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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>> Leave your laptops, for christ' sake. GO
>> RIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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