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  • 2.4% is a big tolerance on a fastener which is holding your wheel to your bike.

    Total weight saving is about 12g per pair compared with steel, why bother? Sprocket nuts on a motorbike have a very different purpose from track nuts, since in the one case they are merely a lateral retainer on a system where the load is taken in shear by the studs, while in the other they must provide sufficient preload on the dropout to create the friction which resists the whole of the chain tension.

    Even if you get the Ti nuts, you'll still have to add washers to replace the captive washers which are part of the track nuts, and you'll probably want to find some thick serrated steel ones at that.

    ok, I'm gonna pass on it then. ty for patience.

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