Restoration - frame stickers?

Mickey85

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Hey guys, long time no talk. I have my bike pulled down completely to the frame. I'm about to start stripping the frame and tank (and I'm sure I'll have many, many more questions), but my primary question is - how do you preserve the frame sticker on the head tube? I'm planning on sand blasting most of the frame (due to surface rust, particularly under and around the battery box area), but I'd like to preserve the ID sticker. Is there a place that sells reproductions of the originals? Mine looks nearly new (the bike only has 14K on it), so I'd hate to trash it, but if I can get a new one, that may be nearly as good.
 
We have talked about it before on here. It is illegal in all states to modify the original vin plate. So you technically can't take them off and put them back on. If one is damaged or unreadable, the only legal way to do it is to go through your states agency and get a new vin plate issued by them.

That being said, lots of people go around this and just have a vin plate made up with the original info. I wouldn't condone this but to each their own.

You can also do what lots of others do, and that is to just mask over the vin sticker with painters tape. You can media blast and paint around it.
 
I used painter's tape while painting,...granted I didn't blast the frame but tape it and have the blast place you take it to take notice and it should be fine.
 
There are no places to get these. Your frame does have the vin number stamped into the neck, that's all you really need anyway. If the sticker is in great shape just duct tape it well and avoid blasting that area.
 
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