Anniebikes made a post about rust, here, in a gracefully aging Peugeot. Timely is as timely does, because I've just been experiencing equipment corrosion. First off, Ocean Shores is not a friendly climate when it comes to corrosion; being a narrow Peninsula that is surrounded by salt water. From here, a salt air environment is almost ideal for galvanic corrosion. This spring, I've experienced several corrosion failures. The first one was a Seiko clock that stopped working. Now, I'll have to see if there's any way to restart it so that it can show the correct time more than twice a day. It's a sentimental thing, since we can always ask Google what time it is.
Next, I noticed that all my bike chains stiffened up over the winter while we were celebrating the Holidays down in Texas. That was readily remedied by relubing the offending chains. A couple of my bike lights also stopped working. One of those (a Cateye), is now permanently dead since I'd forgotten how to open it up properly in order to change batteries.
Finally, I discovered that my Performance Bikes trunk bag zippers all froze up during the winter. It took the better part of an hour to get them working again. This is the first time I've experienced frozen bag zippers. Afterwards, I checked my Arkel and Ortlieb bag zippers and they seem to be OK. I'm not sure if Performance simply uses inferior zippers, or what the actual story is. Perhaps Performance simply used aluminum instead of steel to save weight...
