Custom Titanium Options

[colker]

Originally Posted by Kontact

Well, you can always accomplish that with a shim, but most Ti builders have gotten away from aluminum sleeves - probably because of the corrosion issue. But it would certainly be easy to use a thick CF sleeve.

I just don't understand the design rationale behind having wildly different post and tube diameters. No one would put a step in a seat mast style frame.

I had a ti frame w/ aluminum inserts on the head and seat tube. Bike creaked, repeatedly. It drove me nuts.
I moved everything incl. headset to a steel frame and voila: no creaks.

[Kontact]

Originally Posted by colker

I had a ti frame w/ aluminum inserts on the head and seat tube. Bike creaked, repeatedly. It drove me nuts.
I moved everything incl. headset to a steel frame and voila: no creaks.

I have the same - no creaks. If it started to make noise I would use the warranty.

[Jeff N.]

Originally Posted by cadence90

I don't really understand the issue here, sorry. No single, specific builder should be expected to offer all of the options that exist on the market, and they won't.

So, if one wants only a 31.6 frame and seatpost, and since at least some frame-builders offer 31.6 seattubes, and at least some manufacturers offer 31.6 seatposts, just buy from those people, no? Or write Albert Bold a nice letter.

We're not talking about unicorns here, after all.
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Yep, that's pretty much what it boils down to...and pretty much what I'll do...or just go with a 27.2 (they all offer that). End of discussion.

[m4rk540]

Jeff, why do you like Ti so much?

[cadence90]

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[Jeff N.]

Originally Posted by m4rk540

Jeff, why do you like Ti so much?

Lasts forever...best ride in the world. Shows off REAL craftsmanship and attention to detail the best. It just grabs me. It's awesome. I know I'm nuts. I KNOW it.

[Jeff N.]

Originally Posted by cadence90

If you like 31.6mm ti posts (and I completely understand why, aesthetically as well on OS ti seatubes on frames your size) and you can't find a satisfactory stock one, I think the Bold Precision custom titanium seatposts are beautiful, rare, iconic, with nice hardware. They cost some, but on a top-shelf custom ti frame....
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Bold makes nice posts for sure. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzipp makes the most aesthetically pleasing alloy post out there right now, IMO, but 27.2 and 31.6 are the only options. If they only made a 30.9......

[m4rk540]

Originally Posted by Jeff N.

Lasts forever...best ride in the world. Shows off REAL craftsmanship and attention to detail the best. It just grabs me. It's awesome. I know I'm nuts. I KNOW it.

I think it's expensive, limited and boring. But I'm glad there are fans. The more bikes the better.

[Jeff N.]

Originally Posted by m4rk540

I think it's expensive, limited and boring. But I'm glad there are fans. The more bikes the better.

So what's YOUR flavor?

[m4rk540]

Carbon for a fast road bike; I'm a wannabe sprinter.

Steel for a pretty road bike: I'm superficial.

Aluminum for an everyday road bike; I'm practical.

[OtayBW]

Originally Posted by Jeff N.

Lasts forever...best ride in the world. Shows off REAL craftsmanship and attention to detail the best. It just grabs me. It's awesome. I know I'm nuts. I KNOW it.

I really didn't have much to say until this post, so a few comments:

• Lasts forever: OK
• Best ride in the world: If you say so...
• Shows off REAL craftsmanship and attention to detail the best: You're kidding, right?
• It just grabs me: THAT I can accept.
• It's awesome: Fine by me.
• I'm nuts. I KNOW it: No argument.

[avalonracing]

Originally Posted by Jeff N.

Lasts forever...best ride in the world. Shows off REAL craftsmanship and attention to detail the best. It just grabs me. It's awesome. I know I'm nuts. I KNOW it.

I'm with you, Jeff. Flashy paint on steel can be cool... until it gets scratched, dinged and starts to rust. Carbon can be light and the tube shapes fun... until one of those tubes is tapped in a tip-over or it has some unforeseen force stress a tube in a "direction it wasn't designed to be stressed" and it cracks. (Not to mention the noisy bottom brackets in 84 "standards"). But a brushed Ti bike with a BSC BB is strong, light, rides great and can look like new indefinitely with a $2 Scotchbrite pad.
Ti bikes FTW!

[Hellgate]

Call Max or Bill at DKCB, they'll hook you up. What do you want?

http://www.dkcb.us/

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[Jeff N.]

Originally Posted by Hellgate

Call Max or Bill at DKCB, they'll hook you up. What do you want?

http://www.dkcb.us/

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Spoke to them already...they'll sell complete bikes only. Strange.

[Hellgate]

Originally Posted by Jeff N.

Spoke to them already...they'll sell complete bikes only. Strange.

That's not correct. I've bought one complete bike, and a frameset that is due next week.

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