Originally Posted by
loky1179
Hey, I'm glad you responded! I know you're riding a Nashbar aluminum frame - how long have you used that? That is definitely one option I'm thinking of. A guy has a Nashbar frame on CL right now - if only he'd respond to me.
I was tuning up the "summer" bike today, and there is LOTS of rust on the frame. The problem isn't even so much that there is salt on the roads. The issue is that I'm a one way commuter, and the bike gets thrown on the front of the bus every morning, where it gets blasted with road salt at 60MPH.
My steel frames could probably handle getting blasted at 15 MPH
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I got it from Nashbar during one of their frame clearance sales, but it's not a Nashbar frame, it's a Mongoose similar to this except that I put drops on mine. At $25 it seemed like it was a steel (tee hee) but it was missing the EBB core which proved to be very hard to find.
This is an older picture. Now it has a fork that's similar to what it's supposed to have.
The model is called "Sabrosa" and it's kind of a jack of all trades. It could be fitted with a derailleur or an IGH. It has an EBB but newer models had sliding dropouts which would be better.