Man, I need to try some of that Mother's Metal Polish. I use Never Dull currently and it is good, but it doesn't work miracles like that or, anecdotally, like I've heard in another instance.

Here, finally, is my 1988 Masi Nuova Strada that I picked up at the beginning of October, originally put 10s partial carbon Campy on, decided it was not working visually (though it functioned just fine), and ended up taking it back to it's period look, just with a few subtle updates. In place of the Ice Grey 7400 DA DT shifters and RD, I put a 7900 DT shifter set and 7800 RD, both of which are high silver polish that match the chrome fork. High polish Mavic MA-2 rims laced to 7403 8s hubs. 7400 FD and brake calipers. And of course I sold my 7400 brake levers already, so (aesthetically) thematically-correct RX100 Super SLR levers are the very nice stand-ins (FYI, later Shimano BL600s are this exact black/light grey/silver lever combo with just "SHIMANO" on the lever blade, so I don't feel so bad). Cinelli stem clamping Cinelli 64-42 bars. The bike is gorgeous with nearly-flawless paint and truly flawless decals. It rides impossibly smooth and I can't wait for better weather to get it out more.

Before: A very interesting mix of Shimano and Campagnolo parts, mismatching rims, IRD 6s cassette, JTek shiftmate....gahhhh, everything was pretty but all over the place.



After: You Portland guys want to see this in March???