My Brompton's first real ride was a hike gone wrong (and now I need touch up paint, another RAL color code search thread)
So I've had my Brompton for a bit over a month now. C Line 12 speed, Prune. I love this bike, truly, but I have apparently decided that "love" means "immediately putting it through hell."
Its first real outing: I messed up my route on Komoot and set it up as a hiking itinerary instead of a cycling one. Result: 15km of gravel, single track, fields, forest, and then at one point the path just... stops existing. I'm talking machete territory. My tired brain waited until 1km before the end to gently suggest that maybe, possibly, I had planned my path wrong. Cool, thanks.
So on its very first ride it took some solid rock hits, branch scrapes, and a few decent gouges. I've got matching scratches on my arms as a bonding exercise. Then, still buzzing from that, I put it straight into a TGV in France, in the luggage racks and corridors that are absolutely not designed for bikes, with the bonus feature of people whacking their suitcases into it. Basically a full baptism by fire in under a week.
Now I'm looking to patch up its first scars. Problem is, I cannot find the RAL code for the Prune 12v paint anywhere. Does anyone happen to know it?
I know it's going to keep collecting scratches and one day I'll just accept it's going to look like a battle worn little tank, but for now I want to try a touch up while I still care. I like tinkering too, so I'm curious what I can pull off here.