Vinyl Wrapping a Motorcycle Beginners Guide

My top tips & workflow for beginners thinking about vinyl wrapping their motorcycle. From tools required all the way to wrapping techniques.

🛒 WRAP SUPPLIES FROM THIS VIDEO
3M Vinyl

Heat Gun

Knifeless Tape

Squeegee

Isopropyl Alcohol

Razor Blades

📷 SOCIAL

⚙ MY KIT

📖 CHAPTERS
0:00 Why You Should Wrap Your Bike
0:27 My Experience (A.K.A Disclaimer)
1:14 What You Will Need
2:44 Part Removal
3:15 Cleaning
3:49 Basic Wrapping Techniques
8:19 Mudguard Wrapping
10:38 Basic Principles Recap

[yenshie]

Great job for beginners. ✅PRO TIP: pieces were you used heat should be post heated afterwards. This means heating the warped pieces to about 212 degrees F (100 degrees C). The perfect tempurature differs from brand to brand so be sure to check a technical sheet to know the sweet spot. You can check the tempurature with a laser meter but a simple way to know if its heated sufficiently is to keep heating and applying pressure until you see the underlying glue pattern. This will mean you effectively break the memory function and fully break the glue lines that the vinyl has. For Avery this is a honey comb pattern, for 3M its a normal checkerdboard pattern.

[andyortlieb]

I've watched dozens of videos about wrapping, and yours is by far my favorite. Thank you for making this

[betolicious]

I’m glad I decided to watch a video before wrapping my bike. In my mind I was planning on sanding down the fairings I wanted to wrap 😭

[CallipHall]

You did a great job explaining this, and made it approachable to so many. Now we are all going to be in our garage just thinking about possible design choices.

[chrisgraham]

Thanks for the tutorial. Thanks for showing how the cutting tape is used, which nobody else seems to show. I appreciate the information for wrapping smaller items or sections of a vehicle. I would probably never attempt a full vehicle wrap or even a hood, but wrapping is an excellent option for small feature pieces. I had two color painted pillars on my SUV that separate between glossy black tinted window panels. Wrapping the pillars in a gloss black vinyl looks very similar to the glass and gives the vehicle a "floating roof effect", now that the glass looks like it wraps around the back of the vehicle. I also had gloss black painted pillars between the glass of the front and back doors and on the driver side there was a small dent/dimple, which was very shallow, but just enough to catch the light to accent the dent. Filling the dent with spot putty was adequate to fill the dimple and wrapping over it made the dimple completely disappear without having to do bodywork and paint. The passenger side was also wrapped to match. The possible uses for wrap for vehicles and other items or equipment is only limited by the imagination.

[TyoVlog]

"average biker who wants to change the appearance of their bike for a reasonable cost". That's literally why I always wrap my bike instead of paint it 🤣

[crashman]

Not a bad job, I've done plenty of wrapping (I'm a signwriter) you could have mentioned "post heating" the vinyl to lock on the shape you're wrapped. Well done :)

[chrispewkreme]

Just my tips: start with the flatter easier surfaces. Save the tank or curbed surfaces for after you've made good progress.

If it's your first time, this will really save time and get you practice before you get to the tank.

[officialpaolosison]

Super humbling experience. The fact that I decided to wrap my Ducati is mind blowing, curviest bike known to man it’s so hard to get the insides 😂

[ZeroKitsunei]

Pretty good vid. The only thing I would say differently would be. The part about doing it in pieces. I always try to do whatever i'm wrapping in one piece. Like on the fender, I could maybe see doing the horns separately. But the cool thing about vinyl is when you hit it with heat it will p much do whatever you want. Most of the time just rubbing it with your fingers will do the job. I try to use the heat gun as little as possible, till the end. It's a lot more work, but it looks better and is a lot easier to take care of after the fact. You don't have to worry about the seams too much if you say take it for a wash.

[NONAKT]

Anybody else looking to learn how to wrap their bike they don’t have yet lol

[geofn]

i remember walking past your bike in the uk when you were going to falmouth i wish i met you

[BikingVikingHH]

You definitely could have covered that first piece in one vinyl sheet. Just heat the vinyl up and stretch it way more than you are. By pulling it you can expand it in certain areas, allowing you to put it into concave spots

[calepvanars]

You did a good job man I'm just starting this but I learned quite a bit from you especially about the cutting cape

[TheBudgetingBiker]

This will come in handy. I do wonder if anyone’s wrapped a larger cruiser. Would be interesting to see if anyone has done that. Saved to a watch list for future reference 😊

[LukebeingLuke]

Just about to wrap mine, so this comes in handy!

[neilhamill]

I never really considered doing that to my bike. Now you have me thinking.

[DetroitNinja]

Thank you for this video. I'll wrap my bike and use your video as a guide.

[TheHumanFro]

Damn, i wanted to learn how to wrap my MT09 trim... and here you are, wrapping an MT09. Legend, thanks for the information!

[mts]

Thank you for the lesson and that Cutting tape is Awesome 👍👍