Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
The shape of the bar is irrelevant -- the fact is that aluminum can corrode, and there are many examples of aluminum bars corroding to support that.
The shape of the bars may be irrelevant but the bar tape and wrapping is relevant because it traps and holds in all that salty sweat against the tubing and ruins it. Never happened to me yet. Not a speck of corrosion on any of my aluminum bars... This is a non-issue on a frame.