Originally Posted by
Salamandrine
I vote leave it alone. Grinding stuff off is not going to be an aesthetic improvement. Let it be. If you ride it as a fixie for a while, a redundant shifter stop is going to be a lot less of an aesthetic hit that grinding it off, ruining the the history of the bike, and adding some cheap powder coat or whatever will destroy it completely. I'm not hardly a purist, but in this case, what's the point?
I'm not sure about cheap powder coating. As mentioned, I'll be painting it at my uncle's professional paint booth with automotive paint, and plan to do a scheme involving at least three colors, as well as lug and box lining. The problem would be going through all that trouble to build my dream road/path fixed gear bike with six little unused pokey things still on the frame.
But like I said, perhaps I just need to find a more suitable candidate.