Originally Posted by VeganRider
This is an ode to ti, not plastic...
It's an "ode" to whatever I want it to be.
To put things in perspective, I have a rather new OCLV Trek too, but was hit head on this New Year's Eve on my much older titanium Litespeed. Was off work all winter with broken bones and not enough money to fix her, so.... I TOOK PARTS OFF THE OCLV to get the Litespeed back together. That says it all.
Unfortunately I don't have limitless amounts of funds to buy a bunch of bikes. I just recently built up a Trek 2500 frame (NOS that I picked up for $75) primarily for racing that set me back around $2,300. If I wanted to build up a $4-5k+ titanium bike, that would mean I'd have to put it all on credit cards, and that isn't happening.
I'm sure I'll get a titanium bike at some point (probably an Independent Fabrication), but I'm not really in a rush.