Originally Posted by
autism
I just received my VELOCALS stickers for a 1970 Gitane Grand Sport de Luxe.
The price was $50 shipped... maybe it's just me, but it's just waay too much. Also, they break apart a set of stickers that come with one bike and sell them separately (see attached pic - they sell this for extra $15 even though it's part of the same set), as if i'm buying stickers for different bikes, so my total came up to about $65 for what should've been a single set of decals for a single bike.
Anyway, the fonts are sloppily matched, they look like original only to a typographically challenged person. If you see no difference, for example, between Arial and Verdana, then it's no problem. Tons of mistakes in colors, width of the lines, etc. Sloppy job. I left them a Positive feedback on ebay but it's not like i had a choice, really.
I'll preface my remarks on Velocal by saying that their customer service, delivery time, and the quality of their product (aside from below) was excellent.
The only thing I caution is when you receive the decals, make sure you're satisfied with how they actually accurately reproduced the original. Like the poster above, my decals were not very accurate. They look just fine to anyone who isn't familiar with the original decals, but the color of the striping and other non-black graphics, the size of the font, the proportions of font to the other graphics, and lack of a couple of important details (gold pinstriping was missing on the main stripes, for one).
I put the decals on and again, they look OK and the quality of the ink and vinyl is excellent. But I'm working with a local sign shop to make some decals that are much closer to the original. I contacted Velocals about the discrepancies, but they could only offer what they have.
Again, if what you order is a good match to the original, I think you'll be very satisfied with Velocals. But just make sure before you remove and replace the old ones, or at least do an image search on the web to get an idea what they should look lke.