Bike license sticker removal-an easy way?
10-31-06, 09:48 PM
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Bike license sticker removal-an easy way?
Anyone with an easy way (less labor-intensive) to remove those old reflective 'city license' stickers that got wrapped around the seat tubes of older bikes? I have a 1985 Trek 520 that has a Salt Lake City license sticker on it and I can't seem to get under the sticker with Goo-B-Gone to loosen & remove it. Of course, it was put over the Reynolds sticker on the seat tube! Any ideas outside of fingernails picking at it? Thanks!
10-31-06, 10:01 PM
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Don't waste your time with Goo Gone or naptha. Those type of stickers get brittle, once heated sufficiently they get supple and will peel right off. Any residual gum can be removed with the chemiclas.
Don't waste your time with Goo Gone or naptha. Those type of stickers get brittle, once heated sufficiently they get supple and will peel right off. Any residual gum can be removed with the chemiclas.
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Otis, thanks! It worked just great--sticker came right off, cleaned off the residue glue with goo-gone. Thanks again!
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Originally Posted by karmantra
... Of course, it was put over the Reynolds sticker on the seat tube!
How did your Reynolds sticker fare?
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
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Reynolds sticker did not fare well--I tried to gently pull away as much of the license sticker from it as I could, but apparently the Reynolds sticker over time had bonded with the adhesive from the license sticker and I was left only with a corner attached to the bike. Oh well, the bike definitely looks better w/o that big SLC sticker!--Thing almost wrapped around the whole seat tube!
