Every Sage is built for a specific rider, and the finish is where that gets personal. Some riders want a statement — bold color, a graphic that means something, artwork built around a place or a memory. Others want the bike to say nothing at all beyond the material itself: raw titanium, doing what titanium does.
There’s no wrong answer. What matters is that the bike leaves our shop looking like it’s actually yours.
FINISH OPTIONS
We primarily work in Cerakote — it’s the finish we recommend for most builds, and the one you’ll see across most Sage bikes in the wild. Wet paint and anodizing are also available for riders who want that specific look. Every option below includes starting pricing; nothing gets applied to your frame without your sign-off first. Contact us to talk through what you’re picturing.
CERAKOTE
Cerakote is a ceramic-based coating originally developed for firearms and aerospace hardware, and it’s become the standard finish for high-end titanium bikes for good reason. It bonds to the frame at a molecular level rather than sitting on top of it like paint — the result is a coating roughly 40 microns thick (about half the width of a human hair) that adds almost no weight, resists scratches, chemicals, and fading far better than traditional paint, and blends seamlessly into the raw titanium around it.
It’s our primary finish, which means it’s also where we have the most experience dialing in exactly what you want — color matching, multi-tone work, and clean transitions between color and raw titanium.
WET PAINT
Paint remains one of the most versatile finishes available — if you can picture a color or a finish quality, paint can likely get you there, and it’s the easiest way to color-match a frame to components, wheels, or accessories that aren’t titanium. It’s a heavier finish than Cerakote and requires more upkeep over time, but for riders chasing an exact color or a specific paint effect, it’s still the right tool.
BEAD BLAST
Bead blast is the finish most riders never think to ask about, and it’s also one of our most popular — because it’s not really a finish at all. It’s titanium doing what titanium does best: bead blasting doesn’t add color or material, it uses fine media to create a soft, matte, consistent texture across the frame that shows off the metal itself rather than covering it up.
You can go bead-blasted frame with raw graphics, or raw frame with bead-blasted graphics — either way, there’s nothing to chip, fade, or wear through over the life of the bike, because there’s no coating to begin with.
ANODIZE
Anodizing uses an electrical process to change the oxide layer on the titanium itself, which means the color you see is a real physical property of the metal — no dye, no added material, no added weight. It’s how you get the iridescent blues, purples, greens, and pinks that only titanium can really produce, and it’s inherently one of the more environmentally low-impact finishes we offer.
PRICING
Bead blast is included in the price of every frame at no additional cost — it’s our standard finish and always available with no upgrade needed.
For Cerakote, wet paint, and anodizing, a single-color, stock-color logo finish (SAGE logo, Owl, Made in USA, Brewed in Oregon, and model name) starts at $650. Choosing custom mixed colors instead of our stock palette increases that base price.
Full custom artwork — your own design, your own layout, graphics that are actually yours — starts at $1,400. Custom work goes through a process: our artist creates your design first, and once you approve it, it’s submitted to our painter for final pricing based on the actual complexity of the work. Because of that, the final number can land above the starting price depending on what the artwork calls for — but $1,400 is a realistic floor to plan around, and we’ll talk through your idea with you before anything moves forward so you’re not guessing.
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