For me I love the look of the black nomad 2. I love the white font.
... it took me awhile to adjust to the sloping top tube and large-diameter frame tubing coupled with 26in wheels and TiG-welded construction
It's oversized aluminium and mountain bike frames becoming virtually generic in your run of the mill LBS what done it. People start associating "bicycle" with a chunky, purposeful bike, like a bulldog, whereas the previous instant assumption was whippy and lean but tall like a greyhound. Eventually even classicists too came to share at least part of the new assumption of form. Some of us were just insisted on steel, or returned to steel after the new format was well established and had worn-in a niche of acceptance like two metal components grinding together.
I'm not surprised that "ghost silver" photographs white. I like it even better in the outline version that makes it hard to see, especially in places that are, shall we say, inadequate policed. When I first saw a Thorn bike, I had been inspecting it for at least thirty seconds before I spotted it was a Thorn, because the maker's name was effectively semi-obscured by the dirt of a hard ride to the pub I saw it at.
I give the marketing phrase "ghost silver" to Robin Thorn free of charge.
