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Properly done stickers?

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Krazed

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As we all know, I have lots of stickers on my R6.. I think it looks good, but others have brought their opinions to light in the past.

What do you guys think?

Personally, if done right, I think they look pretty good.




To add... Having a pub sticker on my bike has gotten me some decent treatment quite recently.

Parked right out in front of the pub, on a busy main street..
Bouncer was going off on how amazing the Husaberg 570FE was, and how he had the smaller version and loved it.
He let me in, with out a photo Identification.. We know the owners and the managers, so its not like I wouldnt have got in anyways.

Also, he told us he would watch over our bikes.. and if anyone touched them, they would be flat on their backsides haha.

Another guy that works there, well he noticed the sticker and right away had to come introduce himself and give us a round of shots on the house.

Cant complain personally :)
 
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Assuming you mean advertising stickers then I generally don't like them.
I have to really believe in a product before I'm going to advertise it for them.
I'm not even a fan of vehicles having the manufacturer's name on them :)
Something like DID, Pirelli, NGK, HJC or Akrapovic I wouldn't have a problem with.
I wouldn't even consider advertising a pub or alcohol though.
 
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It makes the bike look like it is beeing sponsored for race, but everyone knows it isn't so what does it tell us about the rider... :D unless it's a replica then it's worst:rotfl: it does look good
 
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Krazed said:
As we all know, I have lots of stickers on my R6.. I think it looks good, but others have brought their opinions to light in the past.

What do you guys think?

Personally, if done right, I think they look pretty good.




To add... Having a pub sticker on my bike has gotten me some decent treatment quite recently.

Parked right out in front of the pub, on a busy main street..
Bouncer was going off on how amazing the Husaberg 570FE was, and how he had the smaller version and loved it.
He let me in, with out a photo Identification.. We know the owners and the managers, so its not like I wouldnt have got in anyways.

Also, he told us he would watch over our bikes.. and if anyone touched them, they would be flat on their backsides haha.

Another guy that works there, well he noticed the sticker and right away had to come introduce himself and give us a round of shots on the house.

Cant complain personally :)
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As far as I can tell You still haven't got the two most important ones though Krazed.

The ones that say Honda and Fireblade :stirpot:
 
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Insomniax2 said:
Well, as I ride a Repsol 'blade, I cant say anything!

If it's race rep, then it can look great (No bias there) but if they're just random stickers someone got free with a mag, then no, they look stupid.
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I have to agree here. I'm not against stickers by any means, but you have to display them tactfully (and almost sparingly), otherwise you run the risk of looking like a poser.
I would actually like to remove the graphics from my 954 and paint the bike blue, with only the Honda winged logos on the tank.
 
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Depends on the stickers. I'm a believer of a race bike replica (exact), or nothing. Just a few random stickers doesn't do anything for me.
 
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Sportbike_Mike said:
Go to the Review My Ride forum, and look at the 'My one off custom 900rr' thread. That bike is stickered up nicely (and sparingly) IMO.
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Just did. You're right. My one off custom 900rr
But Mays7 did way more than just stickers. He planned it all out with a new paint scheme too.
Can't speak for Krazed, but I think his question was pertaining to just adding stickers to your factory plastics.
I like it when an aftermarket product has their logo or whatever on the product. Like Puig on a hugger, or AFAM on the sprocket. But I don't like to add extra stickers to the fairings. I would make an exception and put Ohlins on my swingarm if I had one.
 
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As much as I agree aout advertising BR.. The bike was raced by a manager of the pub, and usually get lots of free stuff from there anyways.

My bike was actually raced, not by myself.. It will one day get on the track with me at the reins.

Surprisingly, my bike does not have an akropovic sticker.. Not even aware they have any? It has all the rest though... The only parts sticker that is on there, that I dont have the part.. Is the renthal stickers. Looking into buying new sprockets this winter anyways, as much as I do not mind the stock gearing.. Want to try -1 +2 and see how that goes.
 
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To elaborate on what I was tlaking about above, if you overdo it with stickers and graphics on a bike, it IMO is pretty much the motorcycle equivalent of this:


You're most likely not going to get respect by slapping stickers and graphics all over a car like that, you are going to get clowned, particularly by folks who are smart enough to tune actual performance car platforms (i.e. RWD and AWD, but that's another story altogether).
 
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e.glazebrook said:
My cousins bike I spent a Summer riding a few years back...


He loved it! But I thought it was feckin' retarded! To each their own...
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I wouldn't say it's retarded, but it is a bit excessive (at least for my taste). Though I don't think it's on the distasteful level; they aren't just haphazardly applied.
If he would've kept the stickers off the aluminum part of the frame, the swing-arm, and the front & back fenders, it would look much better.
 
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Ok, I am likely going to take it on the chin for this but oh well. From the posts I have read from Krazed this is what I gather, he has ridden for quite some time without having a licence and the proper credentials but doesn't get ticketed by the police because they said he is such a great rider, recently he states that he heard the motorcycle course was garbage so he didn't take it---but got his licence anyway, and now he parks in front of a bar and gets a free shot of booze for having the bar logo on the bike that is parked out front of said establishment and if I were to hazard a guess he had more than one drink---and as a new driver you aren't supposed to have any alcohol I believe, either way that is a bad way to start.

And my insurance is so high why???? hmm----and cost aside you appear to be sending the wrong message imho
 
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dicedreams2000 said:
Personally, I love stickers, but I got the parts that the stickers represent :-D

http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/ac7/dicedreams/Finished cbr954rr Project/DSC02458.jpg

http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/ac7/dicedreams/Finished cbr954rr Project/DSC02462.jpg

http://i880.photobucket.com/albums/ac7/dicedreams/Finished cbr954rr Project/DSC02467.jpg
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I can't say I dislike that scheme one bit. You've made that look like an actual race bike.
That being said, what is the silver bottle just above your exhaust?
Where did you get the 'cap' to replace the back seat?
And concerning the dash, is that on the left an LCD for a rearward facing camera, if so, does it record or just 'view'?
 
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