Originally Posted by 6strikekickball

Right now my only bike is a Surly Cross-Check that I love, but built with touring and utility in mind. Consequently it weighs 32ish pounds which seems like a lot to me as I am only 140 myself. I want to buy a lighter bike for when I'm just riding to ride/for fitness. I'll be doing mostly 30 to 50 mile rides. I want a frame that will last years, and titanium seems to be the way to go. I don't distrust carbon by any means, but I am pretty hard on my Surly (luckily it seems to be bulletproof) and do occasionally fall over. My price range is going to be a little shy of 3000 and I'll have to wait until around Christmas. I was excited to read about the Lynskey Cooper, it looks like a really great deal. A Ti frame from a respected builder with a lifetime warranty for under 1600 with a quality fork. I would love to try the rival group out, and it looks like that can be done with reasonably high quality wheels and etc for under 3000. I won't get a chance to visit a Lynskey dealer until late August though. Anyone ridden one/ heard anything? I can't seem to find too much about the bike. Also any recommendations of other ti bikes to check out would be much appreciated. I wasn't as impressed with the Xicon as I am with the Cooper. Not too sure if I'd be willing to chance getting a used bike off of Ebay (I'm still figuring out how I like my bike fitted and having only owned one bike am afraid to try and size myself to a frame without even having it physically in front of me).

Thank you