Re: [CR]Holes in Chainstays (Was: What make that Confente worth so much?)

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Avocet)

In-Reply-To: <3B2D042B.2DACDF7B@fridayscomputer.com>
References: <20010617.140131.-296595.1.richardsachs@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 14:21:03 -0700
To: Steve Freides <steve@fridayscomputer.com>
From: "Monkeyman" <monkey37@bluemarble.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Holes in Chainstays (Was: What make that Confente worth so much?)
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


The questions is how did so much water get IN? The holes are there to vent gasses that build up during the building phase. Personally on bikes I ride in the rain I spray a bunch of LPS-3 in the tubes and then seal them up. Some will say that if you seal them up condensation will build up and make it rust through. One problem with that is there needs to be major temperature changes and lots of air volume, neither is really available with stays and fork blades. Also just for cautions sake I use the LPS-3. enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
>I _did_ ride today, with two friends, on a motley assortment of
>old-but-not-really-vintage bikes, all fitted with fixed gears. A
>question for you all: After riding in the pouring rain, when I happened
>to lift the bike so that the front wheel was up in the air and the rear
>wheel was still on the ground, quite a bit of water emerged from holes
>that had been purposefully drilled in the chainstays just in front of
>the dropouts. Is this sort of hole normal? Wise? It seems quite wise
>to me but I don't recall seeing it on too many vintage bicycles. How
>else would that water escape?
>
>Steve "on a Bianchi Special 43x17" Freides
>
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>Richard M Sachs wrote:
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