Burls Ti Road

Nothing about your geometry points to a need for custom. You could have a CAAD and be riding faster this weekend, or you can wait for months for something not quite as good :-)

Is that true or a joke?

For real. The more you look at titanium, the less sense it makes for any part of a bicycle. There are a couple of places where you can use Ti directly to replace steel because you can't reasonably change the dimensions but the steel part is much stronger and/or stiffer than it needs to be, but if you have a free hand then all the really good things about Ti don't really apply to bicycles, unless you routinely wash your bicycle with hot concentrated acid.

58cm would only need a stem 10mm shorter but a few spacer to replica the position.

For real. The more you look at titanium, the less sense it makes for any part of a bicycle. There are a couple of places where you can use Ti directly to replace steel because you can't reasonably change the dimensions but the steel part is much stronger and/or stiffer than it needs to be, but if you have a free hand then all the really good things about Ti don't really apply to bicycles, unless you routinely wash your bicycle with hot concentrated acid.

Good thing riding a bike isent done in theory.

Good thing for Ti sellers, certainly.

what about the looking pretty thing? and the boast thing? the three works 'handmade from titanium' ensure you win in any pub debate about bikes with your girlfriends' friends' new boyfriend who claims he 'likes bikes'...

I don't care that it's better/ worse/ whatever compared to steel. I am still jealous.

Subscribed. This is going to be a great build. I've just bought the 3T Ergonova Pro Alloy bars too. Great flattish feel on the top. Ergo even....

For real. The more you look at titanium, the less sense it makes for any part of a bicycle. There are a couple of places where you can use Ti directly to replace steel because you can't reasonably change the dimensions but the steel part is much stronger and/or stiffer than it needs to be, but if you have a free hand then all the really good things about Ti don't really apply to bicycles, unless you routinely wash your bicycle with hot concentrated acid.

I love my Ti bikes none of which are ideal in the fitting, I was more referring to maybe get a carbon if you can buy a bike that fits you?

Ignore mdcc, Ti bikes have really nice damping qualities making them comfy as fuck. I recommend getting the bi-ovalised downtube for extra stiffness at the BB though.

Not long finished putting this together. Still waiting for the sunshine to arrive before I ride it, delayed pleasure! You'll be very happy with your frame Im sure. The welds are fantastic.

I like the way titanium rides, racings fine on plastic but plush is the word for titanium.

^looks very smart!

^^good to hear, as opted for bi-ovalised when I ordered :)

Any updates here, T?

Keen to know how things are going, as I have Burls on my radar for a potential new frame.

The six weeks is approaching fast so hoping to hear something soon.... I'm doing Pedal Norfolk on the first May bank holiday so fingers crossed the stars align for me! Will update as soon as I hear

So the frame has now arrived! Scherrit is going to build it so it's being forwarded to him. Not too long to go now.

It's built, it's been ridden, and I love it!

http://www.strava.com/activities/136958647

Did 250 miles at Pedal Norfolk over the weekend and it certainly seems plenty quick enough.

Need to get some good pictures, but here it is just after fiddling with the gears. I definitely need some layback on the post, steerer needs a trim and I might rotate the bars down a bit.

That is beautiful, Force22 looks really good

If this is a custom bike why do you have the wrong seatpost? Am just a little surprised.

The fit was replicated from a bike with a different saddle so it was going to be close between 20mm layback and inline. I had an inline spare so tried that before buying a layback.

Another attempt to get a photo, I could do with a proper camera I think.

rad

Cracking effort that