Originally Posted by
flangehead
In my experience living on a beach, it is the fine mist from the surf that causes high rates of rust. This is location-specific. Look around at steel in the area. I would be surprised if you saw unusually prominent rust 6 miles inland.
OK. Makes sense I guess. Certainly not that close then.
But one of my experiences that made me concerned is I spent a year in Okinawa thanks to Uncle Sam's Big Green Gun Club. Everything rusts there. Even wood. OK, that last part is a joke. But any car more than about 6-7 years old would start showing signs of rust under the paint. By the time a car made it to 20 years, if it did, it was pretty much held together by duct tape and bailing wire. Never noticed any on bikes though. But nobody had a bike more than a year or two before it got stolen.