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Do you ride a steel bike on gritted roads?
Andre Jute:
Do you ride your Thorn or other steel bike on gritted roads? With what effects from the salt?
Hobbes
jags:
there'#s way to much snow over here at present (ireland) anyway my baby always gets cleaned after a ride and it lives indoors always ;)
julk:
I have full mudguards and mudflaps fitted. They do a good job of keeping most of the muck off the bike.
A quick wash down after a salty ride is all that is then needed to keep the bike in good order
brummie:
All my steel bikes get an annual spray of waxoyl inside the tubes to help protect them from any corrosion. Full length mudguards help too...
stutho:
This will be my 6th winter riding, on my RST, though everything that that the weather can throw at me. I have never really considered the salt on the roads. No major rust as yet! I do make a point of giving the frame a really good polish at the start of the winter season but other than that don't take any special procedures.
The frame has being waxoyled twice (once when I build the bike up and once last year)
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