Shirts

I bought my stainless steel lines from Galfer...They was cool enough to send me a couple of t-shirts..they are really cool shirts..

Well the point im getting @ is this...Somebody mention seeing someone with an xj and thought man that could be some one fom the site...This is one way a person would know if the xj rider was from the site.

Well I for one will wear anyones t-shirt who gives good buisness..and IMHO

This site gives good service as well..now

Where do I buy my xjbikes.com T-shirt, Ill take 2 thank you and after my son sees them he,ll want a couple too im sure...Ridz 8)

 

dont want this to get lost without getting a reply 8)

 

Tee Shirts

 

Ok scrape now you have me over here slobbering uncontrollably...

Why do you do this to me oh why..

Ill take 2 please short sleeve if possible, no wait one short sleeve one long...


clicking my heels three times, its not working...DOH..

Good stuff there scrape....Good dog! :wink:

 

You know it sounds like a nightmare but maybe we could get a large order for these and get ery one a shirt or two...etc.etc

just a thought!

 

I drew up a design in photoshop and then went to cafepress.com and uploaded the design. It's simple...easy...not "cheap" but its not spendy either.

So if someone took the time to come up with a design or something along those lines, i'd suggest cafepress.

EDIT: The design was for my 4wd club.

 

Meighty,

Do they charge you for the design set up, or just the overpriced clothing? What was the setup charge if I may ask? A Club I'm in is looking at doing something like this.

 

Go get some Iron On transfer paper at an office supply store.
Use a graphics program to take your artwork, logo, etc and mirror it.
Size it to fit the paper, buy inexpensive T-Shirt, Print your design on the special Iron On transfer paper.
Fire up Iron,(ask your Mom!) Iron on transfer, wear.

If you want an XJ Club design, let's open a competition to see who comes up with the best design.

Dan

 

I think I might mess aroundd with this a little this week and see what I come up with..... The wife is out of town so I can "slack" from the Honey-do list for awhile......

 

http://www.cafepress.com/buy/coota/-/pv ... pt_/c_360/

Here is a link to some a design that i came up with. It's free to sign up and free to upload designs. I only have 2 designs and you can only have 1 design per store. So basicly you have 1 webpage per design. Not a huge deal. They way they make their money is when people buy your design they get paid on the gross profit. You have the option to up the price X% so you can make money too. I personally don't for my club.

The nice thing a about it, is that you dont have to worry about getting the shirts, printing, selling and then shipping. It's all taken care of. I've ordered a few shirts and they are of decent quality. I dont think their prices are too outrageous either.

 

I can do custom screenprinting.

 

I would certinaly be intrested in buying a couple

I like scrapes idea "logo and your name" front Photo and yamaha on back.
or a sketch of a general XJ instead of a photo

 

Now That'sWhatI'mTalkin'About!!
Who can get us deals on Pocket T-Shirts??
Nice logo on the back, smaller one on the pocket or above it.
Could be real nice.

I'm up for a couple or three, at least.

Kevin, what kind of work would it be to add members individual names or better yet, their "handle" here at the site?

Dan

 

It would be very costly to do names for everyone here. It would require burning a screen for each name. I suppose you could "customize" it yourself with some iron-on letters. If I tried real hard, I could probably find all the materials to do these for $12-15 a piece. Let's see what kind of interest we have before I get myself in a situation.

 

You could make "custom" Ts with less effort at cafepress. It would cost a few more dollars. $18 +shipping.

 

Count me in, if the design is kept clean and not all gawdy.

Would be nice to have some kind of fancy font logo that said something like..... XJ. or MAXIM.

or maybe XJ on the front and Maxim or Seca on the back depending on what you ride.

I think 18.00 is a bit too much.

 

If we can get a set pattern shirt , we could all then personalize are own shirts after we purchase them.

The Idea is to get the web site out there and to be able to identify each other..

When some one gets a shirt made pm im ready to purchase.

It dont have to be an award winning pattern, something simple is good enough.

Ridz

 

Web Page Name
in keeping with the do-it-yourself theme

 

How about this. I could print them and ship them for $18 per, including shipping, and $5 from each will be donated to xjbikes.com or $12 with no donation + shipping. Someone else will have to do the graphic design work, my copy of illustrator wont run off the clock...

Again, I have not commited to doing this 100%....yet.

 

I can help with the graphic design. What format would be best, kevin? Illustrator?

 

I would buy some for $12 let me know when they are ready..

 

Moderators:
I sense the beginning of an annual design competition for the artwork used on the years XJBikes.com fundraising T-shirt.
Please create a site where finished designs can be uploaded, then we can have a vote on the preferred design for the year.
I'd say give everyone a deadline, and then we can announce the vote.

This could be a lot of FUN!

I'm definately up for a couple of shirts at KevinEleven's announced price of $18 w/shipping - which includes a $5 per shirt donation to XJBikes.com.

Let's get this going, OK?

Dan

 

I'm in on the contest, I've dabbled a bit with banners and avatars in the past and think it would be fun.

 

The iron ons suck, at least I think. The quality isn't what you expect when you print them out. If there is a contest, I am in on it. I have designed many a t-shirts in my past. Just tell me where and when.

 

I really don't like iron ons either...what are the stips, if any, to this contest?

 

To: getr dun!

 

No pictures on shirts please, that is incredibly tachy IMO. Just a simple small logo over left breast pocket area, and maybe some whitty phrase or something on the back like "Rick says 'Check your brushes!'"

 

LMAO!! :lol:
Puleese, NO! - Everybody who sees that will think we're a bunch of Dentists or sumpin'!!

I hope we can get a Moderator or someone IN CHARGE to chime in here and get this ball ROLLING!! I'm psycho, oops, I mean Psyched!!

Dan

 

I think the Rick phrase would be a GREAT inside joke and get folks laughing (not to mention the questions it would be bound to raise).

 

Yea "say" that is pretty catchy only a true xjer would know that (check your brushes) is a xjsite Phrase from the wizard! Right out of the books :wink:



Lets start takin these polls! 8)

 

Here's one idea I came up with

 

I'm pretty sure the tuning fork logo is trademarked.

The XJ bikes on the front looks good, although I'm probably going to only be doing 1 color. I can probably find diffrent color shirts, and do darker inks on them-- black, grey, blue, red, green, maybe an orange. We'll have to see. If we can get 30 or so commitments, it'd be a go for me.

 

You know: Rick says "Check your brushes" gives me a thought.

As a community we're as much about maintaining and restoring these machines as we are about riding them. How about XJ bikes logo on breast and some parts on back (brushes, emulsion tubes, carb slides, valve shims and of course a fuse block).

 

I'm thinking this thread is sorta like the old discussion on a site logo.....

http://www.xjbikes.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=487.html

 

How about putting this on the backside, seeing how pretty much all of us have done this one time or another:



I can photochop the Yamaha Motor USA print out of the pic, and its a single color, making it cheaper to create the t-shirts. Maybe put something like, "Seafoam helped my ED! -- Rick" somewhere below it?

 

I like Mumbles design, with the big tuning fork logo on the back, and the xjbikes on the front. Maybe a lawyer type can chime in, but I believe it's ok to use the trademark provided it's for your own personal use, and not for profit?

 

Im with dispatch on this one, except I would like it to say xj wizard says check your brushes..

We all know who coined that phrase

Good stuff there mumbles and we could always sub something else for the tuning forks or change it in some fashion... maybe even put the brushes on there in some kinda fashion.just my .2 cents..

 

How about mumbles front and this on the back. (can be made sharper if need be)



I was looking for a pict of a bike front on drawn in this style

Ohh put me down for two shirts (add postage to the uk)

 

I'm just playing around but this one came out kind of cool....looks better bigger.

 

What is that on the shirt, scrape?

 

I like this idea a lot,even cheap skate me would buy a couple of these

 

Scrapes, I really like the close up motor and exhaust, great job, but I think you should use the XJ bikes swirl logo instead of your XJ lettering.

 

I'll definitely buy a shirt or two, a tee and a sweatshirt. I would stay away from putting an image of a bike on the shirt simply because our bikes all look so different. I, for example, wouldn't be as interested in a shirt with a pic of a Seca on it since I ride a Maxim.

I would also stay away from anything that could possibly be considered copyright infringement. While it may be permissible to use logos and such "for your own use", the discussion here is in regard to selling the shirts to members. That goes beyond what is considered "personal use", even if you are not making a profit.

That said, let's do it!

 

The carbs make a nice "backbone" kinda look on the back.

 

I like what Kishkumen did with the exploded carb on back, even if it is on the front .

Now just do it with a Hitachi...........

 

I can't do our logo in the black background because it has black in it.

 

ROTFLMFAO! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

DING,DING,DING..Ladies and gentlemen we have our winner.

Im really diggin that one scrape!

Dont know about wearing a pic of rick on my shirt though :lol: !

Man that just made my day a little better thanx scrape :wink:

~Ridz~

 

That was nice...thanks Ridz!

 

If anybody has and ideas for a theme/layout or pics that they would like used, post them up. The members here with these imaging programs can work with them and need your ideas also. Feel free to change a submitted work and maybe build off it also. I would need to clean up anything that I do anyway as a finished product.