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
Which "top of the line" CF frames did you look at? A Moots frameset is $4000ish ballpark.
An off-the-shelf S-Works Tarmac is
$3750 frameset only
Trek's Madone 9 is
$5500 for frameset/seatpost
And Emonda SLR is
$4000 for frameset/seatpost
Top of the line CF...iof you're actually looking at top of the line....is just as expensive as a Moots. And what is more, those are off-the-shelf OEMd framesets, whereas with the Moots or Indy Fab or Seven or what have you-you can customize it.
This of course ignores brands like Foundry or Dean etc. that are more on a budget.