Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
Reading your post again I noted you'd had it renovated at Mercian Cycles. In the past their stove enamelling, (which you might not have had),was considered to be about the best paint job you could get and should last decades. I was therefore a little bit surprised to hear it was in a poor condition, unless you've given it a particularly hard 17 years?
The bike doesn't have an easy life; it's used for quite a lot of my utility riding, gets parked outside in any weather (e.g. at fell race venues, as well as in town), etc.