Contemplating a ultra lightweight Titanium bike

[TGR]

Any news on the team mechanic front - you have been quiet!!!

Richard

 

[Synthesis]

Well Richard, work days are long at the time (just got done building a bike just now that had to be finished, it´s being used in a race tomorrow) I´m on duty on Sunday, got to work tomorrow also at the shop. Our other Mec. is in the US, following a rider in the RAAM Race Across America, so I can´t do that many races this month.

 

[Synthesis]

Re:

And this stupid thing gets in the way off the Titanium build

Just got this from "my other boss" a guy I´m helping putting a Collection of bikes together for his business.

I think I´ll do this first, I´m thinking Campagnolo Super Record...

 

[TGR]

Flemming,

If it is in the way, post it to me, i will have some room for it somewhere!

Richard

 

[steviebexplosif]

So after a them scapula

 

[dirttorpedo]

If you are ok with friction shifting, I've been reading great things about Rivendell's silver shifters. I believe they do a thumb version and a bar end version. Although personally I'd get some Gevenalle Audax brake levers and mount my favorite downtube shifter on those. No idea if there is a significant weight penalty, but I like having my shifters on my bars.

 

[froze]

Looks nice Nob, same road I´m going but thinking of this:

http://waltly.en.alibaba.com/product/53 ... frame.html

ISP frame that should save me some weight saving in theory. Been looking at Srams TT900 shifters, I think they can be modified as downtube shifters.

You need to tread carefully buying expensive stuff from China. There was a guy on another forum who wanted to save some money, and found a great deal on a TI frameset, guaranteed for life, from a well-known Chinese TI frame builder. The bike arrived at his house 8 weeks after ordering, which he expected, started to put the bike together and the headset would not fit, he mic'd it and everything seemed to be ok, checked the treads and they were all good, so he took the bike to the bike shop, the bike shop discovered the headtube was slightly ovalized instead of round. He contacted the factory they told him to send it back and as soon as they get they would send him another frame, so he did, and he waited, but no word. contacted the factory, and they told him that he damaged the headtube and they were not going to replace it under warranty, they said they would send back the old frame, he never got it back.

Americans are completely powerless to do anything about that sort of thing, China does not obey nor conform to western laws and rules. So he was screwed out of his money and bike.

If you have the money to gamble with and don't mind the risk then fine, because some people haven't had any trouble with Chinese direct-made stuff, but you could, and that's just one example I've heard of, I've heard of a lot of others.

 

[Jonny69]

Come on folks, this is a 9 year old thread.