that is rather interesting mr tatenfield. in all I have read about the Cygnus I never heard that before. golf clubs was driving the price up for few years in the mid '90s I believe.
personally I like the ride of my MAX frames better than my Ti for some reason. I would describe the reaction more as sticker shock, and perhaps in the early days of Spectrum and Merlin the Ti frame market was still tainted by the Teledyne failure.
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