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Old 07-28-11 | 07:51 AM
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Bikes: 1996 Litespeed Classic, 2006 Trek Portland, 2013 Ribble Winter/Audax, 2016 Giant Talon 4

Ti is like any other material. How you design and build with it determines whether it's flexy or stiff enough to knock the fillings out of your teeth, not the material itself.

Early Ti bikes were too flexy until builders got used to the material and started building Ti bikes with techniques, tubing sizes and thicknesses appropriate to Ti, rather than building them in the same way they built steel bikes.
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