What is titanium in the Record 96+ "titanium" hubs ?

[jordic1968]

This is a question I never had resolved myself. On the RD, bolts are clearly titanium , but speaking for the hubs, the axle to me looks aluminium, same as the body and the freehub... so is there any titanium on these hubs ??

 

[Jonny69]

Obviously I’m looking at a pic on a screen here, but the hub body does look like aluminium. Given the higher strength and stiffness of Ti compared to Al, I don’t know why you’d make the hub body that chunky if it were Ti. Is that sleeve in the middle Ti? Lol.

 

[jim haseltine]

Record 'Titanium' was the groupset name because there were some parts made from Ti. Some parts - not many. RD bolts, pedal axles, some of the larger sprockets of the cassettes and possibly (but I doubt it) the bottom bracket axle. As far as I'm aware there are no Ti parts in the hubs.