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Old 10-01-19 | 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Jrasero
Yeah I actually have seen some cool paint jobs on Ti, just not having paint is pretty awesome since you never have to worry about chips/fading and buffing out small scratches seems super easy
On the rivenuts, if they continue to be a problem, you can have braze-ons added by a titanium builder. Dean added 8 water bottle/rack mounts to the bike below for $280. They added two bottle mounts below the downtube for the splash guard, 4 rack mounts and 2 mounts for my winter fender system. It took about a month.

In addition to not having to worry about chipping the paint, the gray color of the titanium makes for a nice background for components with color, like this


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