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Jun 2, 2006 | 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by MrShades

The serious and expensive bits of kit, like the high-end Toros, use cast alluminium - which obviously won't rust away.

I better highlight this as it is wrong, cast aluminium does corrode - quite severly as a matter of fact.

Our old Honda (cast ally deck) was scrapped for this very reason (...plus it consumed as much oil as it did petrol

) - it quite literally fell apart. Stainless steel handle bars were still ok though

. Galvanised or stainless steel decks are better than aluminium or enamelled/plastic coated steel - but there are very few and far between (more common abroad though

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Jun 2, 2006 | 09:37 PM

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LOL - go and buy a steel deck at your peril.... a 15 or 20 yr guarantee on an ally deck is not uncommon!

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