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I don't know what's on the bike in other countries but I live in Australia and my 650f came with 4 or 5 stickers stuck in the most obvious gayest places telling me how to ride the bike. So I go to peel them off and they are THE hardest sticker to remove. the plastic laminate comes off and leaves the writing there. I go to peel the rest off and it just crumbles and leaves sticky resin.

Anyone else tried takin theirs off? How'd you remove the resin without damaging paint at all. Eucalyptus oil usually works best for me but I have never used it on paint, only glass when taking rego sticker off car windscreen.

wait for summer, or use your blow dryer. I made the same mistake with one, so now I wait a couple of months.

Yeah mat, those stickers are a pain in the rear end. Here in the US I've got my Suzi with the same silly amount of stickers. What I did was:
a: Borrowed the blow dryer from my wife *LOL, because a heat gun can be already too hot, even on a low setting.
b: used a new box cutter blade and started slowly to push underneath the sticker.

I "pre" warmed the sticker, than I used a window cleaner liquid to help dissolve the adhesive, yes it took ages, but you've got to take your time, else you'll cut in to the fairings or scratch the tank.

The blow dryer works well, but I used a paint remover heat gun. You need to be patient and watch what it is doing. It probably took 2-3 minutes of heating each sticker and then it peeled right off. Scraping it will harm your finish. Also, as alluded to above, be careful of making it too hot. I did mine holding the heat gun about 5-6 inches (2-3 cm) from the sticker watching it closely. Anything like bubbling then stop. But again, be patient...

hair dryer and get some "goo remover" at bunnings in the cleaner section ,where the mops and stuff are ,got some last week.
DO NOT USE YOUR FINGER NAIL ..DO NOT USE YOUR FINGER NAIL...use a credit card to left it off when its soft after using the heat gun.

I left all on mine and now do not even see em. Yet when i was at the local dealer
i was checking out the Gxxrs 600 750 and Busa and ONE STICKER caught my eye

PREMIUM
FUEL
ONLY .

I feel your pain, I tried to peel one off the other day and it was so stuck on there I thought the paint was going to get damaged that I just left it..... (didn't have a hair dryer at the time).... lol

DO NOT use anything to scrape the sticker off either the paint or plastic. Use a hairdryer on the hottest setting your fingers can stand (use your fingers as a temperature gauge so that you know when to stop heating the plastic - the paintwork can withstand the hairdryer's hottest temp anyway) and carefully get hold of one corner of the sticker and pull and blow (using the hairdryer) the sticker off. Any scraping of the plastic will show for years afterwards.

Ones inside the fairing under the handlebars didn't bother me, but the one in the middle of the tank... I wanna kill the guy who made that decision. This whole "covering our arses" business has really went overboard.

Anyway, I peeled the top clear plastic off, then spent a few minutes scraping the leftovers with my fingernail. I thought of using something else, like icecream stick (soft pinewood) but I decided against it. Slower is better than quick with scratched paint.

Now for the strange bit: the glue that is left can be removed with OIL. I dabbed a little plain cooking oil onto a paper tissue and rubbed. It's not like the glue will just dissolve in it instantly, but with a bit of rubbing it all came off. Then clean the oil remainder with a dry paper towel, and finish with anything soapy. I just used a little general spray cleaner. Dishwashing liquid would have been my second choice, or maybe even Windex?

+1 to sleddogs plan... thats exactly what i did and worked a treat. get an old membership card to the old club that used to be good as it'll most likely warp and goo remover.

Good as Gold

I used a hair dryer, but it didn't provide enough heat. Guess all the fuel in the tank prevented the heat from building up. Ended up using a credit card, WD-40, and Nu Finish liqid car polish. Alternating back and forth between the WD-40 and the Nu Finish got the remnants of sticker and adhesive off and left the tank looking like it had never been there.

Hit a deer before I got around to trying to remove the stickers from the plastic, and the replacement plastics didn't have stickers. I'd be leary of using heat or goo remover on the plastic though.

Used my wife's super powered hair dryer on tank and plastics with no problems at all. All stickers removed in less than five minutes with no residue. Took me longer to run the extension lead from the house to the yard!

when i bought the bike, i asked my dealer to remove them for me xD

but other irritating stickers, i also heat it, and than get a small plastic spoon, with a sharp edge.
because it is plastic, you wont scratch the paint.

I remember reading about how the compliance plate on Australian SV650's were rivetted onto the chassis...right next to a warning sticker saying "Do not drills holes in chassis"

sunshine and Eucalyptus oil did it for me, with a plastic card.