Re: [CR] How practical is a fully chromed frame? 2nd Try

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Cinelli)

Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:25:22 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: <haxixe@gmail.com>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] How practical is a fully chromed frame? 2nd Try


2009/6/11 Kurt Sperry <haxixe@gmail.com>:
> For chrome finishes on bicycles it's all down to the quality and
> thicknesses of the job done.  Chrome can vary from something you could
> bury in the ground for 20 years, dig up and quickly polish up to
> absolutely as new to something that starts peppering, rusting and
> peeling just seeing rain through the window.  A lot of bicycle chrome
> has been closer to the latter, but its not the fault of the technique but rather of poor execution.

Kurt Sperry
Bellingham, Washington
USA