Show us your Titanium! - Ti and Stainless bikes

Lovely bike.

DT Swiss make excellent rims. Highly doubt OPs would be an upgrade.

You may, or more likely may not, remember this from a few pages back... well I had the fork and stem cerakote'd to match the frame details... the stem looks a little off here, but it's not, they're both a perfect match...

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I'm in the market for a new frameset and would love to get something british and titanium... how does the Switchpath ride... is the ride different to other materials?

This frame leans more towards the mtb type of geometry, than it does road racer type of thing....

Before this I had a Kenisis Tripster (al) and this is much more damped by comparison. I don't feel as beaten up after a long gravel ride on this...

Stanton have a sale on at the mo for their Switchpath frames..... I've heard the Ti fork isn't as forgiving as the carbon one, oddly... though it looks fantastic!

Thanks for that... I've always wanted a Ti frame since I mountain biked back in the day... I saw they had a sale... hopefully they still will when I have the cash together!

Cross posting here from Genesis thread in case anyone is looking: I’m selling a 2019 rim brake 931 volare in size xl if anyone is interested? I’m based in Ireland but happy to ship (I’m close enough to the border that I can ship within UK to avoid customs/duty).

Comes with practically new ck headset and hope pressfit41 bb for shimano cranks.

Frameset has covered about 7000km since purchased in June 2020, some minor signs of use, but never crashed or dropped.

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With thanks to @mcJ78 this arrived earlier today.

Tinkering has begun slowly but suspect it’ll pick up pace when time allows.

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Fit

Looks good - are you keeping it as is or are there plans afoot?

I’ll change a couple of things to get some kind of fit and then probably ride it for a week or two.

My Cotic Escapade will become a donor of sorts, typically I’d only just finished changing everything on that but I’m fairly sure everything should fit.

Only grumble with the new chariot is a notchy as F headset. I have no experience with tapered so not sure what options exist?

Can't remember exactly what the lower cup configuration is on these, think it's inset - the cup & bearing sit inside the head tube & it's a nice smooth transition between the ht & fork crown.

The bearing race should just drop out as you remove the forks, replace with a new one and you're good to go for a tenner or so. There are a few similar bearings with slightly different contact angles so just make sure it's the exact same code.

I’d hoped a solution like that would present itself.

Think the bike has sat unused for long periods, not sure if that or some kind of contamination is the cause but the front and rear brakes howl at a volume the horn on my van would be proud of. Hopefully a light scuff with some sandpaper will solve this?

If the brakes are howling I'd probably give the rotors a run through the dishwasher then a good rub with emery paper & just replace the pads. Always found road bike discs more susceptible to contamination (greasy road dust?) and as they're porous it tends to seep into them, you might get lucky with a good sand down but for the sake of a tenner or so for a cheap pair of organic pads I'd be looking at that

notchy as F headset

sat unused for long periods

Before you chase up new bearings, I'd pull the old ones and hit them with a bit of penetrant and work em a bit. With headsets, because they don't spin, and just turn a little from side to side, often it's just crusted up crud and they come good.

Heating the rotors up with a blow torch/heat gun has also been suggested so will try both, I possibly have an old set of rotors anyway so have that to fall back on.
Faffed around for half an hour earlier and failed with nearly everything I tried.
Realising the rear wheel I was trying to fit wouldn’t because a 160 rotor won’t squeeze into a calliper spaced for a 140 took far longer than I care to admit…..

Yeh I’ll have a butchers at what comes out before buying new.

Non ti/stainless donor bike.

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And limited progress on this one.

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Club member is selling this
Titanium Enigma Etape Disc bike (size 56). Purchased in December 2016. Ultegra group set 11 speed, Hunt 50 Carbon Wide Aero tubeless wheelset. Fizik saddle. Original price £4,200. Excellent condition. Great winter bike. serious offers considered….

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Weather has taken a distinct turn for the worse so have dusted this off and oiled and pumped it up - the tyres do look very skinny 😳

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Yeah groan 6 months of rain here we go.

The season for tanwall Vittoria's is over, dark poo brown gp5000's season is upon us. Or simply leave your Vittoria's on, for they soon will be pooh brown all over.

Managed to squeeze 30c tyres into mine, which is pretty fortunate for a frame from 1996.

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That Merckx is hot as!

I can get 32c on the Burls with no issues but not if I want mudguards too

Congrats on the 30c, that's amazing.

Thanks mate. Despite being under the radar as the greyest bike in the world it's very much in the goldilocks zone for me, Max fork, 30c tyres, 30 gears, 30 inch waist...30 years ago..;)

This is wild.