Rust in the steel fork

[KnottedYet]

Had the bike for 3 months now. I'm the original owner. Rode in the rain maybe 5 times.

I'll dump some Boeshield in there, just to make me happy. Thanks DebW, you're a babe!

[KnottedYet]

Trek - are you implying that my bike is NOT BUTCH!?!?!?! But, but, I can ride on dirt with it! I can ride on asphalt with it! So, I wear a skirt on it.... SO! (it is too butch! maybe 1/4...) (what is a butch bike, anyway?) (is a Brooks saddle with springs under the butt butch?)

Thanks for the "family" support, gals.

[betagirl]

I was just coming on here to post about my Lemond rust and saw your thread. So thanks for putting it up first

The zurich is a combo steel/carbon frame and I have a rust spot on one side of the chainstay (which is steel obviously) toward the back dropout. Last year on the MS150 a friend rode into the back of me at a stop sign, on my Trek she'd borrowed to boot The Trek was fine, and I always had in my head about rust due to the paint chip but never did anything about it. It's not a huge area, about the size of an eraser head on a pencil, maybe a little smaller. But as others have said, that crap will just grow under the paint. Considering what a narrow part of the bike it's on, I'd like to fix it. So thanks for the info on the thread everyone. I think I'll drop by performance to see what they'll charge me to fix it before I do it myself.

[DebW]

Had the bike for 3 months now. I'm the original owner. Rode in the rain maybe 5 times.

I'll dump some Boeshield in there, just to make me happy. Thanks DebW, you're a babe!

Hmmm, 3 months is a very short time to be showing signs of rust if the surface were properly finished. I'd suspect that either the paint/chrome/finish wasn't done properly around the hole or the fork was stored in a damp environment before it became your bike. You could go complain to the place you bought that bike from, or just watch it and use Boshield regularly.

[Trek420]

Yeah, that was my thought. 3 months is not long. My commuter's about 10 years old, has some scrapes and dings in the paintjob but no rust. I check for that when I clean, so far so good.