How To Install Dirt Bike and ATV Graphics

hey guys this is Justin with Rocky Mountain atv/mc and today I'm gonna show you the right way to install graphics on your dirt bike alright guys so we all know that a fresh set of graphics makes our bikes look awesome and it also makes us faster well maybe it doesn't make us faster but it makes us look faster so in this video I want to show you guys how to install graphics on your dirt bike installing graphics for a lot of guys is really difficult at first if you've never done it before but once you kind of get the basic tips and tricks down the process down it becomes really easy and you can do them very quick now we sell a lot of different graphics for your motorcycle ATV and UTV but in this video I'm gonna show you how to install a set of attack graphics some custom graphics for this yz250 X to do this job we're gonna need a heat gun some contact cleaner rags razor blade scissors and in some cases you might want an application kit I'll talk about that a little bit later but this kit is from attack graphics alright so the first step when installing graphics and maybe the most important step is to make sure the plastic is clean now if you're putting your graphics on old plastic of course you want to make sure the old graphics are removed if there's any sticky stuff left use some contact cleaner to get that off I really like the pj1 contact cleaner it seems to work really well with graphics and if you have scratches in your plastic I like to use a razor blade and kind of run that over the plastic to get all the little scrapes and bumps out of the plastic if you don't do that you're gonna end up with bubbles and it's not going to look very good now even if you have brand new plastic like I'm going to be using today new or old you want to clean it really good with contact cleaner and the reason for that is because even new plastic is going to have a little bit of an oily film on it cleaning it with the contact cleaner is going to allow that graphic to stick really well so once your plastics are cleaned we can go ahead and stallo graphics one of the more difficult parts of installing graphics for a lot of people is getting the wrinkles out and the reason you get wrinkles is because you're trying to apply a perfectly flat piece of vinyl to a piece of plastic that has all sorts of curves and contours to it now the vinyl will stretch and conform to those curves and and different shapes on your plastics in most cases but you've got to be able to do it right you've got to be able to push those wrinkles out correctly for that to happen and I'm gonna show you how to do that all right the first thing I'm going to do with this decal is I'm going to cut the paper backing out for all around the edge of the decal and that's going to help me align the graphic on the number plate alright so now that I've gotten the backing paper trimmed from the edge of the graphic I now want to cut a strip of that backing paper off the back of the decal right down the center of the graphic and on number plates I do that horizontally and this is going to do two things for me one it's going to allow me to align the graphic on the number plate and two it's going to allow me to work the graphic on starting from the center and I can work any bubbles or wrinkles out toward the edge of the graphic now it's important when you do this you work those wrinkles out evenly if you don't do it evenly you're gonna end up with a big wrinkle in one spot that you're not gonna be able to work out okay so now that I have my little strip cut out I'm going to align this on the number plate and it's good idea to just kind of wrap the number plate around to make sure it is lining up with any holes or cutouts as well as all the edges once I have it in a place that I'm happy with I'll go ahead and stick it down where I have that cutout okay once my center piece is put down I'm going to start working the graphic on and I'm gonna start with the bottom now keep in mind my cut on my paper kind of runs this way it would have been a little bit better to stay below this band and run across here but that's okay it's still gonna work so I'm gonna flip it up grab the paper take it off and with one hand I'm gonna kind of hold this off so it doesn't stick down and get ahead of me and then I'm going to slowly from the center work this graphic on so I'm just gonna run my finger back and forth from the center and work my way out and this bottom piece I don't think any wrinkles are gonna appear but if they do I'll try to spread it out over a large area so working it like this you should be able to avoid getting any bubbles and I have some tiny little wrinkles along the edge but I think they'll be easy to push out there you go so there's half the number plate now we can go ahead and work on the top half so the same thing I'll just pull it back get my paper out of the way and again hang on to it so it doesn't just start sticking and then slowly work everything side to side as you're pushing it out this part is going to be the trickier part this is where things are going to want to wrinkle a little bit so that went on pretty good so this graphic actually went on pretty good I've got some slight wrinkles around the edges but not a big deal now because this piece of vinyl is getting pushed and pulled into you know a different shape I'm going to make sure it stays down nice by using a heat gun now if you don't have a heat gun blow dryer works as well when you do this it's most important to get the edges typically when a graphic wants to bubble or peel up it's going to be around the edge not in the center of the graphic so I'd get it nice and warm then I can just kind of run my finger over it make sure everything is pushed down nice and I'll do that all around the edges of this number plate with the Shroud graphic I'm gonna do the same thing I've got my strip cut out of the center I'm going to align it on the shroud and then I will work it all on all right now a lot of people like to use application fluid to put on decals I don't like to do that when the plastic I'm working on has a lot of curves and contours to it but on flat surfaces like the swingarm it works really well also on like a TV and UTV graphics it works nice because you just spray it on the surface you're putting the sticker on spray a little on the backside of the decal there as well and this makes it so you don't have to or I guess so it's a lot easier to line up you can move it around it's not gonna stick right away so we can line that up like so and then it allows us to move it around once it's in place we can use the squeegee and squeegee the fluid out from behind the decal there so again you know if you have flat surfaces swingarm front number plate UTV graphics this works really nice so once it's in place you just let that dry for a little bit then you come back and hit it with the heat gun alright guys so that's how you install graphics on a motorcycle now it doesn't matter if you're doing a number plate rear fender whatever the technique is pretty much all the same make sure your plastics clean work from the center and work those wrinkles out and then finish it off with a little heat to help them stick better your bike's gonna be looking like a million bucks now check out our website for our graphic options including our attack graphics where you can get customized graphics and subscribe to our youtube channel we've got a lot of different how-to videos product spotlights and bike builds thanks a lot for watching [Music]

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Length: 9min 33sec (573 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 14 2018