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**mark manley** · #1 14 Jun 2021

I read somewhere that having an ADVRIDER sticker on your bike gets you visa free entry to some countries but cannot confirm this as I have never seen one outside of the US.

**badou24** · #2 16 Jun 2021

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Originally Posted by mark manley

I read somewhere that having an ADVRIDER sticker on your bike gets you visa free entry to some countries but cannot confirm this as I have never seen one outside of the US.

That sticker gets you entry into .....
England
scotland
wales

**backofbeyond** · #3 17 Jun 2021

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Originally Posted by mark manley

I read somewhere that having an ADVRIDER sticker on your bike gets you visa free entry to some countries but cannot confirm this as I have never seen one outside of the US.

I've never seen one even in the US. Must be the company I keep. Ian Coates might have one on his bike somewhere but who would know

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**BriTigeRider** · #4 3 Aug 2021

What does it matter if some people like to put stickers on their bikes to show where they've been, & why would anyone be so naïve to think it adds value to a bike??
Personally l DO put stickers on my bike & will continue to do so even if a small amount of people (who may be 'bikers) think it's unattractive!

**markharf** · #5 4 Aug 2021

I believe you may have misjudged the tone of certain posters. No one is seriously suggesting that stickers add value, make you go faster, or vault you to the front of the queue at borders. Neither is anyone seriously criticizing those who put stickers on their bikes (or those be-stickered bikes themselves).

Hope that's helpful.

Mark

**motoreiter** · #6 4 Aug 2021

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Originally Posted by mark manley

I read somewhere that having an ADVRIDER sticker on your bike gets you visa free entry to some countries but cannot confirm this as I have never seen one outside of the US.

I saw one on a GS at my hotel on the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria; actually left the guy (gal?) a note but didn't hear back.

Generally I think that stickers add a little personality to a bike, although generally I only put them on panniers, etc. Depending on the stickers they can also add a little cred and potentially indicate someone I'd like to have a

with.

**Toyark** · #7 20 Aug 2021

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Originally Posted by motoreiter

they can also add a little cred and potentially indicate someone I'd like to have a

with.

and they did help tremendously getting through sand !
Call me for that

!!

it will have to be an long distance one!

**backofbeyond** · #8 20 Aug 2021

At least you can stick those country stickers on. When I first started bike travelling we had to use letraset to put stuff on panniers and draw out the flags. I never did go to Liechtenstein as it took too long to write it out

All you could get in the way of stickers were those car window pennants and they only covered over 60's hangouts like Bognor or Bournmouth.

**motoreiter** · #9 20 Aug 2021

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Originally Posted by Toyark

and they did help tremendously getting through sand !
Call me for that

!!

it will have to be an long distance one!

Good idea to put your air pump on your pannier lid; when I was on the road of bones I didn't do that and my air pump got some dust in it and stopped working...

**Toyark** · #10 21 Aug 2021

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes!
I learned on that trip not to use hard cases ever again and to switch to Magadans but I do confess that the lid was useful for a host of things. (like stickers really are quite naf!! but if it floats your bike....stick-on

)

As always, Youth is wasted on the young... and... Wisdom on the old!
Life's a

**gbags** · #11 31 Aug 2021

For years I never put stickers up but I’ve started putting them on for really serious, far flung countries that I’m pretty pleased to have got to. These only go on the panniers though.

Two exceptions. In America I put a GB on the back as Yanks are very friendly and generally like Brits. And in Latin America, heading north, I put a Union Jack flag on the screen to say I’m a Brit. People saw it and were quite pleased and chatty as they generally assume all gringos are Yanks.