Originally Posted by
datlas
Any frame material can fail.
Ti has a reputation for durability as it won’t rust and should not break even from a crash the way carbon might. But as a recent thread showed, even a Ti frame can crack or break.
Originally Posted by
UCantTouchThis
I know a rider who rode a ti bike bike that broke at the downtube. Everything and anything can break.
Of course it's true that any frame material can fail. But it is simply not possible for all materials to
fail at the same rate or in the same manner. One material or another absolutely must fail more often and/or more catastrophically than others. This fact is often ignored or side stepped in these frame material threads.
Maybe it doesn't matter. If the most failure prone material* still fails at an extremely low rate, why care? Then again, if that failure is more likely than other material failures to lead to a serious injury inducing crash, some might care.
*CF
