Name stickers on bikes

secretsam
secretsam Posts: 5,120
edited February 2017 in The cake stop
So: those little 'pro style' name stickers that you can get for your bike.

Classy or w*nky???? :twisted:
It's just a hill. Get over it.
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  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    The second one
  • VmanF3
    VmanF3 Posts: 240
    If you're a pro - the first one; if not, the second.
    Big Red, Blue, Pete, Bill & Doug
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,485
    If you are in a group with similar bikes, the first one.

    If not, the second one.

    Actually, unless you are a pro, the second one. If a group buy similar bikes then they are sheep and w*nky.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Kids love em...
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    what about if you've got a bike with someone else's name on? class? w@nky? or misguided?
    @JaunePeril

    Winner of the Bike Radar Pro Race Wiggins Hour Prediction Competition
  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    I saw one recently complete with title, 'Dr'. If the bike was a present from proud parents, or he's a team medic, etc., then fair enough. Otherwise, I'm inclined to go for option 2.
  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    I've got a bike with someone else's name on it.

    Chris Boardman's.
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Yellow Peril wrote:
    what about if you've got a bike with someone else's name on? class? w@nky? or misguided?
    Probably a thief.
  • Colinthecop
    Colinthecop Posts: 996
    I like them.... But I do have questionable taste.

    :oops:
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    Colinthecop wrote:
    I like them.... But I do have questionable taste.

    :oops:

    Same, I've even got them :)
    My London Road
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    Even worse are the ones with a national flag after their name. Height of wa*kiness.
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    dodgy wrote:
    Even worse are the ones with a national flag after their name. Height of wa*kiness.

    Phew, i'm in the clear. I've got it before the name.

    Geez, that was close.
    My London Road
  • norvernrob
    norvernrob Posts: 1,448
    I'm called Rob, but it says Scott all over my bike...



    I'll get me coat. :oops:
  • crescent
    crescent Posts: 1,201
    Sometimes it just happens by coincidence.

    Yours sincerely,
    Mr G Fondo,
    Ribble

    :oops:
    Bianchi ImpulsoBMC Teammachine SLR02 01Trek Domane AL3“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. “ ~H.G. Wells Edit - "Unless it's a BMX"
  • Sleeper Cell
    Sleeper Cell Posts: 105
    I have a sticker with 'Sleeper' on my seat post, in case somebody I'm riding next to needs to know my name (I run cycling training camps), but I think I'd be a complete **** if I had 'S Cell' and a Union Flag on my top tube.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    OK, come on, let's get off the fence on this one - are we positive or negative about these things? :twisted: :twisted:
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    MountainMonster wrote:

    Phew, i'm in the clear. I've got it before the name.

    Geez, that was close.

    Where do these things actually come from? - is there a superb UK graphics and decal maker you'd like to tell us about?
  • badgerbeaver
    badgerbeaver Posts: 102
    I like 'em.

    No embarrassing forgetting people's names on the club run.

    I don't mind if you don't have them on your bike. Each to their own.
  • infineto
    infineto Posts: 11
    my bianchi has Italian flags in most places
    Im not Italian should I get some of my national flag decals
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    RDW wrote:
    MountainMonster wrote:

    Phew, i'm in the clear. I've got it before the name.

    Geez, that was close.

    Where do these things actually come from? - is there a superb UK graphics and decal maker you'd like to tell us about?

    Could be the basis for a (long) thread.
  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    edited November 2014
    It's reminiscent of the way fighter pilots have their names inscribed on the fuselage up by the cockpit.

    However, there's an obvious difference between a fighter pilot, who can get away with such self-indulgence because he is, in fact, an actual fighter pilot, and a cyclist, who er, well, isn't.

    That said, my bike says 'Giant' on the side. How on earth did they know?
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    ChrisAOnABike wrote:
    It's reminiscent of the way fighter pilots have their names inscribed on the fuselage up by the cockpit.

    However, there's an obvious difference between a fighter pilot, who can get away with such self-indulgence because he is, in fact, an actual fighter pilot, and a cyclist, who er, well, isn't.

    :lol:
  • Dippydog3
    Dippydog3 Posts: 414
    Cyclists put names on their bikes because thats what the pros do. Not sure why they do it, but I can see the logic as it would help you to pick out your bike from all the others in the team.

    If amateurs want to do it I cannot see the harm.

    Seems a lot less vain than wearing the same outfit the pro team wear. At least they have the excuse of having no choice.
  • priory
    priory Posts: 743
    edited November 2014
    I have been sticking my name on bikes for many years, in the hope that others will and then I will not have quite so many of those '' oh, did I call you that , how stupid of me not to know your name , which is of course , errrrrrr'' moments.

    There was an extremely good looking bike in the Raleigh factory sale recently bearing a union jack and the name Briggs. I would not mind riding that one .
    Raleigh Eclipse, , Dahon Jetstream XP, Raleigh Banana, Dawes super galaxy, Raleigh Clubman

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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    RDW wrote:
    MountainMonster wrote:

    Phew, i'm in the clear. I've got it before the name.

    Geez, that was close.

    Where do these things actually come from? - is there a superb UK graphics and decal maker you'd like to tell us about?

    You know, now that you mention it I do happen to know a place.
    My London Road
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    I have my name on my bike.

    This is because it's my bike, I bought it and I like my name on it. I don't care what you do to yours or what you think i should do.

    Simple as that. :D


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    Capt Slog wrote:
    I don't care what you do to yours or what you think i should do.

    Simple as that. :D

    Yeah, neither does anyone else here. But don't tell anyone - it'll spoil the chance of a good thread.
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    MountainMonster wrote:
    RDW wrote:
    MountainMonster wrote:

    Phew, i'm in the clear. I've got it before the name.

    Geez, that was close.

    Where do these things actually come from? - is there a superb UK graphics and decal maker you'd like to tell us about?

    You know, now that you mention it I do happen to know a place.

    photos then ?
  • Colinthecop
    Colinthecop Posts: 996
    What does 'the rules' say about these sort of things...?
  • tim_wand
    tim_wand Posts: 2,552
    Its mandatory in our club, to all but me who rides a lowly Planet X.

    The rest are Dentists, Lawyers and accountants, and its the only way they can work out which Pinarello Dogma in team sky colours is theirs.

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