Show us your Titanium! - Ti and Stainless bikes

That's for sure. She's much more polite than you

It's a fairly involved process to get exactly what you want out of it.
I drew and sent a fusion 360 3D design, a 2D design, all the angles, tube lengths, boss placements, the cable routing, the distance of the bridges from the dropouts, the distance from the top of the seat tube that the seat stays join etc etc. You have to specify everything. The one thing I forgot to mention was where I wanted the front mech di2 hole and they put it on the front of the seat tube rather than the back where it enters the mech.
You live and learn

The one thing I forgot

You also forgot to show us the other photos ;-)

I'm going to wait until its in my hands and/or painted

Saw one of the GCN presenters out at the Forest of Dean doing photo shoot with a Moots gravel biek with ti fork. I asked how the fork was and he said it was more than stiff enough.

I do think moots make lovely looking bikes.

was it a Moots ti fork? I thought they'd said they wouldn't... will keep an eye out...

I think so. I was trail building and then also passed the photo shoot when out for a ride so didn’t get a great look.

disc i take it?

Reading this thread, I did a mental ‘my ti bikes’ audit. And I’m fucking aghast at the result (not humblebrag, literal shame at this lot languishing in a dank shed while I luxuriate in my own indolence).

I share with the genuine hope that I will be (harshly) judged and that this may shame/spark me into action. I’ll go in order of acquisition, please be (un)kind.

1) Orange Vit T2 -all present and period correct with blue ano, Middleburns, thumbies, Dia Compe SS5, Hope, RC30

2) Burls fixed - Phil hubs, Thomson, Record carbon levers

3) Burls winter bike - Rival 10s, Arione, Tune

4) Seven Axiom SL - Red eTap, Zipp, ee, Arione 00

5) Ribble CGR (disguised as an ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Isen’, a joke that not even I find funny) - Force, Thomson, choice of wheels

6) Enigma Echo - fancy flip paint, 10s Record

I can only describe this as a plaintive middle aged cry for help

The only way to solve this is to go on a soul- searching bikepacking trip on the Seven to Stockholm, and upon arrival taking in the sights and selling it to me, and finding peace (I can give you a Trek 830 frame as partial payment thus adding to metal balance).

Let’s have a look at the Vit T2 then!

Photos a bit old/rubbish but here you go

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you're much further along the path of having an all Ti roster of bikes than I am.
Personally I'd wonder why you need all of the Burls, Seven and Enigma, don't their usages overlap? What's the point in having a winter titanium bike? Titanium doesn't rust, all of your bikes are winter bikes.
I'm not a gravel bod, but does the Ribble get any usage, if you're wandering down memory lane with the Orange? Or vice versa.

I'd keep:
one of these,

whichever of the road bikes, you prefer riding on,

Burls winter bike - Rival 10s, Arione, Tune
Seven Axiom SL - Red eTap, Zipp, ee, Arione 00
Enigma Echo - fancy flip paint, 10s Record

And then one of these
Ribble CGR (disguised as an ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Isen’, a joke that not even I find funny) - Force, Thomson, choice of wheels
Orange Vit T2 -all present and period correct with blue ano, Middleburns, thumbies, Dia Compe SS5, Hope, RC30

and keep the Burls fixed - Phil hubs, Thomson, Record carbon levers, as this is a fixed and single speed forum, and you're down to three

Are you new here?

4) Seven Axiom SL - Red eTap, Zipp, ee, Arione 00

There goes my plan of selling you my Axiom

Managed to get out for a road ride for the first time this year - squeezed 33mm jack browns on the Equilibrium to cope with the shitty backroads & don't think i'll be going back to 28s unless I really need mudguards back on

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got any photos of the Seven?

+1

You can't sell the Seven!

Nope, but he asked for feedback, so I gave him some.
I'd rather have fewer bikes and ride each of them more, than lots of bikes and ride each of them less.
How many are you down to now?

Interesting thoughts although the Burls winter bike is very different to the Seven and Enigma, it’s the mudguards and stout yeoman build that makes it a winter bike rather than being ti (naturally I have other bikes that take mudguards 🤦‍♂️). I also got it for pennies from a friend so it would survive any cull.

The Ribble and the Orange are also very different bikes - I’ve never used the Orange on road but have used the Ribble for all sorts. And I got the Ribble off the same friend for not much (he has a handy habit of buying bikes slightly too big that he then passes on to me for very little. I sometimes get a Lang of guilt when advising him on anew purchase but it usually passes quite quickly).

So the two real comparators are the Seven and the Enigma and the latter is painted so I can just about convince myself that it’s totally different; plus it looks very winsome in the sun.

And that leaves the Burls fixed which, as you say, I am duty bound to keep.

Nobody said that middle aged acquisition was easy

You could always buy mine

Here you go

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tbf if I was the same size as @solarider I'm fairly sure I'd own that many TI bikes too!

Awesome bike looks huge!