My two bikes are quite different. Both road bikes but the first was intended as a do everything on pavement but tour or race. 28c and fenders. 3 X 9. It is stiff. Big tubes, moderately quick steering. (I do not like slow steering, high trail bikes.) The second is a purpose built road fix gear. Front end copied off a sport Peugeot that was married to a (probably) Bridgestone fork. Race quick steering. High BB for pedal clearance with 175s. Rear end dictated completely by the needs of the fix gear. (Super long, fully usable road style dropout for quick wheel flips.) The geared bike feels and functions like a really fine early '80s Japanese sport bike. The second, a full on '80 race bike, top of the line, in some alternative universe that never went to gears. Both bikes, despite being stiff, ride like ti over the rough stuff. Yes, a lot more input from the road surface than I would expect on say a Merlin with its much skinnier tubes, but still that ride where I have to curb the temptation to run my wheels over the worst pavement out there (even with steel forks on both bikes).

Speaking of steel forks on ti bikes - to date all the ti bikes I have ridden have had steel forks. It is my opinion that steel fork blades are a natural extension of the wonderful properties of titanium.

Like titanium, a material that functions in a fully elastic mode, but as a fork blade, the added stiffness compensates nicely for the fact that it is the only unsupported cantilever of any length on a bicycle.

And my dream? Get tubular tires on the fix gear. Make it a real race bike!

Ben