It wasn’t what I expected, but interesting. Wouldn’t sand blasting do a quicker job of getting past the factory anodized finish? I barely remember Shimano, or someone else, had a white groupset. That was strange to look at. I think he got a really amazing look out of them. It would seem that clear coating them would save the new sparkling finish. (Seems like a lot of work to have to constantly polish it)
Not whole group sets but in the 90s I had powder coated yellow cranks (I want to say sidewinder) and Hippo vee brakes. Both these came in a myriad of colours, plus yellow grip part of gtripshift shifters. I’m pretty sure they’d have been white if I’d wanted that… Although the 90s was all about bright colours so maybe not.
So almost colour coordinated entire group set.
However, the style, quality and looks were so far from Dura Ace (or LX if being honest)!
I’ve always had a soft spot for the Mavic “starfish” crankset. The last American to officially win a Tour de France won one of his on this crankset. 
I’ve vote many Campagnolo cranksets as the greatest looking ever. Honestly the polish on that Dura Ace crankset looks horrible in comparison. Because DA is cast aluminum and Campagnolo is forged?
Yep. Totally agree on the Mavic crank set, that’s my vote for best looking crankset of all time.
I’m still using that Mavic crank on my trainer bike!
Little known / long forgotten fact but Lemond rode Mavic when he won the Tour in ‘89.
first cool thing to come outa GCN in ages! haha thats pretty awesome
Remember the 90s and the days of funky CNC cranks?
Had a green anodized pair of these that were super cool right up until the right crankarm snapped in half. I came like a millimeter away from impaling my calf on the razor sharp dagger that got left behind after the top part snapped off and stayed attached to my shoe. Back to Ritchey cod-forged from there! (Should be cold-forged, but I liked cod-forged too much to fix the typo).
There was a limited edition shiny GRX 11-speed crank you could get if you had the connections to even know about them. A buddy of mine got some.
Our own @mcneese.chad got one of the groups and slapped it on his to gravel bike.
Perfection!
Yeah, the mate has a bike collection that rivals that of @mcneese.chad. Seems like that was a criterion to get an allotment.
For a half second I thought that was one of those ‘burnt titanium’ look finishes. Am I the only one that’s gotten tired of that look? For the longest time I couldn’t get anything in that finish, and now am just over it… 
And yikes for the broken crank arm! A local guy snapped his egg beaters and had the busted end gouge into his calf. He said he ‘lost a lot of blood’ and it ruined his shoe. Hope I never break any of my drive trains. I was getting nervous over my Ultegra crankset on my Roubaix. I took it off to clean it and saw the infamous gaps where it was starting to come apart. Hope whatever magic glue they used on the replacement doesn’t fail too.
Surprised that GCN video didn’t mention clear coating the whole thing, or at least the arms.
And there have been some incredibly amazing looking bike parts out there. The Campy Delta brakes were sexy as heck. Actually almsot anything Campy was drool worthy. 
(The shop I worked at had one of the original Campy corkscrews. What a beautiful work of art! I have a small corkscrew collection and some aren’t used because they are so amazing to look at and a Campy would be one definitely for eye candy mostly.
