I am thinking its time for a fresh look, and am thinking about re painting my bike over the winter. Nothing crazy, probably either black and pearl white two tone combo, similar to the 14 black and white ultra, or 2013 chrome yellow and beer bottle brown.

Just wondering if non standard colors would affect resale or trade in values down the road.

 

it can. depends on what the job will look like. it also makes it harder, (possibly)t sell, as you have to find someone who likes your paint job, or may give you less, because they will want to repaint it when they own it. However, enjoy your bike!! do what you want to do. If you keep making decisions based on something down the road, you are owned by your bike, not the other way around. Get a good painter, one that will do quality work, so down the road, it still looks good. And in my opinion, elegance always stays in style vs, some wild paint scheme. Good luck!

 

Yes it will. May want to look at the Harley paint shop and invest in a repaint that matches the factory custom paint available. Example would be the Ivory/Aqua 2 tone. Classic color and available from the factory. Likely would not hurt the resale.

 

If it's Lilac and you don't live in San Francisco, yes.

 

is this on your '06? if the paint is worn and tired on that new paint can only help. you aren't talking murals of camels and wolves so the colour scheme is pretty tame. i have painted all my bikes and gone with non-stock colours. i did not paint them because i was looking at resale, i painted them because that is the colour i wanted. always some shade of green and solid colours. my bikes were always older and it never made selling them difficult. when i sold them, the paint was always better than when i bought them. do it because you want to but if you do something out on the edge, then you need to find the right person. if you go fairly tame, then any colour will do. how many people know what the stock colours of older bikes are anyway. I was asked once if my bike was a stock colour. i replied yes......stock Ford platinum green

 

My buddy painted his 2009 Fatboy orange pearl...sold it in 3 days..so it didn't seem to bother his sale.

 

if you are doing a basic paint job i dont see it effecting anything, the more exotic paints are when you start getting into issues of taste. a simple color or 2-tone will most likely help you as it will be different. unless you do something stupid w/ it

 

Lilac is sooo "last year" ! Puce is de rigueur this season.

 

Last year as i searched for my bike i ran across so many bikes i liked....downside was the paint on them... 8 out of 10 had Flames or some sort of personal touch painted on them
So as long as its nothing so personalized you should be fine

 

The fact that you used those words tells me that you may have done more than pass through San Francisco...

LOL