Originally Posted by Kimmo

If you can't decide to like the look of it (I've always thought it looks pretty cool}, you could hit the brake tracks with an orbital sander or something and remove the anodising altogether.

Bare aluminium is significantly grippier than that old school hardox surface, particularly in the wet, but it'll wear significantly faster too. The hardox is great protection against the awful galling you get when a little bit of grit stuck in the brake pad snowballs into a chunk of aluminium.