Stickers on Bikes

[Radar]

Only ever put stickers on bikes to hide blemishes. Had a nice Stif sticker on a Marin (hid top tube scratch), Vittoria and Mavic stickers on a very fancy but chipped paint job on an old Dolan Cougar roadframe. Stickers are for tool boxes, track pumps and spares boxes. And yes I am in agreement, only stickers for stuff you have/had.

 

[syncrosfan]

"Not on my bikes, but my son did stickerbomb one of my track pumps"
Perfectly fine, also bigger tools and tool-box (even encouraged I would say)!

 

[Thias]

I liked stickers a lot in my youth. Here is my beloved Hercules I had sitting in the basement for years. Built it up again in 2013 and decided to leave the stickers where they are.



There's no Rock Shox, no Hope, no TACOMA, no ICE parts on that bike. Its not a GT and I don't buy PowerBar products. But the stickers are looking cool and racy

 

[Max P]

Re: Re:

I used to be a real sticker nut - got a huge bag full of hundreds of the things still. Got a couple on the Chameleon but here's my old Haro from BITD when I loved a bit of colour:

Love the Haro

I've got an '85 Master in similar condition. I'll never restore it - all the proper old bikes are so clinically restored these days that they just ain't *right*.

Cheers, yes built it up from the first batch of frames into the country (Faze 7) and kept it all those years until I finally decided to sell it around 2006. It went to someone on RADBMX, kept as a survivor for a while then someone 'restored' it... :cry:

Full story here:

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php ... 138.0.html

http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=23111.0

 

[player]

Re:

I really miss the Oakley thermonuclear protection decals.

Might have to bell Gill on that one

 

[StealthDJ]

I had a bunch of mint sauce stickers on my original GT, back in '92-ish. Recently found the rest of the sticker set, think I'd only used about 3 of them.

I can't bring myself to use any of the others though, unless it was possible to get them duplicated first, somehow - the set is quite a nice thing in its own right.

 

[legrandefromage]

The magazine 'stickers' were often of quite dubious quality. The early ones were great but later they went very poor and I doubt many have survived nearly 25 years. My Zaskar had the blue SACHS for the chain, ONZA for the grips, Panaracer for the tyres, Speed Springs on the forks, Hope for the hubs and MAVIC for the rims.