"Rust Worms" on a steel bicycle frame. Sometimes, when water gets under the paint on steel, it will slowly form intricate brown patterns which resemble the tunneling of worms. (Bicycle seat stay)
"Rust Worms" on a steel bicycle frame. Sometimes, when water gets under the paint on steel, it will slowly form intricate brown patterns which resemble the tunneling of worms. (Dropout)
"Rust Worms" on a steel bicycle frame. Sometimes, when water gets under the paint on steel, it will slowly form intricate brown patterns which resemble the tunneling of worms. (Bottom bracket shell)
Whilst refamiliarising myself with the foibles of #framebuilding, I tackled some of the #rust.
Turns out #powdercoating is a silly treatment for #bike frames because water inevitably gets under it, and then it just hides the rust...
BUT it has created some rather fine #rustworms!