i have 90mm easton’s.
i like the look of the newer wheels with shaded/ghost or no lettering.
i dont want to harm the carbon in anyway. any recommendations for removal?
My experience has been that Easton logos are baked on. Not as simple as heating up and pulling off a decal.
Removing would involve intensive work including painting.
But then I’m wrong about most everything.
I recall reading something recently where they said the logo is put on with a wet transfer label then clear coated.
ETA: It was in this article
http://www.lavamagazine-digital.com/lavamagazine/201305?pg=37#pg39
I can’t speak specifically on the Easton’s but I have a pair of Planet X wheels. These had the graphics painted and baked on. I just recently took the graphics off. I basically sanded them down just enough to take the paint off, switched to a very fine grit sand paper (like a 320 grit) and also did a light wet sanding. Then I cleaned them up with denatured alcohol until no black residue appeared on the rag. I then just got a can of auto body spray paint in clear gloss. Sprayed two light coats of clear and lightly sanded in between. Finally used a rubbing compound to buff them up. They look brand new!
I maybe have a total of 4 hours of labor. Sanding the graphic off was the most time consuming.
Yes, they can be removed. You can sand it down with sandpaper, but it’s going to have scratches from sanding.
I sanded down the Planet X logo and then I spray paint it with plastic black paint
It came out awesome https://youtu.be/bhaHO_GKpiQ
Run your fingernail over the edge of the decal/lettering. If you can feel the edge of a decal then you should be able to remove it with some heat etc. if there is no edge then it probably means the decal has been applied to the rim and clearcoat applied over the top, in which case it can’t be removed without removing the clearcoat, which is not a practical solution. If the decals are under the clearcoat I would suggest getting new decals to apply over the top and cover the original ones.
Very helpful tip, thx
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i have 90mm easton’s.
i like the look of the newer wheels with shaded/ghost or no lettering.
i dont want to harm the carbon in anyway. any recommendations for removal?
Go with what Donnie said…not Max Daddy 
That LAVA article may not apply to your wheels. I think it’s about their wheels introduced a couple years ago that nobody has ever seen in the wild yet.
I have the same wheels as you and thought I wanted my wheels to look like everybody else’s too. It’s just painted on. Look up ‘wet sanding’ and go from there. Use finer and finer grit sandpaper and take your time. If you go hard enough to knock it all off on the first pass or two, you are using way too much pressure and will get to upgrade to ‘modern’ wheels.
Those aren’t bad wheels. 21mm wide and <1500 grams for 90mm wheels isn’t exactly something ready for a museum.
I wrote that piece. And watched them apply decals, which wasn’t unlike the way I did with model Revell cars and airplanes as a kid; wet, slide them into place, let dry.
Which is to say, the branding is film-thin, with no raised section to even try to chip away and peel off. Sand it down and you will almost certainly go down to the carbon substrate… which very well could damage the carbon fibers themselves.
The team there did a VERY light wet sand using super fine grit to give their wheels that satin finish, before applying decals and before applying a clear coat. A dry sand to get the coat off is going to have to be a lot more aggressive to cut through the coat, thusly much more dangerous to the carbon fibers underneath once you reach them.
Your call… but I sure wouldn’t do it.
I actually just saw on eBay in the UK a company selling the decals in different colors including black to go right over the top of the white ones. Might be worth a look.
Pip.