I stripped hard anodizing from a pair of rims once.
Never again. Once you remove the anodizing, you'll have a mottled mess, and you'll want to polish the parts. Polishing will hold up fine until you sweat on them, and then they'll look mottled again.
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If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.