Make your own Dirt Bike Graphics and Motorcycle Decals w/ Cricut!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- Hello! I recently wanted to add some graphics to my dirt bike. However I did not want to spend the $250 for custom graphics, and all of the pre printed ones for my bike are pretty basic. Because of this, I decided to make my own!
Now, this does require a device called a Cricut. Cricut's are essentially hobby craft level vinyl cutters. You can find them at Walmart, amazon, etc.. I am fortunate enough that my sister has one and let me borrow it for this project. Overall it worked really well and I only spent about $40 on this project.
While I was specifically making graphics for my dirt bike in this video, this method also works for street bike decals as well as a verities of other projects. I currently have two Cricut decals on my street bike. They have been on there for almost two years and still look brand new. My bike is garage kept though.
Thanks for watching!
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Just got a Explore 3 bundle for the sole purpose of making custom scooter decals. I like the old school racing livery on pretty much any bike 😎.
Did a killer job man!
That is awesome to hear!!! And thanks for the love! 👊
Would the explore 2 cut thick vinyl too? Or only explore 3?
I think you did a great job considering the first time I tried it I ended up with $150 worth of decals crumbled up in the trashcan
Thank you! For sure could have been better but I think it turned out okay. Glad I did not have to tear anything off. The vynl is seemingly cheap but once you start having to redo thing and buy new roles again and again, that cost can sneak up quickly.
Looks good 👍
Thank you! 😊
Nice boy
Nice is the machine you are using good enough to do oem graphics kits . Lets say for a 1994 kx 500? Or would you have to have something more advanced?
That would be hard to do for that specific bike unfortunately =(. The big draw back with a Cricut is that it can do one color of vynl at a time. Now you can do multi-color logos or graphics as long as you print each color separately and then overlay them on the bike. However, one thing that's impossible for the cruicut to do, is to fade from one color to another.
The 94 KX500 is a beautiful bike. Very 90s and it's graphics are the typical 90s era pop colors that fade from one to another. So it wouldn't work and probably a lot easier just to look for an oem replica graphics kit =(
But again depends on the oem graphics. So different from bike to bike. For something like a 2001 CR250, this method would still work because there is no color fading. At that point is just a matter of getting the right proportions.
Sorry, I should have done a better job at mentioning in the video =(
Also how do u get the dirtbike shape on the graphic
Good question! We weren't able to format the program so it would print exactly to match the countours and shapes of the bike. So instead what we did was just size the vinyl up or down to fit wherever I intended to put them. For example, the star with the long tail. I knew I wanted to put it on the upper arm of the radiator fairing. So I just measured that part before printing and found that it was 1 inch tall. So then when you go to use the program, we justed sized it up to height so that the printer/cutter would cut the vinyl at exaclty 1 inch tall. Fits perfectly then.
Now as for the + pattern on everything, we just made that as big as possible. Put it on the bike and then cut the excess off!
U should lay a thicker clear vinyl over the top of it all
What kind of vinyl do you use? Is it thicker than normal vinyl? Where can you buy it?
Great question! I use Cricut brand vynl and make sure to get the stuff that says it is for indoor AND outdoor use! I don't pay any attention to the thickness of it. As long as it is rated for outdoor, it has done very well for me.
@@localmisfit7006 thank you for your reply. This was very helpful.
@jolenewilliams7080 No worries! Thanks for the comments and Happy New Years!
Where did you get the cut files from?
Great question! I simply just used google image search for all of them. Specifically I look for .png files, which have a transparent background.
👍🏼 also how did you get your png files to Contour to the plastics? I am somewhat familiar with cricut Explore air 2 so I kind if know what to do but just the Contouring part is pretty hard
@@JT-mq1jk If you had plenty of time and were feeling very innovative you could probably measure out the parts and then use the cruicur interface to shape it to the measurements... I did not want to spend that much time on it so essentially what I did was printed each of the sheets a bit wider than the size of the piece I was going to put it on. So for like shrouds, the sheet was a lot bigger than the actually shoud, so I just covered the entire thing in pluses and cut off the excess. As for the pluses on the tailpiece and front fender' again I printer large sheets of pluses, but then cut them down to the size I wanted before I actually placed them on the bike.
What software
Cricut comes with its own software. So once you get the machine and start setting it up, you will be prompted to download their editing program on your computer.
@kalairgfx
A cricut isn't a printer, it's a vinyl cutter
You are correct. I think I was using the word "printer" just to sort of simplify it. I have since updated the description.