Originally Posted by
gugie
In my experience, the vast majority of "rust issues", aren't.
If you want to squirt something up in your tubes to arrest it, go right ahead.
I'd like to see some pictures of frames so rusted out that they failed.
Top tube on my old 531 '87 Trek 400 rusted through and cracked. I'm pretty sure it spent time as a trainer bike with a previous owner.