Rust is a scab on steel. With high quality steel, you'd have to really work at it to rust it out. This stem has been treated with Ospho, and that neutralizes the rust. Sure, in 100 years, it might be an issue. But the tubing is 2mm thick, it's not going anywhere any time soon. People ride scratched steel frames with tubes that are .5mm thick, and they're generally fine for years.
New iterations of the stem will be black cerakoted or clear cerakoted. Working on that now. -james On Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 2:40:48 AM UTC-4, Hetchins52 wrote: > > Looks great with the new stem and bars and glad to hear that they are more > comfortable! > > I always find raw steel stems to be jarring to look at. Kinda > fingernails-on-a-blackboard. > And, I can't help but think, 'Rust Never Sleeps!" > > David Lipsky > Berkeley > > On Friday, April 5, 2019 at 3:17:22 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> New plan. It looks less wild (and more silver) now, but I gave in to the >> more familiar and comfy for my wrists V-O Milan cockpit with Ergon grips. >> That motorcycle-style position just works for me..I feel more in control. >> I'm going to pop the flared drops on my XO-1 and hit the trails they were >> designed for. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
