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PostPosted: 02:57 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: sticker's peeling... Reply with quote
After an over enthusiastic jet wash blasting the lower sticker on my LSM is peeling on one corner. The pure g forces over 30mph are slowly peeling the sticker off. It being a chinky bike I don't want to allow it to look tatty so I intended to peal the thing off.

I can't decide if I should remove the whole sticker set or just the lower half of it. Just wanted a few extra opinions on what'd look best.

On my phone and it won't let me post a proper picture, but Google gave me one. The sticker is cut in half along the bend in the fairing. My handlebars are red renthlals.

Remove just the lower (peeling) half, all of it, or leave it looking tatty.
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PostPosted: 03:53 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Id remove it all looks a bit obscure and out of place as it is in my opinion Confused

Mucoff intensive tar remover from halfords will help clean up the fairing if youre left with sticky gunk also Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 07:52 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
aye, rip em off.

if you get residue sticky crap spray some gt85 on it, will come off an smell sweet
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PostPosted: 08:50 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
mudcow007 wrote:
aye, rip em off.

if you get residue sticky crap spray some gt85 on it, will come off an smell sweet


Brake cleaner is the shizzle too. Removes everything.
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PostPosted: 09:32 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Slacker24seven wrote:
Brake cleaner is the shizzle too. Removes everything.


Not quite 'everything'... Wink
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PostPosted: 09:39 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Doovy wrote:
Slacker24seven wrote:
Brake cleaner is the shizzle too. Removes everything.


Not quite 'everything'... Wink


No you need brake fluid for that.
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PostPosted: 16:30 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Warming the sticker up a little with a hot air gun works a treat.

Any uber stubborn residues will come off with Friars Balsam.
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PostPosted: 16:42 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sadly my old KTM had the same issue... What I did was scrap off all the glue, which was covered in dirt and dead flies then just apply really thin double sided sticky tape that I got from ebay. Worked a treat.

KTM said to me I had obviously jet washed the bike, funny because I don't own a fecking jet wash.
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PostPosted: 18:04 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
WD40 will take the sticky residue off without harming the paint or plastic.
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PostPosted: 18:31 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Slacker24seven wrote:
mudcow007 wrote:
aye, rip em off.

if you get residue sticky crap spray some gt85 on it, will come off an smell sweet


Brake cleaner is the shizzle too. Removes everything.

Damages rubber hoses too.

Who cares, getting a few extra opinions? Really?
Obviously that sticker's going to come off, fuck me I wish I could worry about something that meaningless
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PostPosted: 22:15 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Waits for 'how to dispose of sticker safely' thread.
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PostPosted: 22:19 - 10 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
So, once the sticker is off should I recycle it? Wink
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PostPosted: 00:33 - 11 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Irn-Bru wrote:
Sadly my old KTM had the same issue... What I did was scrap off all the glue, which was covered in dirt and dead flies then just apply really thin double sided sticky tape that I got from ebay. Worked a treat.

KTM said to me I had obviously jet washed the bike, funny because I don't own a fecking jet wash.


KTM are dum coughs.
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PostPosted: 11:21 - 11 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
The stickers on my old KTM 625 peeled off after a couple months, I removed them but bought a new set that I stuck on when it came time to sell it. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 12:38 - 11 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sako wrote:
The stickers on my old KTM 625 peeled off after a couple months, I removed them but bought a new set that I stuck on when it came time to sell it. Thumbs Up


Purists may say that is fraud...
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PostPosted: 14:18 - 11 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
I see no fairing on that bike.
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