Originally Posted by
jet sanchEz
Early Ti stuff was generally regarded as flexy as hell, especially in the BB, so that is why it never caught on until Litespeed spent a lot of research/development on Ti in the '80s and '90s. Still, even Litespeed had some troubles and a lot of their models from the early 90s are pretty useless due to the huge flex issues.
Teledyne was an early Ti manufacturer and I don't think they have any value except as collectibles of a different era, they wouldn't be much use for riding.
Not to mention the metal fatigue of a 40+ year old Ti frame (from sitting in a storage room all those years). The alloys they had back then were not the best and would be close to useless today.
It would be like finding Carbon fiber frames from the mid-80s, heavy, soft and useless. And no, Kestrel isn't having a garage sale.