That bike got repainted black.
....RooDog....

[RUBONE]

Don't talk trash to me about black bikes being anything special. Apparently someone forgot to tell the drunk who hit me head on he wasn't supposed to hit a black bike!
Here's some "observation" for you...

[RooDog]

Don't talk trash to me about black bikes being anything special. Apparently someone forgot to tell the drunk who hit me head on he wasn't supposed to hit a black bike!
Here's some "observation" for you...

[FL54]

Don't talk trash to me about black bikes being anything special. Apparently someone forgot to tell the drunk who hit me head on he wasn't supposed to hit a black bike!
Here's some "observation" for you...

Damn Robbie. Glad you walked away from that one. A drunk illegal alien hit my son when he was walking home. Damn near killed him. He was 14 at the time and went through numerous surgeries but he’s pretty normal now years later.