Originally Posted by Rowan
Impressive. Are your tooth fillings Ti too?
Ti chains on a tandem would cost more than a Litespeed!
Impressive description even though you forgot the hyphens and
Don't mentioned Litespeed in front of slvoid and ultra-g. Especially the price. A sore point, Hitchy and I believe.
You know, some dude was at the start of one of our cycleways a few weeks ago posing on a Litespeed. I had the courtesy to stop and say "Litespeed! Hmmm." (or more like, Yummmmm). I think he looked at my Fuji Touring with some disdain, then said: "Yeah, it is. It's nice", then went back to looking into the middle distance through his fancy shades. Must have been some wanky tourist from the mainland waiting for his inferior ride partner to catch up.
Damn, I didn't know Ti fillings were available! Seriously though, I feel bad that the prices here are so high, it's a big ripoff. From what I can see, it's the fault of "exclusive distributors", not your local LBS. But I import all my stuff myself, and that saves me heaps. I'm sure now that the AU$ is so high, we'll see a drop in prices. Not. You guys would make fun of my brother and his shiny bike, hey? That's fine. We only went with Ti for the tandem because that's what the builder uses. It's got couplers like S&S makes so we can take it apart when we travel. If the builder worked in steel, we would have gotten that instead. I'm just too big for a skinny tire road bike on Newcastle's poor roads. I hope you guys don't me having a sticky at this forum.