Originally Posted by RiPHRaPH
Now I ride a Lightspeed Ultimate, with the 6/4 & 3/2 Ti tubing. I find it stiffer than my buddy's lightspeed classic. But that is on a 59cm framset.
Roadwarrior: there is a difference between someone buying a Legend Ti (outswide the budget of this questioner?!) and completing it with a weight weenie saving CF material and someone who buys a Al bike and NEEDS to buy the road dampening effect of CF (i knew someone would bring that up, good catch)
**BTW: this is all good clean fun. again, if this original questioner is riding on the beat up, potholed roads many of us ride on, the ride characteristics of materials become more apparent.
Riphraph, if the bike is stiff it shouldn't matter whether it is made out of Ti or aluminum. A stiff bike is a stiff bike. They both are going to ride hard.
If you want a frame with some flex in the tubing you'll have to go with a material with a fatigue limit. You can't do this with aluminum. To me that is the main difference.
I'll go ride a Vortex next I think. (litespeed's high performnace bike)