Wheel Sticker Ideas

I built a fairly cheap TT/Tri bike recently, with the frame and wheels coming unbranded from China. It might not be the fanciest, lightest or flashest bike around by a long way, but it seems to be pretty quick, certainly quicker than I could do justice to!

I do however feel that it’s looking a little bare, and want to add something to liven it up a little. I did want to add McDangerous, my nickname to the wheels, but it didn’t really work due to the lenght – it would wrap almost 180 degrees around the rim.

My most recent thought is an abbreviation from The Rules[/url], as my rather rough picture below crudely illustrates.

The bike in question is this

Any thoughts/ideas/criticism appreciated!

Cheers, Rich

That front QR isn’t parallel with the ground. Don’t let Realman see this….
As for your stickers, I’d go for unicorns. They look ace.

I think my QR’s are fairly parallel, and the angle of the photograph is capturing more the fact that they point in a bit, maybe!

Cheers, Rich

I like the ones you’ve made

I dunno, get a spirit level on them. I’m a stickler for the rules me!
The stickers looks pretty good. I think the bike looks like a bit of a weapon all black though.

How about STFU

Where S = Spew

If you are doing the pointy hat thing ,that should be your final target.

How about a version of the hypnotic spiral?

MY OTHER BIKE IS AN APPOLO

Get some latin on there. How about “Mustela putorius furo”

🙂

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As for your stickers, I’d go for unicorns. They look ace.

I’d go for a Liger, they’re mythical creatures!

Something on the lines of what Rusty said, that gives a freaky illusion when you’re at full gas. No-one will be able to read HTFU when you go past in a blur 😉

Hmm…loving some of the ideas there guys 🙂

Unfortunately the hypno spiral would work best on a disc, and I’ve been cheap and just gone for 80mm deep rims.

Maybe some more thought on a crazy pattern is required.

The alternative is of course to always ride slowly so that people can read my wheel lettering, although that may somewhat defeat the purpose 😀

Cheers, Rich

RINGFENCE THE UNICORN!

Just get some lightning bolts, or an arrow or something maybe?

Ligers are real Ladders 🙂

Ligers are real Ladders

Sorry, meant mythical powers, or somethink!

Where would you be getting these stickers made? Quite fancy something custom myself.

A friend of mine started a small business doing vinyl cutting, has done some very nice looking stuff to date.

UberSticky[/url] is the place, Johnny is into trials and MTB and an all-round nice bloke.

Cheers, Rich

Update time:

Had my stickers made, although they’re a touch smaller than I intended, I think they look quite good 🙂

The Bike

The Sticker

Cheers, Rich

QR Still doesnt look parallel 😉

That bike looks bonkers!
Good, but bonkers!

DrP

<goes to inspect bike>

to be fair, the QR is probably less than 5 degrees off horizontal, but certainly appears more so in that photo 🙂

I actually got the stickers done by Spiral GFX, very professional service and super-quick turn around too. Decent value I thought as well.

Cheers, Rich