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No crack in it, as far as I know... Yet...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cracked+titanium+bike+frame ~360,000 results
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cracked+steel+bike+frame ~380,000 resultsGiven that Reynolds 531 alone probably accounts for 10 steel frames for every titanium frame of any make, I can't help but wonder whether there might be something fundamentally wrong with welding Ti tubes into the shape of a bicycle :-)
I am all of a sudden a happy chap :-) Will talk to ReturnOfMosquito. Thank you everyone...