White lettered tires and paint pens

[Mickeymoe]

I've always liked the look of white lettered tires on motorcycles. While my Metzelers are brand new (maybe 100 miles), I bought blackwalls and now that the bike is almost complete white letters would really set off the wheels. I've looked into "tire lettering pens" on Ebay and everyone is selling them. However, they appear to be standard paint markers that the sellers have re-branded as tire pens.

Does anyone have experience adding white letters to their blackwall tires?

P.S. I don't plan on hitting any curbs, so scraping them off is not a concern. However, it seems to me that the paint must be able to flex to stay on the rubber. It will be a time-consuming job since each wheel would have to come off and be put on a bench where it could be addressed in a position conducive to a good result. So if anyone has tried this successfully or un-successfully it would save me a ton of work.

Thanks, Mark

 

[Guest]

Way back in the 70s, I did it on my car tires. Very time consuming, but it looked nice. At that time, it was an actual pen for lettering tires. I've thought about it for my Mustang, and came across these sites:

https://www.tirestickers.com/

[url]http://tredwear.com/product-category/cycleatv/
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[Hayabuser]

It looks cool initially but it dirties and fades pretty quickly. I did it to my first car when I was a teenager and it was an ongoing process until I bought real white letter tires for it.

They might have better products now however... my experience is from the 1980's.

 

[chuck hahn]

They make letter coloring stick for the real raised letter tires..least the did back in the 80s when I had BF Goodrich raised letters on my Camaro

 

[Mickeymoe]

Interesting on the tire stickers Deuce- never thought about gluing letters on. I guess you'd just have to find enough flat tire sidewall that doesn't already have raised black letters.....

 

[GS1150Pilot]

Never liked RWL on tires.

 

[Guest]

Never liked RWL on tires.

Maybe it's an age thing. RWL tires showed you had some money and could afford them over blackwalls. I always liked the way they looked. I kind of like the RYL (yellow) ones now.

 

[Guest]

Maybe it's an age thing. RWL tires showed you had some money and could afford them over blackwalls. I always liked the way they looked. I kind of like the RYL (yellow) ones now.

Ooooooooo, NASCAR style.