I bought a ZX-11 years ago from a "older" customer of mine. He rode pretty mildly, but for some reason (he was a little strange) covered that bike from stem to stern in the kind of B.S. stickers you can find at motorcycle parts counters. Everything from Calvin pissing on a suzuki to any kind of motorcycle related product that had a sticker. Even had them on the windshield. It had lived outside for a while in Texas before he moved to the Northwest. If he wasn't more or less GIVING the bike to me, I probably would have passed just because I wasn't sure how to get it all off the otherwise decent bodywork.

A decent heatgun on the low setting helps soften it, but worked BEST for me was a few cans of "PB Blaster" pentrating oil. Douche the area in question, and douche a couple of thick paper towels and just keep the stuff in contact with the sticker for a bit. If you can get the edge up just a bit where it can attack the adhesive, all the better. It basically turns the adhesive into a gooey mess, but it gets better. After you get the body of the sticker off, spray with more PB and keep rubbing with the PB soaked paper towel and then start buffing off with a cotton cloth/diaper. It's messy, but eventually you won't be able to tell it was ever there. Fingernails work well during this process too to break up the adhesive. You'll have sore fingers if you have a lot of area to cover, but it works. I know I must have a picture of it somewhere covered in stickers, but I'm not sure where...There had to have been 400-500 stickers on that old Ninja when I got it!


-R