These days, bicycles are far more common as a viable mode of transportation. This is particularly true as gas prices are increasing daily. That being said, you want to take care of you bike so you can get the most use out of it.
Rust can kill a bike and it starts with the bicycle frame. Using a primer like Por15 on your bike can prevent rust and avoid you having to purchase a new bike frame.
Rust is a general term for a series of iron oxides, usually red oxides, formed by the reaction of iron with oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. Several forms of rust are distinguishable visually and by spectroscopy, and form under different circumstances. Rust consists of hydrated iron oxides, and iron oxide-hydroxide.
Rusting is the common term for corrosion of iron and its alloys, such as steel. Other metals undergo equivalent corrosion, but the resulting oxides are not commonly called rust. Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass eventually converts entirely to rust and disintegrates. The corrosion of aluminum is extremely slow because the resulting aluminum oxide forms a conformal coating, which protects the remaining aluminum. This process is known as passivation.
Rust prevention can occur with the proper products.
