Anyone ever wrapped their bike themselves ?

[dobbyhasfriends]

I have a load of vinyl wrap here, enough to do the bike twice at least.. one is mirror green and one is a green/gold flip.. anyone done it themselves? what are the pitfalls?

 

[akuria]

I have wrapped bike frames before. I would stay away from simple solid colors as it is IMPOSSIBLE to wrap a frame without seems. solid color show seems much more and knowing where to seem as well and what direction to seem for less viability is key. Graphics with lots going on are the best as the busyness of the graphic will hide most seems.

 

[routrax]

 

[118]

Not my bike, however I have myself, around a tree..

 

[Fivetones]

Try it? I expect you have some spare time and you’ll certainly learn something useful. Then feed back what you find

 

[dobbyhasfriends]

Try it? I expect you have some spare time and you’ll certainly learn something useful. Then feed back what you find

this is exactly why I did it.. I was going to get it wrapped by essential (and may still have to of course) but I cant go there of course. got plenty of time so.. we will see

 

[dobbyhasfriends]

Undecided.... you can’t really see the flip colour but I know that this is gonna be a challenge.

 

[akuria]

Just a tip from someone that wraps cars for a living. Chrome wrap vinyl does not stretch very well so use more pieces which will require more seems. We call them "inlays"

Also you will want to get some adhesion promoter and put it on in areas of high stretch before you put the vinyl on and do post heat after vinyl is on to erase the memory of the vinyl or else you WILL get lifting and pealing. It needs to be at least 180 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

[dobbyhasfriends]

Just a tip from someone that wraps cars for a living. Chrome wrap vinyl does not stretch very well so use more pieces which will require more seems. We call them "inlays"

Also you will want to get some adhesion promoter and put it on in areas of high stretch before you put the vinyl on and do post heat after vinyl is on to erase the memory of the vinyl or else you WILL get lifting and pealing. It needs to be at least 180 degrees Fahrenheit.

thanks mate, I gotta say that I think this task is beyond my ability to create an acceptable finish.. ill use the wrap for other stuff I think.
what adhesion promoter?

 

[akuria]

thanks mate, I gotta say that I think this task is beyond my ability to create an acceptable finish.. ill use the wrap for other stuff I think.
what adhesion promoter?

the promoter is 3M primer 94. yeah chrome is especially hard to wrap with even by pros.