I took a chance on this Bridgestone MB-5, as the previous owner, for some reason, wrapped most of the frame with black electrical tape. The frame felt undamaged, but I assumed I would find something he felt the need to conceal. Peeling off the tape reminded me of pulling up the carpet from our hardwood floors after we bought our house--a sense of the unknown that made each bit of newly revealed frame somehow more exciting than it should have been. After all was said and done, I thought touch-up paint looked a lot better than black tape . Since it already had a nice set of slicks, and I had a Blackburn rack lying around from another project, I decided to commuterize this one...