For Sale Cove Hummer - Ti frame - £175

[d8mok]

Can it not be repaired?

Not worth the hassle and cost to end up with a welded frame.

 

[M_Chavez]

I could say "steel is real" but I won't.
But I could if I wanted to.

 

[CTK]

Gussets often dont look right to me. Just moving stresses about.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I could say "steel is real" but I won't.
But I could if I wanted to.

I counter with
"Rust is real"

Any Yo Eddy owners here?

And steel also fatigues, but it's a much better understood frame material as we've been using it for 140 years:

Retro vs modern

A prototype Slingshot?! 🤣 1886 HH&C safety. The prototype bicycle, basically. I'll post a resto thread when we get on to it, but given it sat in a barn for 50 years, one of my colleagues took it for a testride with almost no repair:

www.retrobike.co.uk

And we've made a billion of them!

I've sold 1000s of steel bikes, and own quite a few. They also fail.

Whereas sales for ti would be dozens, with one (known) failure, a Cotic Soda, at around 15 years.

 

[M_Chavez]

In rust we trust.
I think I'll fail a lot sooner than any of my steel frames, and they are all older than me.

 

[d8mok]

All materials can fail.

The only ones which tend to be talked about are rare or expensive which tend to be better materials as the cheap stuff is simply thrown away.

 

[bikeworkshop]

And of course Titanium alloy was touted as being a "bike for life" inthe mid/late 90s when quality steel frames were still available.
My own ti frames are 20,25 and 30 y.o. and well used:

 

[ishaw]

I could say "steel is real" but I won't.
But I could if I wanted to.

But Ti is Fly

 

[Russell]

‘Materials’ don’t fail. Designs do.

 

[Lucidone]

‘Materials’ don’t fail. Designs do.

Trying to make that scan into..