Originally Posted by
T-Mar
Chromovelato is the generic Italian terminology for applying a transluscent colour coat over chrome plating.
Aha! That was it. Thank you for correcting me.
Also, thank you for my new favorite word. It trips lovingly off the tongue.
Plus, thank you for shoving me down a new slippery slope. I've been googling chromovelato and now have a new grail bike. Life will not be right until I nab a Colnago Arabesque Gentleman. I suppose for an internet forum to be worth anything, it must make you hypermanic for something you had no idea existed two minutes earlier.