Have you try peeling the decal off, it's quite easy you know. Of course if you have baked the decal in it would flake off but hopefully it' not there yet.

I've peeled a decal of my black frame it gave this phantom look for a few weeks then after I washed the bike it's all gone just a slight color difference, kinda cool.

I'd recommend against the spray paint. At best you'd have a new spray paint look, at worst well you just gotta redo the paint job

 

the lettering is underneath the paint job. they are not peel off stickers. the lettering is, i guess you would call it, clearcoated.

 

Just leave it unless you want to open a can of worms
If you paint over the stickers you will see the outline of the sticker when you are finished
If you want to do it the correct way let me know and I will post instructions

 

Just leave it unless you want to open a can of worms
If you paint over the stickers you will see the outline of the sticker when you are finished
If you want to do it the correct way let me know and I will post instructions

So there is no way to really paint over..?

 

It will probably look worse, not better.
You could try some wide black tape, and if you didn't like it, you could remove it.
Or, you can order bike stickers on line, and get some dark gray lettering which would give it a completely different look than the white.
I saw picture on this forum from a guy who used checkered race flag looking tape on part of his frame, and it actually looked good.

 

not sure if its the same for a bike, but i've removed decals from cars with the use of a hair dryer (heating gun is better) and some dental floss, razor works as well but you risk scratching your paint. Just heat it up, hold the floss tight and scrape off. Use some goo-gone to get off the resudue, just make sure you wash it off after to protect the finish. might work, not sure though.

 

Clear coat would flake off and would be left unprotected. Just live with it for the time being or order new set of decal and repaint the whole bike professionally, that would be my suggestion.

 

yea i think it's either leave the bike alone or have it professionally repainted which i'm not going to do, at least before the summer starts. the other thing that is kind of ok is that gaffing tape suggestion, maybe just to cover up a few decals.

 

Here's the thread I was talking about where the guy used checkered tape:

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=607785&highlight=Tape

 

I'd personally stay clear of spray paint - getting good results are tricky and requires some serious prep time because you WILL get overspray.

Keep in mind, newer bike manufacturers use special "wet" decals that are built into the paint process so there is no peeling off.

Lastly - bikes that are once'd over with spray paint scream "I'm stolen!!"

Check out Guerrilla Tape - stronger than Gaffers.

 

Lastly - bikes that are once'd over with spray paint scream "I'm stolen!!"

This was my first thought too.

 

Which bike is this roc?

 

I used black vinyl and wrapped my frame to hide the decals, the vinyl color matched the bike color and the lines blended in.....worked out really good.

 

interesting idea. i think i'm going to try this myself. it's only a few small areas but worth a shot.

 

good idea

 

Once I saw how hideous these decals looked on my Framed Minnesota, I could not un-see it. Just too many white explosions everywhere:

They're the decals that are under the topcoat, so I spray-painted the fork. It looks fine. Close enough match, but I probably wouldn't do the whole frame.