Support Symbols or Stickers for your bike?

[pyxichick]

My BF keeps telling me to find a cool sticker to put on my top tube to cover the dent. The only problem is that it's in a really dumb-looking spot, right in the middle of the graphic, so a sticker just stuck on there would look kind of silly. However, if I found the right thing, I might go for it...

I've always wondered why more bikes don't have stickers. It's fun to personalize! There's one that I've seen that I like that's made just for bikes that says "One f*cking speed."

[7rider]

<rant warning> Personally, I don't understand the whole "10//2" thing. Yeah, it's a big date for Lance and all, and it's great that he's done so well. But, sheesh....it's not like a big date for me...so why would I wear something so Lance-centric. I checked out that weblink that explained the graphics on the wheel...."Lance this...Lance that." Good grief. Do I really care that you could only stomach apple fritters, Lance?? And why on earth would you want to memorialize that with a sticker on your wheel??

That said....
This place provides custom hardware for your bike:
http://www.purelycustom.com/bicycle_products.html
I've never used them, I wanted to order a "Hare racing" headset cap for my bike (I like bunnies), but the no longer make a 1" cover, as all are 1.125" (my frame is a '99 and has the older headset). They look like they have fun stuff. Anyone used them?
Also....for those with unpainted ti frames....a Sharpie can be used to custom graffiti your frame, and it cleans off easily with rubbing alcohol. So I've been told and witnessed at any rate....
Regina

[KnottedYet]

Hey, I could leave my tri number sticker on my bike. I've seen folks do that. (ummm, I kinda thought it was tacky... but now that I might be getting one next week I'm starting to think it could be cool)

Depends on how cool the number is.

Pyxi- How about one of those little band-aid stickers they sell in motorcycle shops? You could put that on your top-tube dent. Some have phrases on them, too.

(I had a bandaid sticker that said "Stupid Hurts" across it, and loved it! Stuck it to my car.)

[velogirl]

http://www.headbadges.com/id74.html

Custom headbadges.....yum!

[Bikingmomof3]

Okay, if I do not ask, I will never know-where does a headbadge go?

[velogirl]

Okay, if I do not ask, I will never know-where does a headbadge go?

On the headtube -- that's the tube on the front of the bike that connects the top tube and the down tube.

Headbadges used to be art. We've got a box of beautiful ones at the bike shop where I work that were removed from retired bikes. Now most are made of plastic or aluminum. Rivendell still has pretty headbadges as do some custom builders.

[SadieKate]

http://www.headbadges.com/id74.html

Custom headbadges.....yum!

I should never have opened this thread. Think of an AV badge on the seat tube right under the top tube.

Thanks a whole bunch. Where's the golden goose?

[Lise]

<This place provides custom hardware for your bike:
http://www.purelycustom.com/bicycle_products.html

Oh man....now I want custom valve covers and cage screws! Seriously! At $2.49 each...cheap toys! And the name sticker is ~ $6! Maybe I'll get them all for myself as a reward for finishing the Pleasant Prairie tri.

[Bad JuJu]

I used to have this enameled badge on the head tube of my Terry Symmetry.
Pain in the Lane
It's probably still there, but the bike is somewhere at the bottom of a bay, thanks to Hurricane Ivan. *sniff*

[Geonz]

Well, I have a couple of stickers on my commuter - "bicycling is not a crime," and a Mammals (band) "Trad is Rad" sticker covering up the ding on the top tube. I often think of slogans but haven't figured out the logistics to make somethign visible that isn't a major wind block.
The abandoned bike on the rack here has a "Bicycling a quiet statement Against Oil Wars" plastic sign dangling from the top tube.
I've thought of a few - but there's a whole mess of 'em at http://viki.gedris.org/index.php/Slo...or_Bike_Shirts
I have also bought the paint... a year ago... to add bovinity to my now all-black Schwinn one-speed with the big baskets in the back, so that it's an utter mockery of fancy ones like the photo... with "vaca con cuernos" as the "custom" name, which my Colombian student tells me is what they call those all-purpose "milk cows with horns" where he's from.

[SadieKate]

Geonz, that Waterford is abandoned? It's one of the Team Dairyland bikes! I want one. Petunia wants one. Who doesn't want a bike with an udderly pink bottom bracket. Can I come collect it for the city? A little cleanup work?

[possum]

Geonz, that Waterford is abandoned? It's one of the Team Dairyland bikes! I want one. Petunia wants one. Who doesn't want a bike with an udderly pink bottom bracket. Can I come collect it for the city? A little cleanup work?

There are a few team bikes for sale still! That one, the old one, is too small for me or it would be MINE, and the new ones (which are Cannondale) have beautiful farm landscapes pained on them. go here:
http://www.teamamericasdairyland.com/

[latelatebloomer]

Lise, the "duty to ride" sticker was a li'l present from my LBS. So ask next time you're at a shop that sells Giant. It'd be cool if they had a girl saying same, but...it might be pink. LLB doesn't do pink.

The Syracuse Cultural Workers catalog sells a T-shirt (& possibly stickers and cards) that I desire - white w/a yellow caution sign w/ bike on back. Sez "We're not blocking traffic. We ARE traffic."

[Tri Girl]

Since my bike is a boy bike (well, the gender and the color- dark blue), I have put some flower decals on it, just to girly it up a bit. When I finish my IM, I'm going to put a 140.6 sticker on it (the distance of an IM). That might be it, but who knows? I like to personalize my ride, and since it's unlikely I'll get rid of him, he'll be my very own creation. I never put bumper stickers on my car, but on my bike, that's a different story.

I like the link to all the bike jewelry. Cool!

[Lise]

When I finish my IM, I'm going to put a 140.6 sticker on it (the distance of an IM).

Yeah, I think that's appropriate!