Originally Posted by
Roadrash3
I was recently in the market for a titanium frame I have owned lynskey and was seriously considering a moots. It's the price I have a hard time swallowing I don't feel that it is some super material, because I have seen titanium frames crack just as any other material, and titanium still flexes which they can eliminate with some carbon fiber but the fact that I could buy two top-of-the-line carbon fiber bikes for the price as one titanium since I don't tend to keep bikes for longer than five years I gave up on the idea
The Moots would likely be cheaper than a comparable CF frame and likely (barring some major incident) last you a lifetime. It even has a Lifetime warranty (unless they have changed that recently).
I cant and wont believe that the latest Trek or Specialized will do that and I doubt that even a CF frame from the likes of Parlee will either.
I have seen riding partners go through 3 Trek frames in the past 12 months. None from crashes. For a manufacturer such as Trek to simply hand the guy a new frame when iit cracked tells me that the mark up on those frames must be Gi-normous.
Out of interest, which "top of the line" carbon frames are you trying to compare to a Moots?