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Why hasn't anybody made...

...titanium shifter and brake cable?

...carbon-fiber zip-ties?

Was admiring a friend's custom titanium bike yesterday. He had just taken delivery. Only two hours old. Hadn't even been ridden. What an uber-nice rig. Titanium even in the axles, and the downtube cable adjuster knobs are also titanium.

I suddenly realized that perhaps there might be a market for titanium shifter and brake cable. Do you think? I mean, people buy titanium rotor bolts, so why not titanium wire?

And then it seemed a shame for him to be attaching his new computer sensor to a carbon-fiber fork using plastic zip-ties.

Carbon-fiber zip-ties are probably a bit extreme, but I'm actually a bit surprised now that no one makes titanium cable.
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