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  • opinions please (bike aesthetics) – rim labels on or off?
  • organic355
    Free Member

    After someone saying my new flux build was a bit logotastic, and after often thnking myself the american classic wheels could do with toning down a bit, can you offer your opinions? on the front wheel I have covered with electrical tape to see what it looks like before i get the hair dryer to the labels and peel them off.

    I still cant decide, and I actually thnk it might be the nobby nic logos that actually annoy me and not the rim logos

    so Gok Wans of STW, logos or no logos? opinions please?

    And yes I know….

    who cares, just get it built and ride the damn thing

    Stop being such a hairdresser

    responses are fully expected

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    tape over the tyre logos at the back and post another pic?

    [edit] I can’t believe you put little bits of paper under your workstand to protect the garage floor!

    tracknicko
    Free Member

    too much time on hands.

    ojom
    Free Member

    Fancy coming to Edinburgh and sorting my garage out…

    organic355
    Free Member

    [edit] I can’t believe you put little bits of paper under your workstand to protect the garage floor!

    garage floor paint is crap, you just need to look at it and it chips!, theres 3 bare patches underneath each of those feet, just stopping it getting any worse. 🙂

    ojom
    Free Member

    Like i said. Get on a train…

    rogerthecat
    Free Member

    Take them off, it’s all weight in the wrong place, think of the inertia! 😀

    Whathaveisaidnow
    Free Member

    You got wood . . .

    i say with…

    theendisnigh
    Free Member

    The rims might look like cheap shiite without logos.
    Strut with logos like a peacock with a lob on.

    Cheezpleez
    Full Member

    Loving how you’ve filed your kindling 😉

    Anyway, logos gotta go

    sefton
    Free Member

    I can’t believe you put little bits of paper under your workstand to protect the garage floor!

    …..dude 😐

    hey whats the poster on the garage door? eairly 90’s rave flyer?

    jota180
    Free Member

    A tidy shed/workshop is the sign of an inactive mind

    Rusty-Shackleford
    Free Member

    the american classic wheels could do with toning down a bit…before i get the hair dryer to the labels and peel them off.

    I’m not a fan of rim stickers (less-is-more) and pulled the stickers off my flows…bought a pair of American Classic tubeless (dem below) with the intention of doing the same, but it looks to me like they’re under a layer of lacquer. I could be wrong, though. Are you sure they’re peel-able? Mind you, all that said, now they’re on they look pretty good, I have to say! Probably only works cos of the white frame. I also have Nobby Nics on mine and there’s no way to get the tyre and wheel logos aligned, so it’s a bit of a dogs dinner in that respect.

    edit: and plastering their brand name all over the hubs is a chuffing DISGRACE! 😀

    Irish_AL
    Free Member

    do you have a sticker with your name on it? if not nowt wrong with it 😀

    sefton
    Free Member

    I’m amazed there isn’t one little splinter from all that wood on the floor!

    organic355
    Free Member

    hey whats the poster on the garage door? eairly 90’s rave flyer?

    ive been trying to work out how you could mistake a rag with my front mech, pedals, chain in a bowl, screwdriver and allen key on it for a poster but then i realised you said door and not floor. its just some instructions for the door or something, like a door needs instructions. but funnily enough i do have loads of 90s rave flyers in the loft, perhaps i should decorate my garage door? whistle possee anyone?

    organic355
    Free Member

    I’m amazed there isn’t one little splinter from all that wood on the floor!

    all the splinters, saw dust etc gets wrapped up into little newspaper packages like fish and chips and stuck on the fire, they burn pretty well and last longer than you would think.

    I am going to stop posting pictures of my bike in my garage, it causes too much distraction!! 😀

    EDIT: i dont stick fish and chips on the fire.

    chakaping
    Free Member

    Why do you need two hand axes?

    *suspicious*

    I’d get rid of all the red ano rather than the wheel stickers, if you want a more low-key looking bike.

    nedrapier
    Full Member

    I say off.

    Going to do the same with Arch EX stickers

    sefton
    Free Member

    boy I bet you’ve changed since your rave days 🙄 😆

    the bikes cool mate! should have got a raw one though 😛

    BrickMan
    Full Member

    Road/Track? Labels off
    MTB/anything else? Labels on

    That is the rule.

    Rusty-Shackleford
    Free Member

    BrickMan – Member

    Road/Track? Labels off
    MTB/anything else? Labels on

    That is the rule.BALLS, man! Why would anyone keep this on…for the love of God, why?

    It just looks shit. End of.

    passtherizla
    Free Member

    dinged up all of the labels on my crossrides… so the labels had to go. better none than shabby ones.

    BrickMan
    Full Member

    yeah fair enough, THOSE are garish as hell.

    All mine are older mavic rims (and a synchros which is a bit more labelly) and they only have little labels.

    nicko74
    Full Member

    Having explored the idea of pulling the labels off some Crest rims, I came to the conclusion that they’re integral to the strength of NoTubes rims. I’d keep ’em on, they seem to hold the join in place

    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    Standards are slipping, your ironing board doesn’t have paper under it ?!?!

    cheers_drive
    Full Member

    I’d take most of the stickers off, just leaving one set of logos which you can then line the tyre up with.

    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    BrickMan – Member
    Road/Track? Labels off
    MTB/anything else? Labels on

    That is the rule.

    No it’s not, track needs the stickers on expecialy if they’re njs certified rims.

    randomjeremy
    Free Member

    op what the hell is wrong with you

    organic355
    Free Member

    🙄

    nothing thanks I am fine, whats wrong with you?

    GW
    Free Member

    Remove decals and drill valve holes for proper tubes

    GW
    Free Member

    Oh.. and ditch the workstand and turn the bike upside down for maintenance.

    KINGTUT
    Free Member

    randomjeremy – Member

    op what the hell is wrong with you
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    organic355 – Member

    nothing thanks I am fine, whats wrong with you?

    I think he may be trying to say you appear to put the A in anal.

    organic355
    Free Member

    just jealous of my tidy garage huh? You should see the other side of it 😆

    umop3pisdn
    Free Member

    You’ve either got to go full on lairy or subtle, no half measures.

    BrickMan
    Full Member

    No it’s not, track needs the stickers on expecialy if they’re njs certified rims

    NJS is always stamped isn’t it? Never seen an NJS sticker before, and would feel it was a bit suspect no?

    xcgb
    Free Member

    Kindling really needs a tidy its all over the place, lots of neatening up needed!

    patriotpro
    Free Member

    OP – Whatever you think is the right thing, just do that.

    For what it’s worth, if you have a decent set of wheels, why not tell folk…I leave em on.

    davidtaylforth
    Free Member

    For what it’s worth, if you have a decent set of wheels, why not tell folk

    Because they’ll probably find you boring.

    patriotpro
    Free Member

    davidtaylforth – Member
    For what it’s worth, if you have a decent set of wheels, why not tell folk
    Because they’ll probably find you boring.

    I meant by leaving the stickers on (the way they were meant to be)…

    But you knew that anyway. 😉

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