Originally Posted by
trailangel
What I mean by stupid....Black anodized stem with scratches needs the Sharpie...... silver anodized or bare... just polish it out.
In my experience, it is much harder to actually scratch hard anodized stuff, and silver anodized stuff is a different color silver than what you get when you try to polish out the scuff. To my eyes, the silver is more likely to look bad from the same amount of wear.
But you can strip all the anodizing off down to bare metal and it looks similar to the silver anodized part - just never quite the same.