The handles on my stainless steel cooking pots will usually fall off quickly - the rivets holding them are some other metal and will just corrode away. I've had stainless steel cups split down the side (even though they were stored on the bottom of a stainless steel water bottle.

I've had a msr dragonfly cooking stove fall apart at the welds from exposure to salt.


I'm not always great about rinsing off my kayaking gear quickly after a trip, and I don't always think "oh, let's rinse the stove!" when the stove hasn't actually gotten wet or been immersed.

Salt water is just nasty.

I'm sorry you need a new fork. Hopefully you can make the case that manitou should have had those drop outs painted and sealed so that they weren't so sensitive to salt corrosion and manitou will at least give you a discount on a new fork. It's retarded suggesting that anyone would ride a mountain bike without the front wheel seated correctly, 'cause most people enjoy living.

I know I rode my carbon road bike once maybe a week after a snow storm - and sponged my bike down aftwards, but my brake calipers are all pitted & corroded from that one exposure. Now I just ride on the trainer and don't take any bike I care about in those types of conditions.