Originally Posted by
owen006
Tell me more about the brushed aluminum finish. Do you have any pictures?
Thanks,
Well for a start,
Originally Posted by
ultraman6970
If aluminum the answer is no, but again, w/o paint will get rusty.
Aluminium doesn't rust; it gets a protective oxide coating that lasts pretty well, unless it gets exposed to salt... chlorine corrodes it, IIRC.
My bike's finish is pretty rough; up close it shows all kinds of scrapes and a little mild corrosion here and there, and the top tube is fairly polished, and a spot on the front of the seat tube, from portaging it. But I kinda dig it that way, and from a short distance it looks bloody great. I think of it as a kind of rat race bike... it gets a few comments too. I'm pretty sure it'll be dead from fatigue before it dies from lack of paint; I've already had to trim 6mm off the top of the head tube to remove a crack.
