Old 02-15-20, 09:23 AM
  #15  
dedhed
SE Wis
 
dedhed's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 10,516

Bikes: '68 Raleigh Sprite, '02 Raleigh C500, '84 Raleigh Gran Prix, '91 Trek 400, 2013 Novara Randonee, 1990 Trek 970

Mentioned: 40 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2747 Post(s)
Liked 3,401 Times in 2,058 Posts
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.
dedhed is offline