Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1989 10:03-EST 
From: Blake.Ward@CENTRO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU
To: Frederick.Knabe@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: Re: Mountain bikes?
Message-Id: <602434991/bdw@CENTRO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Frederick.Knabe's bboard message of 02-Feb-89 09:57
Resent-To: bovik@k
Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 89 17:28:08 EST
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Resent-From: Frederick.Knabe@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

Fritz,

Jamis makes a very good line of mountain bikes.  I used to own their
bottom of the line model and I did everything possible to it, yet it
continued to perform just fine.  If kept properly lubricated, all good
mountain bikes are reasonably resistant to rust, but none of them are
going to be totally immune since at least the chain is going to be made
of a metal that will rust.  The very top of the line bikes $1000+ are
almost all made from aluminum frames which makes the frame completely
resistant to rust, but some of the components are still going to made
out of metals that can rust.  From a practical point of view, I ride my
mountain bike in the rain and mud all of the time and in the winter I
ride it on the salted roads and I don't have any problems with rust.  I
just wash it regularily and keep it oiled up.

	Blake.