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CXP33's are immediately super flashy because they are deep rims, any informed thief who can actualy tell they are mavic straight away know theyve hit a jackpot.
Open Pro's have nice shape, shiny machined sidewalls, nice shiny eyelets , they are blatantly a modern high quality rim.
Do make a bike look undesirable you have to make it look like it has old school beat up steel rims or single wall plain aluminium like halfrauds bikes.
You could remove the anodising from the rim, leaving it bare metal which will form a protective but visually unattractive oxide coating. - Would make it look like a cheap rim.
Aside from that, something else that can be done on any bike part which is surprisingly unpopular is writing your name on everything.
Just take something sharp & pointy and etch your name onto your bike parts.