Something Ugly Beneath The Paint

So there’s this crack in the paint on Trixie The Fixie - near the base of the downtube, just about where it enters the bottom bracket’s lug. It’s been bugging me for a while, so a couple of days ago I took a small grinding tool to it to strip off the paint & have a look at the situation:

Damn!

:-(

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2 Responses to “ Something Ugly Beneath The Paint ”

  1. bigdave_nv on April 18, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    o - trixie! was that a rust spot that went thru? so sorry man!

  2. Bill on April 19, 2009 at 12:23 am

    Nothing good can come of that.