Want to paint/write/sticker/whatever a quote to my bike

[iandunn]

There a quote from an Over the Rhine song that I'd like to put on my bike somehow:

The road is my redeemer
I never know just what on earth I'll find
In the faces of a stranger
In the dark and weary corners of a mind

What would be a good way to do it? Painting would obviously be a good choice, but there's no way I'd be able to paint the letters on well. I could probably make a good looking image in Photoshop and print it out on a high quality color printer, but how would get it to stay on the bike (and it would need to be laminated or something to keep it clean).

Would getting a blank sticker and printing onto that be the best option? That way I could just print new ones and replace them as they get dirty.

[EDub]

just use a post-it note


but seriously, the clear adhesive sounds like then best idea can prolly get some a staples or something

[Jake D]

I bet some body would air brush that on there for you for a song.

Hey, Airbrush, would you charge a song to airbrush this song on his GS?

Ask Airbrush.  I bet that he could make it look cool.   Maybe make it look like it was carved out of stone (like a slab of stone), and is floating to the surface of your tank, like a rock in a stream, with the letters of the words beginning to shine bright gold, brought to life by some hidden and forgotten molten magic of old, driving you on to that dark corner of your mind where only the words and the road echo in your ears.

[juno]

cut a piece of dry-erase board to fit the tank.  Then you can change the quote when you want to.  For example, "I'm just here to get laid" :mrgreen:

[juno]

I bet that he could make it look cool. Maybe make it look like it was carved out of stone (like a slab of stone), and is floating to the surface of your tank, like a rock in a stream, with the letters of the words beginning to shine bright gold, brought to life by some hidden and forgotten molten magic of old, driving you on to that dark corner of your mind where only the words and the road echo in your ears.

Damn, that's pretty profund.  But I've never seen a floating rock. :dunno:

[Jake D]

Floating to the surface rather in a metophorical sense of the phrase.  Like lava floats to the surface of the ground, which I'm sure you've seen, lava being rock and disproving your comment.  Any other way of putting it wouldn't have given the same impression.  Emerging, rather, through the surface of the tank.  

Ah, hell.  Rocks don't float.  Pumace?  No?

[juno]

I was just kidding!

Your description was very painterly.  I could really see it.

[pantablo]

make a photoshop of what you want and have a sign shop cut vinyl decals out for you. rub them on and they're good to go.

[airbrush]

any sign shop can cut that outta vinyl for yah...i can do it for you as well...but with shipping etc it would be cheaper just to get it done locally....

[davipu]

or you could just get a beer and a sharpie, repeat untill it looks good

[Mat]

or you could just get a beer and a sharpie, repeat untill it looks good

a friend of mine put flames on his car that way

['04gs500f]

so did he make a  criminal mischief report the next day when he forgot who did it?

[Jake D]

any sign shop can cut that outta vinyl for yah...i can do it for you as well...but with shipping etc it would be cheaper just to get it done locally....

Okay, let's assume that he was local (to your shop, that is).  What would something like that cost, sir?  

I bet I couldn't guess withing $500 what that would cost.   But I'm curious.

['04gs500f]

vinyl is really cheap =/
and for what you want to do....
REALLY cheap

[raylarrabee]

if you're dealing with text, I would compose it in a vector graphics program, like Adobe Illustrator.  Raster images (made up uf individual pixels) do not resize well.  Vector graphics are infinitely scalable.  If you don't have access to illustrator, just put it together in Word and take it to the printer--any print shop will have Illustrator or something similar.

If scaling the image isn't an issue, they can likely print from a raster image (jpg, bmp, tiff, etc).

good luck!  Post some pix when you get finsished