Originally posted by fubar5
Well, if they(the manufacturers) didn't take weight savings to such an extreme level, Ti breaking would be pretty much an oxymoron.
I strongly suspect you're exactly right. Why? Because what you're describing is exactly what manufacturers tend to do: "refine" a concept till it's useless, the product breaks, the consumer is left with the bill, and the manufacturers go on to the next "great" thing, leaving perfectly good technology in the dust.
A few years ago, I saw ads for an automobile that bragged, "We've completely redesigned the xxx!" OK, I thought, how is it that the xxx was so great last year, and this year you had to completely re-design it? :confused: