The decals are not supposed to be peeled off the backing before you apply them. If your using original Honda stickers, your suppposed to put the whole thing soapy water. good idea to have a sponge handy. You then soak the whole thing in the water for a minute or two.
Position the sticker, (keeping it wet with the sponge) get rid of any air bubbles using the sponge. once in place and your happy that the air bubbles are out and that it's in the right position, let it sit for a minute or two, till it "sticks" you then slowly peel off the backing paper.
If you can make up a small squeegie, (piece of stiff rubber) you then get rid of any further air bubbles.
The sticker itself is to delicate off the backing paper and can rip or stretch if you try pulling it around to much.
As long as you keep the sticker wet you can keep moving it around. The ones at the rear are the worst because of the length of the sticker and the shape of the covers.

 

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You have me nervious now. I am doing two sets of complete fairings right now for my yellow F4. Well they are at the body shop. So when they get back I plan on two this twice. I don't look forward to it. Do you know how hard it is to find a "good" body shop that will paint a bike around here? I went in there with the panels ready for them to do the body work. In other words all the decals and foam was off and all the sticky stuff was cleaned off.
Just wondering, who's decals did you get, what do you think of them? How do they compare to the Honda ones, if they are not Hondas.

 

I went with servicehonda.com they seemed to have pretty good prices. Shipping is a nine dollar min. and it takes 7-10 business days min. but you save a ton compared to going straight to Honda. the front, tank and tail decals were just under a hundred dollars. The side panels will run around three hundred. But its all oem.

 

Dude, it's like the difference beteen "Butter" & "I can't believe it's not Butter" Being original, Honda charges more, and you can pick up nearly a whole set of non originals for the price of the Honda's. But I have noticed on some (and mean some) that the colours are sometimes not right, more noticable if your just replacing the one, but a whole set should be no wukkin furries.

 

Would anyone care to PM me about any of there experiences with the after market decals? I am not repainting the tank or front fender. The rest though is getting the "road rash" taken care of. So of course I am concerned with the yellow wings on the side fairings matching the yellow on the tank.