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I'm trying to remove all these annoying labels from my bike. On the main frame there is one big logo, but I'm not sure if it's a sticker or not. The frame is black, but it's very cheaply made, and the logo is a bit higher, but between the letters it gets lower again. Is there some laser techique to get logos like this onto a frame? Or are that also just some weird kind of stickers?

It's almost certainly stickered if it's a cheap bike, plus laser etching is usually reserved for bare metal frames - Titanium in particular. Cheap or not, it's still probably got a clear coat over it, and that sticker is almost certainly underneath the clear coat. Unless you're prepared to strip it down to raw metal, prime it, and paint it, you're probably better of just leaving it as it is - especially if it's a cheapie.

If the bike was inexpensive it is likely a sticker. Can you feel an edge with your finger nail? You can try to warm the adhesive with a hairdryer and gently peel the sticker off. If the glue residue won't come off try alcohol or GOOF OFF a chemical made for that purpose. Try the chemicals on a small area that is likely to get scratched anyway (like the rear drops near the axle slot) in case it damages the paint. If you cannot feel an edge the sticker may have been applied before the clear coat of paint in which case you can't remove them without ruining the paint.

I use 3M Adhesive Remover. It has gotten off all my stickers and duct tape, even some very tough [stuff] that I thought was a lost cause, and has not hurt any of my paint jobs, even some pretty ghetto paint I have used. I got mine at Walmart, but I'm sure any hardware store will have it.

Be real carefull when using decal removers, such as those used by model builders ( I have been a builder for a very long time) many of thes removers will also remove paint. Then you have a nasty spot on your bike. If you want to disguise the make of your bike, try masking the surrounding area and use auto body touch up spray paint. Most auto part stores will carry this. just try to get as close a color as possible, OR tape up a cool pattern and get a contrasting color.

The traditional bike label is a decal. This is essentially the same sort of decal you used to botch while trying to apply it to the wing of a model airplane as a kid, except that, after application, a solvent is applied to dissolve the decal and cause it to "become one with" the paint/varnish.

A hobby shop would have the solvent used for decals -- you could try a little of that and see if it loosens the decal. But keep in mind that a layer of varnish may have been applied over the whole mess.

I'd be very careful with solvents, some are quite strong and will damage the paint. Be sure to check before. Sometimes nothing happens for a few minutes, and then the paint comes off suddenly.I've been quite successful removing "void if opened" stickers by freezing with liquid nitrogen or freeze spray -listproducts.php?cId=10&lang=1 or a hot air gun as mikes proposed.

If it's a decal, it was applied by first putting it in HOT water, then put in place. I use the exact opposite to remove these. Get a rag soaked in HOT water, steaming or boiling, and wrap or cover the decal. It will slip lose in short order, say a 10-30 seconds.

If it's a sticker, you can heat it with a hair blow-dryer until it's soft, then peel it away. You'll need something to remove the sticker's glue, though. It's messy, and likely to mar or dull your paint job. The Wall-Mart adhesive remover mentioned above should be nice for this.

A several weeks ago I bought some bike name stickers, but then I got a new bike, so I had to remove them, because I wanted to sell the old one. Here: -faq.html ; I learned that it goes off easily when heaten up with a blowdrier, so I tried and it went off almost by itself without damaging the original paint. Maybe you could try it with yours too.

It sounds dumb but it works, take a can of WD-40 with the tube lightly round the edge of the sticker, than take a scraper with cut edges, if you don't have scraper, I have found that the back of a key works well. Take the key/scraper and gently with the middle scrape a small piece off than repeat the process until the sticker is completely removed the use of WD-40 prevents any recognisable adhesive, please keep in Mind that a travel sized can is recommended

I let my bike bake in the sun before doing sticker removal. It's the metal you need to heat to soften the adhesive. Mine came off very easily since the bike was older and any seal coat had long faded. Once the stickers peeled away I wiped the area with a cloth dampened with alcohol. The same product available from a pharmacy. This is safe for skin and will not damage paint but WILL remove adhesive.

A lot of the time they can be removed and are just sticker decals. The only exception of not being able to remove a sticker decal with heat or goo gone, is if the bike manufacturer clear coated over the decal. If they clear coat over the sticker it's a lot harder to deal with. And I'm not sure how you would dissolve the clear coat without messing up the paint.

Hi everyone. It's Alanna from sixthreezero. Today we are going to show you how to make a custom decal for your bike using the Cricut. So if you watched our last decal video, we showed you how you can remove a decal and then apply your own custom decal. This time we're going to show you how to design and print your own decal using the Cricut. And we're going to do this for our decal winner, Michelle.

We've already coordinated a design with her, so we'll show you how we're going to print it out, apply it. And she has an Around the Block, so we're going to use this Around the Block to figure out the dimensions.

The first thing you want to do is measure the top tube to make sure the decal isn't too small or too large. So the main decal that we are printing today is going to go on the top tube here, and we want to make sure it doesn't wrap around too much so that you can still read it and see it clearly from the side.

So I'm going to start just by measuring here. And it's about an inch of visibility here from the side, but just to be safe we'll probably make the decal three-quarters of an inch. And the length doesn't really matter, we'll just make sure that it matches up to the height. And you could go all the way across, but if you're just keeping it straight, we'll probably keep it around eight to nine inches.

Okay. So before we get started, a few things you'll need are the Cricut Maker, or any of the Cricuts, actually, with the cutting blade. Vinyl, we have white vinyl. Transfer paper, grip mat. This thing that cuts straight lines, I'm not sure what it's called. And then I'm using these Cricut tools that just make it easier to get the vinyl cleared of all the excess that you won't be needing. And of course your laptop or whatever device you're using to create the design with and print it out.

So, here I have Michelle's design, Chelle's cruiser with the turtles and the flowers. And now we're going to import this into the Cricut Design Space. So you go open up the Cricut Design Space, upload your image here. I'll select complex, just because it gets a little detailed around the flowers. And here's a preview.

I saved it without a white background, but if it has a white background, you can just click anywhere that you don't want white background or any color background, and then continue. You want to select save as cut image. And then select it. You can see I tested it out a few times. Insert. And here it is.

So it's pretty big. We are going to change the dimensions to 0.75 inches tall. And you can see that it comes out to about seven and a half inches long. So that's perfect because we wanted to keep it under eight inches, so you don't have to curve it with the tube. So this will be our tube decal. And we also wanted to do some extra decals of just the flower and turtle design for the Kroozie cup holder. So I saved that as well as a separate design. Same process, continue. There it is. And insert it.

For this, two by two inches is perfect for the Kroozie cup holder. So this is about two by two and a half, let's make it a little smaller. That looks good. So let's do one of these. And maybe just one more for the chain guard. So copy paste that same design. Make this one an inch. Actually, let's flip it horizontally. We'll do two. She can put these wherever.

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