Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
I wanted to show the neglected bike so some of you could understand that steel bikes are not rusting away into piles of rusty powder even if it's neglected.
Of course they don't, I love steel frames - in fact all of my bikes are steel. In this case I'm concerned about the paint, not the frame integrity, I could sand the rust spots and paint them with some stop-rust and functionally it would be OK.