motor bike STICKERS
 

Do they make you go faster ?
Do they make your bike look better ?
Do they add value to it ?

Most of us try to customise our bikes.
but ....... some stickers just look awful !
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Years ago I owned a Ford Puma. it was bright red, and the previous owner had put thick white rally stripes across the bodywork. And yes, they added 15 horsepower.

Currently I have a set of panniers with travel and other stickers on them, going two bikes back. They don't fit my current bike's rack, but I am keeping them for the future, and for sentimental reasons.

So: Yes they do, yes they do, and yes they do. Let people enjoy things.

Its well know in Ducati circles an AGIP sticker adds around 4HP whilst a Magneti Marelli adds at least 6HP.

Surely you knew this?

Mezo.

Can also cover up a multitude of sins........

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 only put them on bikes that are not going anywhere :rofl:

By that I mean bikes that I'm going to keep for a while. There's very little point in plastering stickers over a here today /gone tomorrow bike. They detract from the value and you don't have the stickers when you sell it. So they go mainly on panniers, top boxes, windscreens etc; stuff that can get moved around and reused. That's one of the unmentioned downsides of soft luggage - stickers don't stick.

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

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 :rofl: -

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Stikerz!
 

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!

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

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 beer with.

and they did help tremendously getting through sand !
Call me for that beer !!:rofl: it will have to be an long distance one!

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 :rofl:

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.

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...

:thumbdown:

Dirt will do that sir
 

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 :smiliex:)

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

30+ years ago when overlanding we put a load of stickers on our panniers before leaving, really just to decorate/break-up the vast areas of grey aluminium; once out of Europe we realised these were beginning to disappear as wherever we went the kids were 'stealing' them.
Sent a letter back to a friend in the UK who asked around the motorbike clubs/rallies (we all have a drawer somewhere with a few or more in don't we) and Dave collected and sent me a package of 100s of them out to India. Thereafter we gave quite a few away, but for the most part we continued to stick them on the panniers - being careful to always leave one edge unstuck, so they'd lift off without tearing - as the kids seemed to enjoy them more if they could 'steal' them off the bike.

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.

Love my stickers, and signatures from friends I’ve made along the way