https://www.made-in-china.com/showro...bon-Frame.html


https://www.mecum.com/lots/SC0512-12...rrari-replica/

No way. Had flames and unicorns painted over them.

Perfect! And a big eagle on the bonnet?

On another bike forum, someone had a mint, basically unridden, late 70’s/early 80’s full Campy Tom Ritchey road bike that was given to him.

Not that any of the bikes in question here measure up to that piece of history, but what would you say if someone removed all the markings on that bike?

Aside from the dropouts, it is just a very nice older road bike.

John

I ride a vintage Peugeot bike with racing stripes orange and yellow. With all Camy super record set. I find the modern all black bikes with back group sets ugly. It just is bad looking I like a colorful bike it makes me smile.

I'd be fine with it. It's just a bike. That persons own it, he can do whatever he wants with it. I don't put special value on old stuff, regardles of how old or how mint.

less is more.

On my Diamondback, I lost count of then umber of logo's on it, easily 20 or more. But I figure a cheap bright yellow bike is supposed to look outrageous.

https://www.rei.com/product/893062/d...etro-bike-2016

I've repainted most of my bikes and stripped the logos off first so they didn't leave a bump.

I don't mind logos if they are tasteful or from a good builder. Especially on my Phil Wood Apple VeloXS bike I bought it for the logos (partially it is also a great frame) However I am fine with a less logo'd bike or something sans logos.

Too all the people who posted their Titanium bikes MOAR PHOTOS (and correct photos) A photo of the non-drive side as the only picture is like showing a photo of just someone's upper back, ain't nobody really want to see that unless there are also photos of everything up front and down below. I especially want to see more of that Omnomnom those are awesome little cargo bikes.

I don’t wear logod apparel. I figure if I have to pay to advertise for them rather than vice versa, then let someone else do it. Every moving piece of transportation comes with its manufacture’s name, so I don’t worry about it.

Many years ago when I built my first frame Grant Petersen had written a comment about signature features on a frame that make it unmistakably a certain builders frame, and after the logos have worn off or the bike has been repainted for the third time, that feature marks the frame and can always be identified. My frames have no logos and feature certain things that unmistakably mark the frame as one of mine. Amen.

Haha, thanks. I will try to take some photos for you, but right now it's raining buckets. Drive-side photo, I will remember that. Any detail you want a closer look at?

Tom Ritchey talking about bike design. Steel vs. carbon. The evolution of where carbon should go..... and why it won't....
fast forward to 36:40: "here's the dirty little secret..... the companies want a billboard"

i ride steel. even if i buy new, it's steel. if the old frame needs paint, then i go logo free.


oversize tubing makes nice advert!

this GUNNAR got powdered and didn't get new logos.....

If I ever get a really nice, high dollar bike, I'll remove all the logos and replace them with Roadmaster logos so nobody will want to steal it.

That's why my bike and almost invisible logos and and it a rattle can black

It's not uncommon to see bikes locked up in major cities with logos covered up with electrical tape or spray paint for this very purpose.

I have no idea if it's actually effective or not.

Didn't you paint both your bikes with rattle can paint to do just that?

Take off my Serotta decal, I take off your face. My BD enormous "Motobecane" logo I covered up with silly stickers.

Good trend spot, OP. I think you're absolutely right that the big logo era seems to be winding down or over.

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave....”

I doubt that there are people that specialize in high end bikes. Do they hang around local coffee shops waiting for the owner to leave it outside when they go inside?

Now car thieves do hang around wealthy neighborhoods waiting for luxury car owners to run inside the coffee shop and leave their cars running.

Not bike related. I read a funny story in Longboard mag a number of years ago where someone ordered a new board and had the foam airbrushed to give a yellowing tint and have brown discolored areas. The pic of it made it look like an old beater.

It wasn’t done to prevent theft but to keep his wife from knowing he bought a new board.

John

I took the logos off of my high dollar bike. Now it looks like any old steel frame bike. I might find some old huffy stickers for it.

As noted above, people who disfigure their bikes to fool thieves looking for high-zoot bikes are living in a dream world. The overwhelming majority of bike thieves don't care what bike they get or what it looks like since they know that they can sell it on the street for twenty-five or thirty bucks for a fix (not a fixie).