Steve Maas wrote:
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> It might be fun to be smug, and note that our older bikes are well past
> the infant-mortality stage, and thus more reliable. Unfortunately,
> however, a heavily used, 30-year-old bike is probably well into the
> end-of-life period, in terms of failure rates, for many of its
> components.
In my experience, finding a "heavily used" 30 year old bike would be the exception.
All the bikes I have seen that appear to be heavily used are in reality heavily weathered; the parts turn out to be barely worn.
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, CA
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