Originally Posted by
TreyWestgate
Great everyone am glad it's a keeper, my mountain bike on the other hand I'm not sure what you might think of this.
The mountain bike I have is aluminum and it has some paint bubbles which when scratched off show some white sort of dust, maybe corrosion and I've used rustoleum aluminum primer and now it's just ugly looking but maybe I've stopped the corrosion hopefully.
You might think you can avoid cosmetic problems with aluminum but it will corrode and that means shorter life perhaps right there. is it a bad quality if the paint bubbles and gets the white dust under it?.
also glad that my road bike is steel and the mountain bike is aluminum, or maybe that's not really a good thing.
60xx series (6061) aluminum should be fairly corrosion resistant (it is used with salt water applications
70xx series (7075) aluminum has higher tensile strength, but is more prone to corrosion.