Originally Posted by alanbikehouston
Anyway, I might hesitate to blast Reynolds tubes down to bare steel. The fact that so many Reynolds bikes are providing good service on the roads after twenty or thirty years of riding is evidence of their quality. With reasonable care, many of these bikes will be on the road another twenty years or so. Their scratches and chips are well earned battle scars.
Did Grant Petersen say that too? FWIW, I would repaint any bike that needed it. Even if there was some treatment applied to the surface, think of how many frames didn't have it or might have had it removed when repainted and are still going strong.