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  • Bizarre happening with my decals while cleaning my bike
  • ken_shields
    Free Member

    Cleaning my bike after todays ride and the black printing on the decals on my down tube came off revealing white decals underneath….genuine Turner decals as well

    From this

    to this

    looks better thank goodness

    nosherduke996
    Free Member

    Even the frame changed colour !

    ojom
    Free Member

    Looks good.

    Weird though…

    druidh
    Free Member

    It's possible that the decal is actually white plastic with a black print on top. It looks like you've just stripped off the print.

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    looks better, but those rims 😯

    Rivett
    Free Member

    and that fence!

    ken_shields
    Free Member

    nosherduke996 – better camera

    onion – clear backing with black printing 🙄

    Rivett – fence up at Woburn

    rOcKeTdOg – them is lovely rims, them is spank subrosa's

    skaifan
    Free Member

    looks like its white vinyl with black print. If the graphics have no laminate coating, most solvents and aggressive cleaners will strip the ink pretty quickly. Guess turner need to get their graphics laminated. I would email them about this outlining what you had done. I think this is a quality issue they need to be made aware of. It does look better now though.

    spooky_b329
    Full Member

    What cleaner are you using?

    PeterPoddy
    Free Member

    On a bike like that, I'd expect decals to be under the laquer…..

    JoeBones
    Free Member

    Nicxe to see a "proper" Turner!

    brant
    Free Member

    On a bike like that, I'd expect decals to be under the laquer…..

    Laquering over powdercoat?

    ken_shields
    Free Member

    As Brant said the frame has been powder coated so no to the lacquering option

    Cleaner I was using was Muck off possibly a combo of that and hot water caused the ink to lift

    SBrock
    Free Member

    Santa Cruz don't laquer over powdercoat either…… the likes of Specialized (ugh) laquer over there decals but there paint jobs are at best utter shite in comparison to powdercoating. I had a Rockhopper and paint used to come off in chunks at the first sign of contact with anything!

    coffeeking
    Free Member

    Ahhh christ my eyes, is it possible that the black ink took its final step into oblivion, blinded by the greenyness that surrounded it? 🙂

    Only kidding, looks good, especially with white.

    AndyP
    Free Member

    Cleaner I was using was Muck off
    there you have it. That'll do for your decals. And your paint. And your components.

    gravitysucks
    Free Member

    Looks good but you need white cabling now 🙂

    crazyjohnyblows
    Free Member

    i think u should paint the rear triangle black…think it would look better and make the rear wheel stand out abit more.

    doug_basqueMTB.com
    Full Member

    The white graphics look fantasic I think. Total result, I hope that they last though.

    Mrtrotter
    Free Member

    I had the same thing happen to me. Preffered the white decals anyway.

    lowey
    Full Member

    Yep, its happened to me also.

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