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Originally Posted by Atlas Shrugged
There is absolutely no science behind the narrative that titanium is a more comfortable frame material than, say, steel. It is a long-disproven myth not based in fact.
Although I suspect that cheaper Titanium frames may well be more "comfortable", i.e. more compliant, simply because there's less titanium in them. That seems to have been the case historically.

But, yeah - it's like saying "Aluminum frames are stiff".
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