Sitting in the garage having a beer, looking at my bike asking myself "Self, what next" and I noticed the VIN / Emission Decal on the right down tube of the frame and wondered why haven't I removed this. Anybody else remove this decal / sticker and if so is it just like removing any other decal / sticker?

 

Self, I kept the VIN but removed the other stuff. Easy to do.....just heat with a hair dryer and peel off slowly. The use WD40 or similar to get any residue off.

 

Peels right off pretty easily. Use a little heat from a heat gun if you have to but I dont think you will need it. your bike will look alot better w/o that ugly decal!!

Good luck hope this helps...

 

I agree it looks better without the stickers.

But in the back of my head theres a little voice telling me that sometime, somewhere, theres going to be some half wit brainless civil servant thats going to ask you, "Where's your EPA compliance sticker?". I hope "stuck to an envelope in the tool bag" will be a good enough answer for him.

I hope it never comes to that, but we were saying the same type of things about cars in the 60's. Look what that got us.

 

I removed both. The vin is stamped in the neck. The only other info that I care about was the mfg date.

 

Mine just peeled off by getting it started at the corner. No extra heat or chemicals. Left virtually no residue either.

 

same here. just scratched at it and it came off. dont look forward to keeping it in one piece because it wont happen.