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Old 01-24-13 | 01:15 PM
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From: the pesto of cities

Bikes: Davidson Impulse, Merckx Titanium AX, Bruce Gordon Rock & Road, Cross Check custom build, On-One Il Pomino, Shawver Cycles cross, Zion 737, Mercian Vincitore, Brompton S1L, Charge Juicer

Bruce Gordon built a lugged all-ti frame which apparently is epoxied together.

http://brucegordoncycles.blogspot.co...r-kitchen.html

It's a show bike and a ton of work went into making it visually stunning, but if I were paying someone to build me a frame that's not the construction technique I would want. Plus fabricating the lugged bits would take an insane amount of time (and therefore expense).

OP - are you sure you don't mean Bocama lugs? NOS sets pop up on ebay from time to time. Any skilled builder would be able to reshape a chunkier modern lug set into something shapelier.

Just go all steel. Modern steel is very good, and while maybe not ti-light the money you save will be significant enough to allow you to lighten your bike in other places.
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