Your right Ash, it is a matter of taste and you ain't got none
I wouldn't mind if all Honda chrome was consistent, mudguards like that lever chrome and you'd have been complaining to hell and back, some is bright and how it should be and some is dull as dishwater and no one says hang on, that's a crap finish mate.
We had some Suzuki tanks coming out of the crates with sand under the paint, just because it comes like that doesn't make it right. To me it smacks of that's how it was and that's how it's got to be, again no offense but I can find loads of 750K0s and they all look the same, I'd much sooner one showed some individuality as all the same is boring. I think that's why stuff like Rickman and Phil Read reps are so popular, they don't look the same as the rest.
You think chroming companies won't do it because it's not bright chrome, I think they won't do it because it isn't really chrome at all, chrome is like lacquer, it's transparent, what you see is the undercoat, usually nickel., god knows what is under that lever arm. If they gave customers a finish like that back they'd go out of business quick I reckon.
