Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Bluesky Threads The photo is of the bottom hole; the top looks better but still rusty. by HangryDave Bicycling Bike Bike Repair Biking Cycling Repair
Insert_absurd_name on November 12, 2025 1:33 pm If you don’t like the look just knock out the old star nut and install a new one. Then it is also cosmetically sound
Limp_Bookkeeper_5992 on November 12, 2025 1:40 pm I’d put a wheel on so that my head couldn’t ever fit down there to look up my steerer tube.
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It looks like surface rust. It should be fine.
If you don’t like the look just knock out the old star nut and install a new one. Then it is also cosmetically sound
I’d put a wheel on so that my head couldn’t
ever fit down there to look up my steerer tube.
That’s good for another 50 years