9 Tips for How To Wrap a Motorcycle

[Applause] if you might have been my children tomorrow think about my views and do my bro's daughter walk into the future but my shoes what's going on guys moaning ah City here I'm back it's uh it's been a while mainly because this video has taken all week to make over the past week I've been wrapping my 2017 Yamaha r6 if you missed the first couple of videos and the first one we did the disassembly taking off all the pieces off the bike that we wanted to wrap in the second video we got started on the wrapping process and today we're finishing everything and I'm gonna be bringing you guys some of my top tips for helping you guys wrap your own motorcycle fair warning it's not as easy as you think but note you probably can do it I believe but Noah over the past week I've probably put in about 25 hours into the wrapping process that's taken off all the stuff off the bike and then wrapping everything if you're new to wrapping you haven't wrapped before and you want to know the basics of what you need to get the job done I'll put those links down in the description for the tools vinyl and everything else that you're gonna need to get started but more so than having the right supplies is knowing what you're gonna get into knowing how to resolve something before you encounter it to make things a little bit easier this was my first rap job now there is a ton of videos on YouTube for how to wrap a car but there really aren't a whole lot on how to wrap a motorcycle I found that not a lot of rap shops do raps on motorcycles and this process has helped me understand why they do not because it is not as easy as a car however I strongly recommend just browsing YouTube and watching it as many videos as you can on rapping primarily from professional sources so you know the basics of how to get it done there really are a lot of good resources out there I probably watched at least a hundred different videos before I started but what those videos will not tell you or how to deal with some of the things that you're gonna deal with when wrapping a motorcycle that's what I'm here for and once we're all done going over all tips I'm gonna put this bike together let's get right to it these are my top 9 tips for how to wrap your motorcycle tip number 1 disassemble and prep and when you're wrapping the car typically you keep everything on the car itself except maybe bumpers or mirrors things like that that are easily removed however on a motorcycle it's really easy to remove the pieces from the bike and in a lot of cases you're gonna want to do it no matter what with a lot of motorcycles you're gonna have to remove parts anyways because some things are hidden they have a lot of different angles and indentions and holes and just a whole lot of stuff that you got to deal with and without removing it from the bike you kind of can't wrap it properly it's also gonna make them a lot easier to tuck the vinyl around edges and things like that so do yourself a favor just remove everything that you want to wrap off of the bike and go from there tip number two get the right supplies now obviously you're gonna need your vinyl that's that's a given but there's a lot of other things that you're gonna need to make the wrapping job easier I bought a little tool kit it was great it was cheap it had pretty much everything that I needed and it made things a lot easier having the right tool for the job is gonna help you out a lot whether it be the razor blade squeegees vinyl cutting tool it's all there it makes things easy one of the things that the tool kit did not have that I would recommend getting is a tack cloth this is gonna help you out with prepping all the parts for the wrap obviously anything that you don't want to show through the vinyl is gonna need to be cleaned off so make sure they're clean make sure there's no dirt bug guts stickers anything like that all that has to be removed and right before you do your wrap job just go over it with a tack cloth and make sure you don't have any dust or things like that and speaking of keeping things clean tip number three work in a clean environment I worked in my dining room if you have a good space in your garage that's free from dust or you got a room that you can do it in just wherever you do it make sure that it's clean tip number four kind of cruising down the supplies road of things get enough vinyl for the job now I've researched a lot beforehand to see how much vinyl was recommended for a motorcycle job obviously every motorcycle is gonna be different you don't know how many pieces you have and how big those pieces are or how they're gonna fit together on the vinyl when you're cutting things out but the number that I saw most often was 8 feet and that is 8 feet by 5 feet so the vinyl that you buy is gonna be 5 feet in width and then you just choose the length of the vinyl that you want however I ordered way more than that I ordered 15 feet I did not want to have to deal with running out and having to reorder more vinyl wait for that to come so I just ordered a whole lot just to make sure that I wasn't gonna run out and I could redo things if I wanted to redo them but to give you guys a number I ended up using that 9 feet of the vinyl I kind of stick in the 10 to 12 range unless you got a really really big bike with a lot of pieces 10 to 12 should give you enough tip number 5 get help and for this one I'm not referring to your mental issues although you probably should get help for that too but get help with the rap job when you have someone else that can help you out Lane vinyl down pressing things when you're trying to stretch things that sounds strange just just go with it having a second person on hand when you need them is super helpful they don't need to be around all the time but for the situations when it would be a lot easier having someone around is really helpful tip number 6 start simple now with this what I'm referring to is start on the most simple pieces that you can the most simple pieces are they're gonna be the ones that are the flattest and have the least number of indentions holes curves edges anything that is not a flat surface is gonna make your life more difficult so start on the flattest pieces you can it doesn't have to be the smallest piece but as long as it's as close to flat as you can get it's gonna be a lot easier to do after you get some time with it you understand how the final works how it deals with curves and edges and things like that corners all of that then you can move on to the harder pieces word of advice leave the tank for last tip number 7 don't be afraid to use heat it wasn't in the tool kit but you're gonna want to have this you're gonna want to heat gun you probably could get away with a hairdryer if you don't want to spend the money for a heat gun but I think I'm the one I picked up was maybe 20 30 bucks this when wrapping a motorcycle is a lot more crucial than when you're doing a car because of the fact that you have a lot more complex pieces than you would on a car having the heat allows you to better form the vinyl in places where it's not very flat it just makes things so much easier when you're trying to wrap around edges or go through different curves wrap corners areas where you're dealing with a lot of excess vinyl that you're trying to work through using the heat in those situations helps out a lot do not be afraid to use the heat because it really can't help you out a lot and as long as you have a good vinyl and that's one of the keys you got to have a good vinyl to do this but as long as you have a good vinyl don't be afraid to stretch the vinyl because most of the time it can't take it and a lot of cases you're gonna have to use heat no matter what but that brings us to point number eight don't use too much heat now like I said as long as you've got a good vinyl most of the time it can take the heat but if you don't have to use it don't use it the vinyl can tear it's unlikely the only tear that I had happen was because it got caught on a sharp edge and that's how it tore wasn't even hot at the time so the heat didn't have anything to do with it but it can tear and if you do have a tear or you get a hole in the vinyl for whatever reason using heat and stretching and things like that is just gonna make it worse it's gonna get bigger and it's gonna make your life horrible and you're gonna hate it so just be careful don't use the heat too much it also stretches out the look of the vinyl and for the most part the vinyl looks its best when it hasn't been stretched out heated a lot and another quick note on that when you heat things up you don't need to heat it up for very long just a couple seconds will do the trick anything longer and it's just gonna start melting in your hands and moving on to our last tip number nine this cover is a whole lot of stuff take your time no matter what you're working on whether it be indentions in the fairings whether it's super sharp corners whether it's curves or edges on the side just take your time some of the hardest pieces I had were the gas tank and the air box cover and that's because they have really heavily indented sides and so you have to curve around that and then move towards the front or the rear of those pieces and you just end up with a lot of excess vinyl that you kind of had nowhere to go with if you take your time with these pieces and balance out using heat and stretching things out you can make it work or to advise some pieces like that the way I was able to make it work is just taking my time constantly working the vinyl and eventually you push all of that excess vinyl off the edge to where it's not gonna be laid down on those pieces and then you're good to go another area corners and edges take your time on those with the corners you're gonna want to wrap it around the the edge of it first like the actual corner and then move around to the sides of that corner it's a lot better to have any wrinkles on the sides than it is to have them on the actual corner otherwise you're gonna have problems with the vinyl lifting off again just take your time and I got one more bonus tip for you guys it's okay to undo your work whether it be undoing one section just lifting off a centimeter or two in an area so that you can redo it or if it's just completely redoing a whole piece don't be afraid to back up and start over in a lot of cases you're gonna have to anyways for example with the gas tank a lot of it is stretching the vinyl and moving it towards the area that you need to move it towards to get it off the gas tank so you can get rid of excess vinyl and in a lot of those cases you're gonna have to stretch it out place it down lift it up and then press it down again speaking of which protip after you lift something off or if you're dealing with wrinkles or anything like that heat it up a little bit let it sit there don't stretch it out yet the heat will flatten it out so it's back to its normal look and texture then work with it and you're gonna have flatter cleaner looking vinyl than if you just laid down wrinkly bits that sounds weird but yeah don't be afraid to back up a little bit take your time and if you decided in the beginning to order 15 feet of vinyl it's okay if you have to redo a piece or two then that's it that is my top 9 plus 1 bonus tip tips on how to wrap your motorcycle all the supplies that I use when we link down in the description so you guys can get started yourself but let's get to the thing that you guys probably want to see putting this bike back together my children to my brother think about my views and did my brother walk into the future but my shoes hit a pothole I keep walking in circles pumping the ball back feel like Benjamin Button going the wrong way got a demon on my shoulder yelling mande you could be the brainy LeBron James take a look at me you just see the way they look at me now I'm 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Id: E3BdJ7WqbQU

Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 15 2018