• I am a big fan of anodised aluminium for colourful accents but I usually feel like they are best reserved for "dots" or "splatters" of colour rather than "blocks". It easily becomes tacky if takes on too much visual mass in my opinion.

    List of good dots:

    • Screws
    • Stemcaps
    • Bottom bracket shells
    • Headsets
    • Seatpost clamps
    • Bar ends
    • Quick releases
    • Tubeless valves
    • Jokey wheels
    • Cable ends

    List of dots that can be good:

    • Brake calipers/bodies
    • Discs
    • Pedals (sometimes)
    • Hubs (rarely)
    • Chainrings (rarely)

    List of blocks that are almost always tricky to pull off:

    • Whole cranksets
    • Whole stems
    • Handlebars
    • Seatpost
    • Rims
    • Brake levers
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