This was my first ever new mountain bike, bought in January 1994 after working like a dog over Xmas in a Mexican restaurant outside Frankfurt base. I think of making Caipirinhas all night for airmen letting off steam whenever I look at it. Then I raced it in the UK for a couple of years. Ringlé skewers, 217 SUPs and Mag 21s.
Just got it back after a decade in storage and whoo! look at the aluminium oxidation going on under the paint here. The paint has split in places. Aluminium, they said, won't rust they said. I guess this frame is only fit for parting out and recycling now :/.
by wstephenson
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Woah, did you leave the bike in sea water? that’s wild!
I was stationed at Rhein-Main and lived in Zeppelinheim during that time. I was riding a 91 Cannondale M500 and would ride into Waldorf, Morfelden and Frankfurt using the bike paths. The most fun was going to Oberusel and mountain biking up to the tower and down again. Those aluminum frames don’t rust, but they sure do oxide. I still have a 94 Cannondale Delta V in pretty good shape still. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
galvanic corrosion started from the steel bosses and spread maybe?
Damn! At first look, I thought that seat tube had been excessively wrapped with purple duck tape!
Oh yeah,😉 lump tek, very aerodynamic.