Black probably look better on your's with the blacked out bits when it was black but now its grey I don't know. Same on the new Roadsters I think Triumph copied your's when they decided to paint some parts black. Then again a bike with everything black no chrome at all with polished silver headers and a black muffler, kinda like a rat with a silver tooth, now there's an idea. I spent about an hour trying to polish the gold off the stainless. Got it a bit better but need to spend more time on it. I'll leave it like it is for a while and see if it gets worse. If it doe's I'll learn to live with it.