Braze on adapter, would you...

[Mortiroloboy]

fit one that matched the rest of the groupset colour, or a black one? I have recently purchased a lovely Ribble 7005 frame in M3 Blue, very nice paint job. The only braze on adapter I could get at the time from my LBS was a silver Sh..i Shi... Shim... Shima... ShimaNO one, which quite frankly looks horrible, so I'm going to get a proper one from my LBS.

My question, would you get a silver (natural alluminum) one, or a black (anodised) one?

Silver would match the rest of the groupset, but on my best bike the FD Braze on adapter is black.

What would you lot do?

 

[Bigtwin]

Assuming you are a man of purity and taste, and therefore going to get a Campy one to match the rest of the groupset, then silver is the aesthete's choice.

 

[lukesdad]

Don t matter what it looks like does it work ?...........Snobs !

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Assuming you are a man of purity and taste, and therefore going to get a Campy one to match the rest of the groupset, then silver is the aesthete's choice.

Well yes, naturally, hence my oblique reference to a 'proper' one

Don t matter what it looks like does it work ?...........Snobs !

Yes it does matter, the thing does its intended job, but it does not look very pretty, where the allen bolt goes through at the back the two ends don't overlap, so there is a gurt big thread on show.


Silver (natural finish) it is then.