Show us your Titanium! - Ti and Stainless bikes

Really love the contrast between the junctions and tubes. 🤤

@Big_Ted what was the ordering process like with Seven? Any concerns on fit? I bought a used steel axiom fairly recently from eBay and I really like it a lot. Considering buying modern Ti version (mines pretty old).

I keep coming back to it, such great proportions, just so

I got this secondhand, no way I could run to a new one!!! Despite it being custom for someone else it fits me well, adjusted the saddle height and rotated the bars by a fraction (didn’t need to, was convincing myself I was dialling it in - truth is I most likely rotated up, rotated back and was satisfied) and rode it.

Solarider would the person to check with, I got it from him and he’s had others

Thanks. Right saddle height for me. Can you give me a nudge to take a look if you list it for sale here?

Of course.

Blimey, even @JB 's old enough for titanium bikes now :-/

Cool. Thanks. Similar to my experience. I built it up from a frameset but it fits me surprisingly well.

I am married, I turned 27 a few weeks ago, I have two dogs and I live 6000
miles away from home. I am old before my time! @BareNecessities.

Isn’t the trick you take a shit old frame in a box, have a ‘riding holiday in the us’, bin the old >frame and bring back your new frame in the box?

Some forfeit their bike. Generally the fine is twice the value of the tax evaded.
You could lose the bike and pay twice the tax.

You will be flagged in the system forever.

My favourite bike was a Rocky Mountain Ti Bolt.
After searching for a replacement for years I got a Ti Sports G-Man. Same builder as the Ti Bolt but without the trademark Rocky seat cluster.
Dropouts are the Sandvik standard, I think they were made to order by Paragon.
Frame is near mint, former owner traded up to a fashionable 29er.

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Let the headtube battle begin. 😉@lsinclair

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But what will be your mid-life crisis bike then?

A Harley

Don't listen to them @JB, I got my first Ti frame when I was thirty.

Yeah Titanium bikes are the way forward regardless of how old you are. I got my first one (Planet X Lynskey) in my early 20s! Carbon is so overrated.

Do you still have the Ribble?
How have you found it?

I got my first titanium "bike for life" at 21 and now ride a aluminium Cube.

Yes, still got it and really enjoy riding it.

That said, it’s not light by any stretch of the imagination and it looks like you can get very similar from Planet X for very much less

I've only got one titanium bike (i know right?) it has a big dent in the downtube when I drove it into a carport while still on the roof rack a few years ago. Still rides nice.

Any idea where to get a titanium frame refinished, ie mines polished with scratches and all the decals flaking off...I would like it painted but equally the brushed look is really nice too...does anyone do that in London town?

Ah ok. I’m think of something for winter/ Audax that could also take a large tyre. Kenesis offerings look good but aren’t cheap either.

I've taken a punt on a cracked Litespeed, arriving later this week - repair to downtube needed and then I'm going to attempt to channel something T0-ster esque....

If you have the time and patience it’s straight forward to re brush a ti frame yourself. I have brushed a shotpeened and a polished frame. Polished is easier. You need strips of scotch brite pad in varying grades and simply run it radially around the tubes.

The Ribble comfortably takes 700x42c at the back (less with a mudguard), would fit even bigger at the front.

I've got a cassette and rotor arriving so will get the 650b wheels on and post a photo.

Ok, rotor still awaited (arrived from Wiggle covered in peanut butter) but here’s a 48c 650b on the front, still lots of room

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