On-One / Planet X bikes and components

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Brommers in reply to @Overuser155208

My first carbon bike and I'm not sure about how good carbon is to being abused.

Very good, in my experience. I've killed steel and Ali frames before. Never carbon. Well, not yet.

As for Ti, welding that stuff is very difficult and never sure that it is done properly.

It's really not. You have to back purge it, but that's about having the correct fixtures. Welding Aluminium is far, far harder.

Is the pipework still aviation fuel line?

Never was, as far as I know. Most decent Ti frames use butted tubing, and I can't imagine that aviation fuel lines ever used butted tubing.

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Chaley in reply to @Brommers

My Kish is straight gauge and I’d say they were decent, but then it is a city bike. So was spec’d for robustness.

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Brommers in reply to @Chaley

The weight benefits for titanium are less for butted tubes than they are for steel. There are undoubtedly plain gauge titanium frames out there, but most use butted tubes.

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