Does anyone have any tips on how to put your race number stickers on your helmet and seat post, without trashing helmet and seat post?
Thanks
Goo gone.
Odorless mineral spirits (available everywhere) easily remove any adhesive left behind.
Safe to use on a helmet? I worry about using spirits in case it effects the items you are trying to get the sticker off!
Rubbing alcohol. Cheap, safe, and effective. Don’t use chemicals (Goo Gone) or harsh mineral spirits.
I used to have this problem too. Now I place a strip of clear packing tape on the helmet and seat post first and put the race number on top of it. The packing tape peels off cleanly with no residue.
Goo Gone is mild and I use it on everything for removing sticker residue (bike, helmet, car, etc.)
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For you bike you can use a number holder like this
Best Tek Bike Racing Number Plate and Bike Racing Number Plate Mount, Race Number Plate and Cycling Number Holder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P9LBZRC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Y6P1MMPZ0RW4YTB67J5X
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Goo Gone is mild and I use it on everything for removing sticker residue (bike, helmet, car, etc.)
What’s in it and would you slap it onto a $12,000 frame without hesitation. I own Goo Gone as well, but I’d have to think twice before using something synthetic on expensive equipment.
Goo Gone is mild and I use it on everything for removing sticker residue (bike, helmet, car, etc.)
What’s in it and would you slap it onto a $12,000 frame without hesitation. I own Goo Gone as well, but I’d have to think twice before using something synthetic on expensive equipment.
If only I had a $12,000 frame…. Maybe in my dreams!
I used to have this problem too. Now I place a strip of clear packing tape on the helmet and seat post first and put the race number on top of it. The packing tape peels off cleanly with no residue.
Definitely a plan for the future. I saw electrical tape as a suggestion somewhere else.
Goo Gone is mild and I use it on everything for removing sticker residue (bike, helmet, car, etc.)
What’s in it and would you slap it onto a $12,000 frame without hesitation. I own Goo Gone as well, but I’d have to think twice before using something synthetic on expensive equipment.
I’ve used it on my P5-6 which I guess was a $12k build at the time. Also used in on car paint on a car worth multiple times that.
Odorless mineral spirits (available everywhere) easily remove any adhesive left behind.
Safe to use on a helmet? I worry about using spirits in case it effects the items you are trying to get the sticker off!
I’ve used it on my helmet(s) (the outer hard plastic shell where the sticker was placed), bike frame(s), carbon fiber seat post, and all sorts of stuff that Ms. Tostig has brought home with stickers attached. I’ve never had a problem.
Note to add. NEVER use acetone. That will eat plastic (and probably some other stuff).
This method is tried and true and uses no chemicals. Remove the sticker from the backing, Take the backing, and cut a piece of the backing smaller than the sticker, about 70% of the sticker size. Place the piece of the backing in the middle of the sticker, and apply the sticker. The sticker is easier to remove because you are only using the border of the adhesive.
Have no rubbing alcohol at home, just tried vodka, didn’t work 🤪
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Sanitizer
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Odorless mineral spirits (available everywhere) easily remove any adhesive left behind.
Safe to use on a helmet? I worry about using spirits in case it effects the items you are trying to get the sticker off!
I’ve used it on my helmet(s) (the outer hard plastic shell where the sticker was placed), bike frame(s), carbon fiber seat post, and all sorts of stuff that Ms. Tostig has brought home with stickers attached. I’ve never had a problem.
Note to add. NEVER use acetone. That will eat plastic (and probably some other stuff).
Absolutely this last point. Even if you can’t see the damage, acetone can cause stress corrosion on some plastics (and remember your carbon $12k frame is a kine of plastic !). I still recall lab tests decades ago in my degree - put some acrylic or polycarbonate under load and it’s pretty strong. One tiny drop of acetone and it fails suddenly in lots of pieces.
(Those old enough to remember, putting ‘normal’ stickers on a polycarbonate motor bike helmet back in the day was a total no-no for this reason - it wasn’t visible but the adhesive/solvent would severely weaken the structure).
I put down some blue painters tape on the frame/helmet and then put the race sticker on the tape. This way I don’t have to clean up afterwards.
Goo Gone is mild and I use it on everything for removing sticker residue (bike, helmet, car, etc.)
No idea what’s in Goo Gone, but I use it on skinsuits routinely, as 3M 77 leaves a sticky residue.
Works a charm and never seems to hurt the skinsuit.