Originally Posted by LWaB
Dia-Compe did it deliberately. The black and gold RGC was a special edition, mine looked pretty good ... until the gold was polished away.
This brakeset apparently was set up as black/silver--no flecks of gold anywhere on the silver finish--came off of an 80s Nishiki Olympic bike--not high end, but interesting look! Any others out there, or did someone go through the time/effort to set them up that way?