My bike has been on a trailer for about 2 weeks as I recently moved to Ft. Bragg, NC. It was covered with a tarp. Yet this still happened. Can it be salvaged?

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should be fine after you hit your brakes the first time.  buring the summer that would happen to mine about once a month.  i would just get going in first gear and just apply a bit of front brake to clean them back up before going out and getting on them to hard. they will look good as new after first 2 mins on the road tho.

You should be good...it is only light surface rust. Go for a ride and hit your brakes a few times it will clear up. Or use a fine sand paper and do a very light sanding.

Jeppy

Better to go use the brakes, really. No random grit particles from the sandpaper to fuss about (though there's always road grit, but it's a rare road with carborundum grit...)

You can consider that you are polishing it with rouge (which is basically red rust) when you go use the brakes when it's rusty.

Consider rust a sign that it's time to either go for a ride, or move to a drier climate (or hop on the bike and ride to a drier climate, then stay there...)

-From the rust-belt (yeah, that's what my truck needs - a belt to hold the rust together).

Quote from: tussey on February 02, 2009, 05:59:45 AM
My bike has been on a trailer for about 2 weeks as I recently moved to Ft. Bragg, NC. It was covered with a tarp. Yet this still happened. Can it be salvaged?

edit: mods please move to general discussion. ty

i wonder why you have so little contact on the rotor ? :|

Its got that characterstic groovy wear. Measure thickness, that rust aint no thang.
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