ikedawilliams
Speeding Up
- Oct 15, 2010
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I have been humming and hawing about my next bike and am considering going all titanium, well as much as possible, meaning:
frame 1,500g
fork 635g
post 230g
stem 173g
seat clamp 25g
headset 96g
seat (w/ Ti rails) 88g
I have seen several TCC'ers with Titanium bikes, and more experience, and wanted to know if this idea was crazy or not. The concept is all silver colored metal, including the wheels and groupset, but I noticed the Ti fork is pretty heavy, the other parts are not all that light, and although people with Ti rave about how great it is, they seem to stop at the frame. I thought this was because there was a lack of supply, but it could also be that there is a lack of demand. I wanted something a little unique, but if you reckon that going with a standard black CF fork, and black alloy components that cost and weigh less than Ti, I would like to know about it.
frame 1,500g
fork 635g
post 230g
stem 173g
seat clamp 25g
headset 96g
seat (w/ Ti rails) 88g
I have seen several TCC'ers with Titanium bikes, and more experience, and wanted to know if this idea was crazy or not. The concept is all silver colored metal, including the wheels and groupset, but I noticed the Ti fork is pretty heavy, the other parts are not all that light, and although people with Ti rave about how great it is, they seem to stop at the frame. I thought this was because there was a lack of supply, but it could also be that there is a lack of demand. I wanted something a little unique, but if you reckon that going with a standard black CF fork, and black alloy components that cost and weigh less than Ti, I would like to know about it.