Rusty but salvagable?
 

I'm looking at grabbing this bike. It looks sweet but the rust scares me a bit. Check out the picture.

http://people.ucsc.edu/~dhansen/univega.jpg

Sorry for the large filesize, kind of necesary. There is a bit of rust around the lugs in general, particuarly the headtube. Also, a bit of rust around the downtube shifter area. I can try to provide better pictures if anyone is interested in looking into it more. Thanks.

Cosmetic, sand and paint. When the paints off, you can get a good idea of the penetration. I don't know much about lugs tho- I've only sanded rust outta butt-welded chromo.
Nice yummy red cranks n' stuff. I love red components. :)

An idea is..( I did this to a couple frames now) strip with gelled stripper, sand with wet emery paper, buff with steel wool and clearcoat. lugs look real nice clearcoated. Easy to maintain.

To bad it doesn't have the internal cable routes. I'd be more interested in looking INSIDE the headset, seattube for rust. :mad:

the bike is most likely going to be a beater single-speed unless i fall in love with it, which isn't too likely. its going for $70ish now and will probably end up around $125... assuming $35+ shipping and all, do you think its worth it?

oh yeah, also it has a boatload of cutouts on the bottom bracket shell. im not exactly a monster of a guy, but i'm a large frame 6'. think i'd crack it?

If the drive is competent ya it's prob an o.k price. Any drive input would be a cash suck. I doubt you'ld crack it, it's columbus or like steel? Hell, you can weld the stuff back together.

I wanted to post again 'cause I thought the handlebar tape is really making me think David Lee Roth. ...have to get a blond rocker mullet and get some b+w striped spandex.

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