Ooh, a moral philosophy conundrum. This is where we get to find out what people are really like - honest and upright salt of the earth types who'll only use stickers where they and that particular bike have been together (and when the bike goes the sticker rights vanish with it) or slightly dubious "it's all about me" egoists who'll plaster anything anywhere, particularly if there's money involved. Note my value judgements in selecting those adjectives.

As I had a catholic upbringing with strict moral rectitude at the centre of the curriculum I started my travel "career" with stickers as the glue that cemented the partnership between me and the bike. We did it together. Look at what we've achieved, where we've been. Sadly though it didn't take long for my slightly dubious real character to bubble to the surface and I was seduced by longer legs, a prettier face and an easier ride. My short and squat, slightly pudgy little Honda had to go. To remember the good times though I kept the CDs in the shape of the sticker covered top box. Should I use it with the virgin queen, the new love of my life but rather innocent of the ways of the travel world? Too damn right I should, these things are expensive!

I was actually "agonising" about all of this about a year ago (but didn't think to pose a question about it here). I collected about half a dozen stickers during our USA trip in 2015 but, with one eye on resale value, didn't want to plaster them on the GoldWing. So what should I do with them. There's not much point in buying them if they're just going to sit in your wallet but I did have slight reservations about putting them on another bike. In the end though a couple of bottles of cut through millennia of "original guilt" (as they so often do) and they went on my 125 Suzuki. A year on nobody has asked me how I got the Suzuki to Yellowstone or what the hell is an OBX. Sometimes I wonder whether we just make rods for our own backs.

Divorce, my friend, divorce.

Country stickers relate not only to the bike and not only to the rider, but in the relationship between the two. Therefore, if you sell the bike, the stickers are lost. If you buy a bike with stickers, they should be removed. Anything else would be a little disingenuous, in my opinion.

Which isn't to say I don't mourn the loss of the "Пиво, сиськи, рок-н-ролл" sticker the Russian bikers put on my last bike before I spoke Russian.

Have to admit once we started to go down the flag sticker route we didn't stop there..
Restaurants, camping, hindu gods, islam, football, surfing etc and even one i found in Mali with Gadaffi and 2 AK47's.
The car has become plastered all over which we have found breaks the ice and strikes up good conversations with locals.

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I really miss my extra large 'Le vache qui Rite' sticker.

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