Originally Posted by
HillRider
Uhhh, folks, I do think Jonathan was proposing all of these things with tongue firmly planted in cheek. At least i hope so.
Yes, indeed. Tongue-in-cheek. Mostly.
OTOH, cycling is a bizarre world in which people do insane things to shave grams. It would not surprise me too awfully much to find that there might be some who would spend the money for carbon-fiber zip-ties.
And the idea of titanium wire did seem about as useful as titanium rotor bolts, and plenty of the latter get sold.
Mark, your information about strength and abrasion resistance is interesting. Thanks for posting up with that.
So the zip-tie thing, yeah, I was not real serious about that. The titanium wire, that I was curious about, whether anyone had ever thought of it or made it.