To appreciate how sublime Ti really is, you have to ride it for a while. Once you do, it gets you, and that's it. I'll always have a Ti bike. That being said, CF really is better for racing for several reasons (lighter, stiffer BB) but overall, if I had to pick one bicycle, it would be Ti like my Ibis or those Lynskey bikes. Nothing really matches that Ti 'zing', it's like some organic leaf spring under you all the time, it has never gotten old for me, and I've been on Ti road bikes continuously since 1991. Now that I have the Ti MTB I always wanted but never could justify, it's even better. If you can have a Ti and a CF bike like I get to switch back and forth between, that's ideal.