Thanks for the responses everyone. Certainly reassuring. I do hope to ride it for the next 25 years. I'll probably go ahead and frame saver it, touch up the paint, and put it back together.
Also, an update about getting touch up paint from Waterford - I sent them my serial number and it turns out that my frame was built by them in Nov 06, but wasn't painted by them, but from what I could conclude the more recent frames made by them for Rivendell are also painted by them, so touch up paint would be available. On Oct 6, 9:35 pm, Bob Cooper <robertcoo...@frontiernet.net> wrote: > Steel can take a lot and still function as designed. > > Do regular maintenance, ride and enjoy. > > Inspect the aluminum bits, like pedal eyes in the cranks and also > stem, handlebar. > > Those regions are more likely to fail suddenly but even that's not > very common. > > Bob Cooper -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
