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Now you can have a Bianchi Oltre XR4 in any colour you like

Time to get creative as Bianchi opens up bike customiser to flagship Oltre XR4

Celeste is the colour that iconic Italian brand Bianchi is famous for, but you can now choose its flagship Oltre XR4 in any colour you like. 

Bianchi has this week rolled out its online bike configurator called Tavolozza, first enabled on the Specialissima, to the Oltre XR4 allowing you to choose from more than 2,000 colour combinations. 

- Review: Bianchi Oltre XR4 

As well as changing the main colour of the frame, you can also choose the colours of the logos. While you can choose the combination of colours, you are limited to the design of the paint job with the inserts along the top tube, seatstays and fork blades. 

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Bianchi is offering 15 colours for the frame and fork and 14 colours for the inserts, six logo colour choices and the option of a gloss or matt finish. It’s not quite as extensive as some other custom paint options provided by other brands but there’s a good choice available

You can easily change the colour combinations on the website and once you’re happy with the finished bike, you can save it to share on social media as well as getting a unique code. Hand this to your nearest Bianchi dealer and they’ll get your new bike ordered. 

The customised Oltre XR4 frames will be hand-painted in Italy, though the frames are still manufactured in the Far East. 

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These two bikes are ones I've quickly put together, what do you think? If you think you can do better why not head to www.bianchi.com/tavolozza/oltrexr4, create your own custom Oltre XR4 and share it in the comments below.

David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur - Just Ride Bikes

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Mungecrundle | 7 years ago
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I had been taking some comfort in that my club colours didn't match the celeste blue.

Bastards.

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tritecommentbot | 7 years ago
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No chance, Ferrari California in grey has to be one of the most beautiful cars ever. 

 

Pic of mine:

 

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therevokid | 7 years ago
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like a Ferrari, there is only one colour for a Bianchi ....

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RobD | 7 years ago
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lovely work with the grey one, completely undone by the red and acid green one.

 

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tritecommentbot | 7 years ago
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Actually, 

 

I can't have an XR4.

 

In any colour I like 

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PaulBox replied to tritecommentbot | 7 years ago
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unconstituted wrote:

Actually, 

 

I can't have an XR4.

 

In any colour I like 

Me neither, my Mrs would feking kill me if I buy another bike... 

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grayvelo | 7 years ago
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You'd have to be an absolute heathen.

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nowasps | 7 years ago
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The one bike brand that has a specific colour associated with it, providing the opportunity to ignore it completely.

Fair enough, I suppose.

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Jackson replied to nowasps | 7 years ago
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nowasps wrote:

The one bike brand that has a specific colour associated with it, providing the opportunity to ignore it completely.

Fair enough, I suppose.

Probably deliberate. They're cool bikes but I'd never ride something snot green. Kruijswijk looked terrible on one when he was wearing a pink Giro jersey, yellow Lotto NL Jumbo shorts and red hair.

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pamplemoose replied to Jackson | 7 years ago
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Jackson wrote:

Probably deliberate. They're cool bikes but I'd never ride something snot green. Kruijswijk looked terrible on one when he was wearing a pink Giro jersey, yellow Lotto NL Jumbo shorts and red hair.

 

If you have Celeste coloured snot, you might want to visit a doctor!

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rct | 7 years ago
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Given the price of top end frames, I'm surprised that most manufacturers do not offer similar customisation as a standard option.  It was always possible with bespoke framebuilders before the brands took over.

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