Speed Triple 1050 Rs - Damn Those Yellow Decals!!

Morning all.

So I've searched and I've searched and I can't find anything substantial on this one. Apologies if this is a newbie question, but I've just bought a 2021 Matt Black Speed Triple 1050 RS. I love the bike but not keen on the yellow decals or rim tape (is it tape?). I'm changing the belly pan for carbon, so that loses those ones, but want to remove the other yellow decals from the tank, front fairing and rear cowl. I've seen a number of other Triples for sale in black with them removed (as you can still see yellow on the wheels and carbon side thingys).

So, has anyone done this on here to this model/year/colour? I've got the heat gun and the WD40 (already removed all the warning labels successfully), but just a bit worried that if I lift the decals I'll find that there's something else underneath rather than just the tank/cowl/fairing!! Help!!

Many thanks in advance

 

Excellent thanks for the top tips. Funnily enough I bought a few carbon bits from CarbonFBR (heel guards, hugger and chain guard), but the hugger was on back order and the heel guards were both chipped, which was just unlucky I think, so cancelled the order. They've been helpful and happy to refund etc.

 

And I’ve sorted it tonight. Basically £10.59 of Matt vinyl off of Amazon and the wife’s grease proof paper to make the templates. Literally just covered them up with the vinyl. Looks a ton better. Nothing I can do yet about the wheels and the carbon RS bit on the side that has a touch of yellow in, but actually doesn’t look too bad. I’ve kept the silver detail/stripes to break the black which looks good in my opinion as well. Happy chappy. Still got a ton of the vinyl left and the templates so if they get tired I can quickly replace them.

 

Just as an update, I've just re-ordered as I think it might have just been an unlucky issue the first time.

 

Heres the pics of afterwards. Got the side covers on order in carbon to lose the yellow on those and will be getting some black rim tape to lose it on the wheels!

 

Cheers Joe. The camper is above the wife and kids in pecking order to be honest - just don't tell em! A hole in the ground in terms of finances, but I love her nevertheless!!

 

Cheers Joe. The camper is above the wife and kids in pecking order to be honest - just don't tell em! A hole in the ground in terms of finances, but I love her nevertheless!!

 

I hear you! I'd love to talk to the design team and find out who thought of it as a colour! Surely there must have been sign off by someone??

 

Bit of an update. Changed the side panels (to lose the yellow flash), heel guards and lower chain guard this morning. All the carbon bits from CarbonFBR who were brill and really quality parts. All fitted easily.

So only remaining thing is the bright yellow wheel rims. Tried some rim tape this morning but it looked rubbish (supposed to be black and only reflective when lights shone etc, but actually reflected all the time and unless you get it perfectly round it looked cheap), so need to think again!

Hoping the SC projects exhaust will be delivered in the next week or so to open up the back end and I’ve got the carbon hugger and upper chain guard to fit at the same time.

 

.....and finally managed to find some decent gloss black rim tape to lose the yellow wheels!!

 

For anyone that’s interested this is the tape I found and used abs found it really easy to put on, delivered quickly and matched the wheels perfectly:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BLACK-10...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0

promise I’ll stop rambling on about yellow decals now!! Lol

 

ok, so maybe one more final pic.......with the new exhaust......carbon hugger goes on on Thursday..

 

Sorry for the delay!!

 

Also changed the upper chain guard as well. All definitely done now…maybe, I think, possibly.