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Old 11-12-21 | 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Rdmonster69
By all means post your bike. Would love to see it !! I don't think titanium suffers from galvanic corrosion or react much with any other metal but I will research. The Ritchey fork has 3mm more rake than the stock fork. Hope that's not a big difference in handling etc. I wish the head tube was 1 1/8 as that would give me lots of options compared to 1 inch.

ETA the headsets are 150 but on the Chris King website. Not bad but pricey compared to runnof the mill headsets. I got black with white lettering....was gonna go red but want the seat to match.?....keeping it low key lol.
Black with white lettering sounds nice. There is a Chinese eBay seller that makes a really cool 1" titanium stem that takes 31.8mm handlebars. I bought 2 for myself. The original ad for the 1" one might not be up any more but on the ad for the 1-1/18" steerer one, there may be a "custom" option that you can select. I'll have to check back with you on this.

I will post a photo or two of my titanium Veritas later tonight or tomorrow (I work 12 hour shifts and am pretty spent right now - haha). By the way, I have carbon Ritchey everything on this Veritas: fork, stem (carbon over aluminum), handlebars and best of all is the "Superlogic/Flexlogic 27.2 x 350mm 2 bolt (for 7x9 carbon saddle rail) seatpost. The seatpost has the "Flexlogic" feature which means it has some built in compliance. This feature, combined with the titanium frames inherent shock dampening qualities and running slightly lower tire pressures with my tubeless wheels (right now I have my latex tubed wheels on there while I have my tubeless rear wheel re-spoked by my LBS wheelbuilder). This bike can be ridden pretty much in the "gutter" over broken pavement without all the shock and discomfort compared to my days of riding high pressure clinchers with butyl inner tubes and not as compliant tires.
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