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I liked it for a while but I think it looks like shit now - to protect it from winter salt, and rather than cleaning it weekly, I just slapped a thick old layer of linseed oil on, and it's gone all orangey-brown and streaky. Kinda like a really horrible old toilet with orange gunge in the crevices. I think this was down to using really thick, dark orange, heavily boiled linseed oil.
I decided to change it, and I've started polishing up the frame. I've got some very chunky 80s black Carlton decals to go on it. I found some really thin straw-yellow linseed oil at a woodwork shop which doesn't even have a hint of yellow when applied over the polished section of frame. Heating the frame with a hairdryer and further thinning the first coat of oil should hopefully get it to penetrate into the pores of the metal and provide good rust protection.