My bike is new, Full chromoly complete . Bought about 8 months ago. After today's ride I noticed these reticular brown patterns on my frame. Is this rust under the paint coat ?
by Interesting-Common52
My bike is new, Full chromoly complete . Bought about 8 months ago. After today's ride I noticed these reticular brown patterns on my frame. Is this rust under the paint coat ?
by Interesting-Common52
9 Comments
Yes it is
This is normal
Usally u dont see it bcs the paint is not clear
Nothing to worry about my bike got it aswell and rund fine
It’s surface rust, and is common on all trans coloured lacquered frames. It’s only cosmetic and not structural, it’s not a warranty issue.
Surface rust, but imo iy lookels cool and makes interesting patterns, and the second pic, the rust looks like a spider
Filiform corrosion. The worm like pattern is a dead giveaway. Look up filiform corrosion for more information but it’s basically corrosion that forms under paint due to surface imperfections
It’s fine and normal
It forms in areas where the clear paint has been chipped or scratched and under the gusset were moisture can trap.
That Sanskrit sticker wouldn’t fly in the west.
Yes it happens to clear coated frames
Yes and yes it’s gonna spread. Best thing you can do to keep it at bay is clean the bike down, then clean it with alcohol really good and spray 1 or two coats of clear coat just a very thin layer. Get an acrylic crystal clear coat spray paint. If it gets so bad you can’t stand it anymore there’s always the options of getting paint stripper and just stripping down your forks and sanding them and then painting the forks black. Sanding will take that right off along with paint stripper just did it to an old BSD frame I have. Pretty easy straightforward stuff. Looks like most of it is on the forks so if you got rid of that big patch would definitely help with slowing the spread of it. Or you can wait and just do the whole bike and repaint. Up to you !
Also to add to my last comment. About 8 months sounds right for this type of color. Any raw metal color frame or colored metal like this translucent gold or orangish color here will rust very quickly if you don’t double up on the clear coat and keep it inside out of the rain constantly needs to be in a temperature controlled environment to make it last as long as possible. Any frame color where you can see the grain of the metal does not last very long unfortunately even though they look amazing. It’s just part of the game, a lot of bmx websites usually will put a warning about this on these colorways in the description. That’s why !