Bike Graphics - Building

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While I had the bike in the shop (for too long!) I decided to acquire some vinyl sticker material to see what I could do about recreating the sticker graphics that have been falling off the bike.

The first step I took was tracing out the graphics in their current state:

White paper with black pen wrapped around a blue metallic tube

Unwrapped, this provides a pretty good target to aim for and take measurements

White paper with black pen

White paper with black pen. Letters are about 20mm

Then I went through the vinyl that I have to try and match the colors of the graphics and paint:

Blue for the frame color

Blue Top bike tube with shades of blue vinyl for color matching

Oranges for the darker sticker graphics

Blue Top bike tube with shades of orange vinyl for color matching

Yellow, orange and red for the lighter sticker graphics

Blue Top bike tube with shades of orange vinyl for color matching

I also have black vinyl for the background.

This all feeds back to 3D Printing (surprise, surprise). Now that I have measurements for the templates that I want to trace, I can 3D print stencils and cut the patterns with a knife.

Once I have the cut patterns, I can use transfer paper to lay out the pieces correctly, then apply them to the bike.