Wow. That’s a lot of labels.

I’m beginning to notice that there are two schools of thought among bike manufactures on how to incorporate their names into the graphics they put on their bikes.  On the one hand, you’ve got the traditionalists.  The traditionalists like to put the company name on both sides of the down tube, with some sort of a logo on the front of the head tube and that’s pretty much it.  On the other hand, you’ve got the folks that seemed to have watched too many nascar races and plaster the bike with as many logos as possible – usually all referencing the company that made the bike.

My biggest complaint about the “nascar-esque” group is that, on professional race cars, those logos represent the sponsors that have paid money to have their logos there.  Now, given that no one else has ever chipped in money for one of my bikes, then my bikes have only one sponsor – me.  So, if I wanted to really make my bike look like a race car, shouldn’t it be plastered with my name only?  After all, I’m my own title sponsor – no?

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