Also, titanium is about half as stiff (modulus of elasticity) as steel. Ti also has half the density of steel, so the stiffness to weight ratio of the two materials is about the same. This means that to keep a frame from being too flexible, the wall of a tube of titanium has to be thicker than a tube of steel, so much of the weight advantage of Ti in having a lower density than steel is lost.
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