I'm not talking about insertion marks or poorly finished seat tubes. The post is new anyway, so there'll be no marks to speak of unless somebody shorter than me decided to ride my bike without my permission. I was asking whether a logo was silkscreened or etched.

Well, I like Nitto's simple finish as it is, but it isn't quite that deep. Put another way: The Internet is close at hand and easy to use. My interest in having either a whole logo or none at all was enough to post the question, but not high enough for me to alter a nice post I might want to sell later.

I do plan to buy the post and use it regardless, but it isn't a silly thing. I wish people would stop the practicality games with bicycles. All of us want our bikes to look the way we want them to look, and differences between people's approaches to appearance are a matter of degree rather than of kind.

The only differences between the bikes I build up and the model cars I used to build is that I ride the bikes. But the build is every bit as important. If it didn't matter, I'd just call BikesDirect- I'm not a racing pro.