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yellow rim strips - lds1973 - 26-06-13
Has anyone got a silver bike with yellow rim strips? I'm thinking it would go well together. Any pictures??? Photoshop???
Cheers
Lee
Re: yellow rim strips - Andy Smith FZS - 26-06-13
I've got them on a blue bike. Posted a picture of my bike on one of my threads a few weeks ago.
should look good on a silver bike
Re: yellow rim strips - Punkstig - 26-06-13
Can't see it personally, I'd have thought either blue or silver rim tape to go with a silver bike!
Re: yellow rim strips - lds1973 - 26-06-13
Yellow and silver is an old school Yamaha combo isnt it?
Wasn't there a famous race bike in those colours or was it yellow and black?
Re: yellow rim strips - darrsi - 26-06-13
The fact that if you do a search for a silver bike with yellow rims/wheels and hardly anything comes up speaks volumes in itself.
I wouldn't say it's the greatest colour combination to be truthful.
Re: yellow rim strips - lds1973 - 26-06-13
[smg id=999 type=preview align=center caption="red"]
[smg id=1000 type=preview align=center caption="blue"]
[smg id=1001 type=preview align=center caption="yellow"]
my super duper paint skills, i like the yellow and also the red, the blue doesnt do it for me.
What do you guys thinks? obviously it would be a little thicker in real life.
Re: yellow rim strips - Andy FZS - 26-06-13
Looks like a fazer ghost. Lol.
Re: yellow rim strips - lds1973 - 26-06-13
That didn't work too well did it?
Re: yellow rim strips - Enceladus - 27-06-13
as you can get the yellow rim tape off fleabay for next to nothing, why not grab one and try it ?
Re: yellow rim strips - lds1973 - 27-06-13
[smg id=1007 type=preview align=center caption="red wheels j"][smg id=1006 type=preview align=center caption="blue wheels j"][smg id=1005 type=preview align=center caption="yellow wheels j"]
Re: yellow rim strips - darrsi - 27-06-13
I particularly like the middle one :rollin :rollin :rollin
It's like the photo's that start fading in Back To The Future.
Or as Rolf Harris would say "Can you see what it is yet?" :lol
Re: yellow rim strips - lds1973 - 27-06-13
OK ok I get it now, jpegs instead of bitmaps.
Thanks for your patience.
Re: yellow rim strips - Kentish - 27-06-13
What about white?
Re: yellow rim strips - darrsi - 27-06-13
An alternative is do what i do and paint the letters on the tyres in the colour of your choice!
You do need a decent paint pen, a bit of patience and a steady hand though, but the results are good when the bike's all cleaned up as well.
mokin Re: yellow rim strips - Yamazer-92 - 27-06-13
I have done the same thing as Darrsi recently, have always wanted to do it but couldn't find a tyre with white writing. Then realised you do it yourself with a £2 pen. Looks really cool in my opinion, I personally think rim tape can look really tacky and awful on some bikes if it's not done properly.
Re: yellow rim strips - darrsi - 27-06-13
(27-06-13, 03:50 PM)Yamazer-92 link Wrote: I have done the same thing as Darrsi recently, have always wanted to do it but couldn't find a tyre with white writing. Then realised you do it yourself with a £2 pen. Looks really cool in my opinion, I personally think rim tape can look really tacky and awful on some bikes if it's not done properly.
Getting a decent paint pen is the main thing, i bought a couple a while ago and the tips on both were absolutely useless, but fortunately i was able to put the old tip onto the new pen and then it worked okay.
Re: yellow rim strips - Enceladus - 27-06-13
had yellow tape on my black bike for a while
looked awful!
[smg id=1008 type=preview align=center caption="yellow rim tape"]
then decided white was much better
[smg id=1009 type=preview align=center caption="white rim tape"]
Re: yellow rim strips - nick crisp - 27-06-13
I particularly like badly applied tape that makes wheels look like 50p pieces! :lol
Re: yellow rim strips - Frosties - 28-06-13
No one going to mention black rim tape then :rollin
Re: yellow rim strips - Punkstig - 28-06-13
(28-06-13, 07:23 AM)Frosties link Wrote: No one going to mention black rim tape then :rollinYou say that, I I love the black vinyl that reflects white, but yeah, completely against the point of rim tape except at night!