Cycling in Melbourne Australia

Pimp my ride

Of all the good things that come in the package that is an xtracycle, the one thing that lets it down is the finish on the snapdeck

It's a screen print on a ply deck that has probably half a lick of varnish on it. On mine, it has weathered quickly. So I've decided I want to pimp it up a bit.

So I'm thinking of a base colour, probably charcoal, and in a lighter shad of charcoal using the space to have a vinyl letter slogan put on from the local sign place, then clear coating it for durability.

I just need some input for some slogans.

I thought "Weapon of mass congestion" would have a good traffic feel to it. Then there is alos the ol' chestnut, "Burn fat , not oil."

Anybody have any input here?

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Permalink Reply by Stavros on December 6, 2008 at 9:00pm: So I've inquired about an airbrushing course, but, this side of Christmas, it's out of the question.

The deck is 5mm, ply. About $40 bucks for a sheet, which would get me about 20 snapdecks. So I'm thinking of cutting at least 10 out and playing around with a few design incorporating a few images from a rockabilly theme.

Then I might actually play around with some custom cut vinyl lettering and bring the "traffic fodder" theme amongst others.

So I could effectively have a snapdeck for every day of the week.

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Permalink Reply by Cory on December 6, 2008 at 9:13pm: Or something else 'Roth'esque, but with a bicycle... instead of a V8; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ChrisS on December 6, 2008 at 9:20pm: Speaking of Big Daddy Roth - a velo version of this would scare the neighbourhood ...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by LongLoad on December 8, 2008 at 10:59pm: You could always take the easy option and put your name on the back:-; ▶ Reply to This