Aldo and everyone:
That's almost enough to make a bicycle collector cry. In spite of limited space, none of my now 73 bikes, no matter how bad condition, or low quality, are kept where they can get wet at all. I hope most of you feel the same, someone needs to preserve these machines. Does everyone know how slowly chrome-moly and other alloy steels take to rust that bad? It sounds like those bikes were left to soak in pools of water up to their mid sections. Upon finding them submerged the very first time, I would have spent whatever time it took to at least get them out of the wet, and hanging high and dry, at the very least. Very sad!
"Bicycle Mark" Perkins Fresno Cycling Club - Historian Fresno, California, U.S.A.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:41:11 -0500 "Aldo Ross" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
writes:
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...I saw both of these bikes in 1998, after they'd been stored in a damp
basement
> which frequently flooded. You could push your finger through the
> rusted frames, a very sad sight. There were another 10 bikes in
> that basement, including a NOS R/W/B Paramount with the
> bottombracket rusted off. More 1940s & 1950s racing bikes were
> rotting away in a shed out back, including a number of Frejus and
> Paramounts.
>
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