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h2o
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How is it your bits look like they're brand new?
I treat my bike parts like I treat my women, I rinse them off every couple of weeks and have their teeth checked at Evans.
But seriously, I am a nazi when it comes to looking after bike parts, I actually find it difficult to look at images of parts/frames on ebay where the seller places the frame on bare concrete or a brick wall, especially a frame with a nice paint job, placing them directly onto concrete ends up scratching the paint work, if even only on the BB shell . . . . Ooooh and just imagine what would happen if it fell over, these people are animals ! If a frame got scratched like that I'd have to have it put down . . . placing a frame on stone or brick is like fingernails on blackboard to me. When I kept my wheels and frames in storage they were . . . no joke . . . vacuum packed, lol.
Notice in the photo of the Argon 18 Electron I am resting it on two pieces of folded felt to protect it from . . . . . wood !! Wood !! Don't you people know what wood can do to a bike !