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Distinguishing Aluminum from Titanium?
this cannot be a new question, but I have searched the archives and haven't immediate found anything related.
given that frame stickers can be had cheaply that say anything you want (and so you can slap an SLX or Titanium sticker on anything), how could you tell if a painted (paint preventing you from easily tell the color of the material) frame - assumiing it's not one of the top Titanium brands - is Aluminum or Titanium?
weight doesn't seem to be an obvious differentiator - I see an aluminum Colnago is listed as 1308g vs a L LItespeed at 1344g, almost the same.
Last edited by pstock; 03-19-21 at 01:18 PM.