stickers on your bike – "taboo" or "to do" ?

Having recently done a custom build, I have a load of stickers that came with the parts.

This is not a thread about asking if I should put them on my bike (shudders invoulantry) but rather an observation on whether people would.

Bikes look daft with stickers, helmets can look good. If you do it right.

I tend to take them off rather than put them on

Saying that, I do have a 'Charlie the Bike Monger' sticker on a seat-stay where my heel rubs

I wouldn't. The components already have their names on, they don't need them duplicated on the downtube or wherever
I stick bike related stickers on my toolbox

Stickers are good for covering up scratches. Keep them until your bike gets a bit battered.

Bikes look daft with stickers, helmets can look good.
other way round. FACT.

edit: oh, the stickers that came with the parts? bin/toolbox.

"helmets can look good. If you do it right"
Dirt Jump and Full face helmets perhaps, but XC or road helmets?

I remove all the stickers already on the bike / components includeing all the naff graphics. Plain looks so much better

Stickers are for tool boxes!!

.. or laptops.

See all those kids in 106s and saxos with stikers down their doors….. That is the car equivalent of what you are talking about.

NO………………………. IMHO

Stickers are for a) toolbox b)laptop c)kids or d)bin

Stickers are for tool boxes!

+1

Mine go in an album.
I'm on my fourth now.

tool/race kit boxes/bins only imo too

All depends on the stickers – I prefer stuff thats not bike related.
Quite like running long a thin stickers down the inside of the fork stantion like the aka one below.

non-bike-related stickers = OK.
just put this one on mine

On my main bikes, no. On my hack bike, yes. Infact, it's covered in them as a half arsed deterrent for thieves as it makes the bike very identifiable or they at least have to spend an hour taking them all off.

we had a van for such things, then we sold it 😥

don't mind a couple of carefully placed small stickers, small mavic ones work well on chain/seat stays and i have a Liteoptions one on my race bike cos i use liteoptions lights 🙂

I stick em on the fridge, the wife is yet to moan, but she will..

Stickers are for toolboxes.
The only exception is my Sustrans Volunteer Ranger sticker on my frame.

Immy loves stickers! 😀

Stickers are for fiddlers.

Charlie stickers ftw!

stickers on bikes are a bit like bum love ….. some do it and some don't

i have the tasteful korn poledancer on my downtube

my old hex helmet used to look good with its random array of stickers. really gutted that i left it on the train bound for Rome.

my favourite one said "Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof"

You're all kidding of course, you must be! Why don't you do what you want?

Why don't you do what you want?

Crazy talk.
Where would it end?

There's only one sticker I ever used on bike or helmet.

Way back when, from MBUK, there came some Mint Sauce stickers. I stuck one of them on the back of my helmet. It was a very small, text only sticker which just said "This is why"

Wish I could get another….!

Stickers are for tool boxes!
+1

I like stickers. I'd only put a sticker on my bike if I owned a part/kit made by that company.

Bike coponent stickers should be put in the bin, well uncool.

I'd like to remove all the stickers on my bike but for some reason Cotic decided it would be a class idea to laquer over them. Its awful

Only one sticker you ever need:

TF Tuned kindly put a sticker on my fork when they serviced it. It reads "TF Tuned".

With the amount of decals on my new frame, there's no room left for stickers!

Personally, can't see the point of putting brand name stickers on your bike unless you are sponsored by them. Good luck if you want to though as i don't care really. 🙂 I quite like bikes to look clean and uncluttered, although my BMC is far from that and would probably look rubbish naked. LBS stickers are good if you want to support them and advertise for them to keep them going.

Quite like a random sticker or two on a helmet and non bike stickers on bikes. My surfboards tended to have bike and band stickers on.

I'm not sure if it's the same for cycle helmets, but it used to be advised that putting stickers on motorcycle helmets degraded the shell and made them less effective….

I miss my "One Really Nice Speed" Sticker

Tool box!

/echo

TF Tuned kindly put a sticker on my fork when they serviced it. It reads "TF Tuned".

did TF Tuned really do that? or did you put it on yourself?

My forks and shock have been to them a few times and always come back from them with a nice set of stickers in the box, so it's up to me whether I apply them (I choose to, but only to cover the worst scrapes :oops:)