I tend to de-sticker a lot of my bikes and bits…
last weekend, me and riding buddy pulled up to the tea van and there were three kids in the Queue, over-heard one of them say ‘look, that guys got the same forks as me, cool!’ (which made me immediately vow to remove the stickers) and his mate said ‘what bike is it?’ and the only thing he could come up with was ‘the bright orange one’
I like the fact that every little 14year old MBUK grommet in the woods looks at my bike and can’t tell what it is, kinda re-inforces the point that it shouldn’t matter if im on an ’09 super-pro-team-sl-uber-bouncer or a ‘huh?’
removes a lot of the gear snobbery when the gear isn’t easily identifiable…