Originally Posted by
tricky
I would indeed! The rust on my Mongoose completely encompassed that area and was pretty gnarly. I rode it that way for a long while. My thinking here is that a fork failure is much more concerning than a crack in BB.
True that, but note that the metal around your dropout is quite a bit thicker than the seat tube on that bottom bracket. Remove the rust, you'll be shocked at how little it penetrated.
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