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Originally Posted by XXtwindad
Well, I really have to push back on this one. Thirty years and counting in the Bay Area (SF/Oakland) and the ONLY steel frame I owned with rust issues was, ironically enough, a STAINLESS frame (Cinelli XCr) I purchased from Florida where the extreme humidity did the damage. The seller reimbursed me for the damage, so all good. But, point being, I’d much rather own a steel steed in the Bay Area than in the humid Southeast.
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Yeah, I've definitely heard this before, but IME, each year I pull apart one of my bikes for service, there's a tonne of rust sitting in the BB shell... Worst was when I lived in SoCal and did the SB -> VTA coastal rides: bikes would get that sticky coat of salty mist and ultimately develop surface rust. Stinner, Marinoni, even the Ti True North needed a regular wipe down, though the frame itself was never affected.