bianchi paintwork

gazeds
gazeds Posts: 182
edited March 2010 in The bottom bracket
got my bianchi out this morning for the first time since last summer. removed the bottle cage to attach a pump, and the paintwork below the cage has started bubbling, obviously due to salt, cant say how dissapointed i am as the bike has never been used in the winter,all i can think of is it due to the salt from persperation? the giant winter bike i use which is an 07 the frame is spot on, has anybody else experianced the same problem. should have bought a carbon fibre frame.

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  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    I doubt if salt has anything to do with it. Is it an aluminium bike..? If so, oxidisation is the most likely cause...
  • gazeds
    gazeds Posts: 182
    yes its the bianchi veloce 1885. any way of stopping it.
    All i want now to p me off even more is for wales to loose this afternoon
  • pickled
    pickled Posts: 439
    Not your day is it? :wink:
  • carrock
    carrock Posts: 1,103
    I had exactly the same problem with my wife's bianchi

    That had a clearcoat frame, and what looked like white cobwebs of corrosion underneath- on a frame that was 8 months old

    So I took it back to the shop and they replaced the frame

    I later found out that Bianchi wouldn't honour the claim, and the LBS paid for the frame

    Would never buy bianchi again

    I would pursue a warranty claim- if that gets nowhere, bring a claim under sale of goods act as the bike is not fit for purpose
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Don't worry about it, nothing special, all Bianchi bikes have rubbish laquer.
    Un uomo solo al commando
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    Does that potentially mean corrosion to the frame?

    I didn't think aluminium rusted...
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    Than never to have loved at all."

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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    It doesn't "rust" as such - but it oxidizes which means it gets covered in a kind of white powder type stuff. As far as I know it isn't as terminal as rust by any stretch of the imagination!
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  • carrock
    carrock Posts: 1,103
    It may not be structurally damaging but it looks fecking awful, and as such I wasn't going to accept it.

    IMHO, Bianchi are crap when it comes to acknowledging and reacting to customer complaints. My LBS is a franchised Bianchi dealer, and sells hundreds of their bikes, and they refused to even discuss this with him. I'll certainly be using the LBS again, but not to buy Bianchi product
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    carrock wrote:
    It may not be structurally damaging but it looks fecking awful, and as such I wasn't going to accept it.

    IMHO, Bianchi are crap when it comes to acknowledging and reacting to customer complaints. My LBS is a franchised Bianchi dealer, and sells hundreds of their bikes, and they refused to even discuss this with him. I'll certainly be using the LBS again, but not to buy Bianchi product

    I think that's the case for nearly all Italian manufacturers judging by friends experiences with Colnago, Pinarello etc.
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  • gumball3000
    gumball3000 Posts: 14
    The white oxidation is common on many Aluminium frames. Usually not structural in any way, A certain American manufacturer had a huge issue with it when they joined Carbon tubes to aluminuim ones. We know it at work as Cannondale Cancer. Cannondale replaced or repainted all of the frames I have ever come across, so fair play to them.... Try your dealer, Bianchi may have improved.
  • SFT
    SFT Posts: 156
    I have a 1885 and noticed similar symptoms after riding the bike on a hot day up hills! Where perspiration had dripped onto the frame the lacquer gave the impresion of a beading. So I have just been very careful to wipe the bike down after I use it and this has prevented any damage. I don't think it is oxidation of the frame, more an issue with the lacquer

    Other than that the bike is fab, and look V cool

    The bike lives in the french alps so I can't take it back to my LBS!!

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