Show us your Titanium! - Ti and Stainless bikes

Now that's a bike that should be worth bastion money

Yeah I think No22 make the nicest Ti bikes at the moment, some of their finishes and the blend of materials are great.

Is there an article on how they are made ?

https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/bryce-gracey-no-22-bicycle-company

It's a mix of 3d printing, regular ti tubing and carbon fibre. Finishes are a mix of anodising, cerakote, and polished / brushed / blasted ti.

Thats a rather beautiful thing and the quality up close in some shots is ridiculous!

Framework bicycle from Canada are doing a similar thing right now and even make there own carbon tubing.
Incredible work.
Lots of cnc work too, for prototyping.
The testing and cad work appears to be to aeronautical standard.
The stem they made recently posted on Instagram is a work of form and function.
https://www.instagram.com/frameworkbikes

Yeah from a purely precision and quality of componetry point of view Frameworks set the standard. Aluminium lugs though so not sure they strictly qualify for this thread 😉

I love all the two-wheeled jewellery above! Is this part of the reason that Rolex prices are falling - who wants a luxury branded "commodity" with very limited functionality, when you can have a unique and effective artwork for less ? We live in very fortunate times - CNC, 3D Ti printing, customised Carbon weave.... And yet I still want a full carbon-neutral, organically grown Graphine frameset ;-)

Framework is a one man show as far as I know. One guy making the lugs, writing the cnc scripts, rolling carbon into tubes, the whole thing.
I am thinking about one as my final bike.
(I’m old)

https://www.slowspinsociety.com/blog/no22

another article with a lot of pictures about the manufacturing process and no.22 workshop. I'm pretty sure you can also find a couple of no.22 little wing bike checks/first impressions on the same website - they're a thing of beauty

Phwoar... How's that for a removable faceplate!

Constantly amazed by them. Definitely my lottery win purchase, I kind of assumed the lugs were titanium tbh, my bad.

Finally adding my Yukon. Had it about 6 years now and still love it. Mainly used for audaxes and lost lanes rides. Took out on a shake down ride after adding new stem and seat post so lots of stopping to adjust the fit. Will go back to 28s and new mudguards before October arrives.

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Meant to post this ages ago. Took this just before I sold the wheels and have put it away for a future project. Bought a gravel bike and love riding in Forest, so it wasn’t getting any use. But I love it so much, it’s got a rich history. So I figure I’ll give it a new lease of live when I’ve got a better place to ride it.

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A beautiful stainless modern road frame made by french artisan CYFAC

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That’s really quite nice, not sure I want to spoil the moment by pursuing a retail price.

Not sure if it's been posted before but ribble are doing a titanium gravel frame with 3d printed parts.
Fairly accessible at £3.5k for the 105 version

I've got a Sabbath Ti tourer (I'm sure it's posted somewhere upthread) which I don't ride nearly as much as my other bikes - and I'm realising it's because it's got canti brakes and they're a real pain to maintain, don't have great stopping power etc (compared to my disc mtb for instance).

Sooo I'm starting to look into getting a disc brake mount added - Vernon Barker cycles in Sheffield seems to be the only place that advertises such work but does anyone else have experience of getting this done/dealt with them before?

Edit: Just to add that it looks like Sabbath have sadly gone bust otherwise I'd have gone back to them in the first instance.

Spa took over Sabbaths dealings. Not sure if they still do.

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Maybe Reilly in Brighton could help - they build their own Ti bikes on site.

@spxtz

I had canti studs added to a Ti disc frame about twelve years ago by Vernon Barker. He did a decent enough job, especially for the price.

If you wanted to take the absolute cheapest route to disc power… Switch out the fork for one with a disc mount and run it mullet with a disc front (ie a good cable disc)/ canti rear setup. If you’re anything like me it’s front for breaking and rear for speed modulation in any event.
Obviously it means a bit more effort to get a matching wheelset (I’d been planning something similar and was thinking carbon rims/dt swiss hubs so disc/rim effectively match) but much less faff then brazing tabs and rebuilding the entire bike.

I've run my cross check like this for ages - works really well. Along with swiss stop pads in the rear canti to maximise its fairly dubious braking power

Didn't know whether to post this in this thread or the Orient Express one but does anyone have experience of procuring a frame from Waltly?

I'm quite keen on the idea of a Ti bike which basically copies the geometry of a Crux DSW but with mudguard/rack mounts, external routing and a T47 BB. Looks like it'd end up cheaper than the Crux DSW frameset as well which would be another positive.

I've been googling and there does seem to be a lot of positive posts out there, they do stress though you have to be quite specific about the geometry details.