Originally Posted by cavernmech
The whole kit and kabooble is TI. Because of the flexy nature of TI the extra triangulation provides stiffness for steering response. It flexes a fair bit for give in the rough stuff. Merlin did something very similar years ago but gave up on it due to the work and cost involved.
If we are talking about Ti I have a question:
I had my friend I'm going to be touring with over from Hamilton last weekend and he was inspecting my bike stash. He found my XTR cassette I got at the fall bike show and immediately starting telling me it was not a great choice because some of the cogs are titanium so they will wear faster. Wouldn't the titanium cogs wear slower than the Al cogs? Do I actually have to worry?