[copied from a previous post of mine]
okay, there's an awesome sticky thread at the top of the Single Speed Fixed Gear forum called the
*RESOURCE THREAD: Single Speed and Fixed Gear*

if you click on it, there's only one post, and it gives you links to all sorts of awesome threads from times past about how to do stuff to a bike, compare bikes, find tools/parts/accesories/etc, etc etc.

one of those links (it might be the first one) is called
The DIY thread


if you click that, it takes you to an awesome thread where someone compiled a whole bunch of links to threads that tell you how to do cool stuff to your bike. one of those threads is [de-anodizing parts].

granted, when i write it out like this, it seems like a lot of hoops to jump through, but really, it's easy, and everything's essentially in one place. so check that sticky thread out.

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