03-03-2014, 05:35 PM
If the specks are blisters in the chrome, there is a lack of adhesion and the plating is defective. If it is rust, the steel is pitted and will only get worse. The cheap plating is just a decorative flash of a few millionths of an inch thick to make it look bright. When corrosion starts at small spots in the plating, the steel underneath is actually sacrificial to the chrome. Just like zinc is sacrificial to steel and protects the steel that it is near, except the other way around......the steel gets eaten up instead of the plating.
so if you wait there is no resurfacing to be done. You'll be buying new tubes.
I'd take it in under warranty, unless it is some kind of road gunk that you can remove with an automotive type wax. Its not a bad idea to frequently clean and wax your fork tubes anyway.
so if you wait there is no resurfacing to be done. You'll be buying new tubes.
I'd take it in under warranty, unless it is some kind of road gunk that you can remove with an automotive type wax. Its not a bad idea to frequently clean and wax your fork tubes anyway.
