BL,
Thanks for posting those pictures. I inspected my '06 45cm bar and it looks fine - no rust stains or sign of galvanic reaction. Maybe they had a run of bars with bad screws on the 55cm bars? The specs for stainless in China are probably not the best.
It just goes to show that failure of a part worth a few pennies
can be disastrous.
I think that's great that BEST is helping you out on this. Kudos to them.
(If you ride backside Skyway there probably ARE some environmental
hazards unique to Tampa Bay - I've never been there but that's what I've heard)
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