Hi All
I know that everytime you ride your steel/ aluminium bike, the frame is stressed at many points.
Every frame has a finite life and will fail once serious fatique sets in or breaking point is finally exceeded etc.
What I wanna know is that if you 'retire' your 25-year-old old Mountain bike and just use it as a commuter/ road bike with no jumping or trashing stresses applied to it anymore, will the frame and bike components last longer...perhaps your entire lifetime?
Cheers.
I know that everytime you ride your steel/ aluminium bike, the frame is stressed at many points.
Every frame has a finite life and will fail once serious fatique sets in or breaking point is finally exceeded etc.
What I wanna know is that if you 'retire' your 25-year-old old Mountain bike and just use it as a commuter/ road bike with no jumping or trashing stresses applied to it anymore, will the frame and bike components last longer...perhaps your entire lifetime?
Cheers.