Hold buying that titanium frame?

[mikeymustard]

Anyone spot this in the news today?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/porton-down-scientists-on-brink-of-titanium-revolution
Maybe I'll be able to afford a ti bike after all!

 

[Soltydog]

Hope the price reduction kicks in before the end of the year when I'm likely to be getting N+1 I wonder how much of a frame cost is materials & how much of it is labour? Probably not going to make mega bucks savings on a bike, but fingers crossed

 

[ianrauk]

Planet X will be giving them away.

 

[mikeymustard]

Hope the price reduction kicks in before the end of the year when I'm likely to be getting N+1 I wonder how much of a frame cost is materials & how much of it is labour? Probably not going to make mega bucks savings on a bike, but fingers crossed

I'm guessing that would be fairly easy to work out by looking at the cost of identical frames in steel and ti - for instance, a steel equilibrium 725 frame is about 500 while the same in ti is 2 grand?

 

[Soltydog]

I'm guessing that would be fairly easy to work out by looking at the cost of identical frames in steel and ti - for instance, a steel equilibrium 725 frame is about 500 while the same in ti is 2 grand?

Not sure a Ti frame costs £1500 extra in materials though, my Van Nic was £1400 for a complete bike

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Too late. I’m in love with my Elan. And love is blind.

 

[Brandane]

Oh well, that's just killed the resale value of the carbon bike I bought in January. I'll just need to keep it forever then!

 

[mikeymustard]

Not sure a Ti frame costs £1500 extra in materials though, my Van Nic was £1400 for a complete bike

Just going by the 1st prices I found

Oh well, that's just killed the resale value of the carbon bike I bought in January. I'll just need to keep it forever then!

there's always N+1

 

[GuyBoden]

Anyone spot this in the news today?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/porton-down-scientists-on-brink-of-titanium-revolution
Maybe I'll be able to afford a ti bike after all!

"Porton Down has revolutionised the production of titanium"

There is evidence that the Russians are using military grade Titanium.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Too late. I’m in love with my Elan. And love is blind.

That is not an Elan, it is a custard flan.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I saw on the web that nettles contain 80 ppm of titanium.
Something to think about.

 

[mikeymustard]

I saw on the web that nettles contain 80 ppm of titanium.
Something to think about.

so how much would be needed to make a tubeset?

 

[Gravity Aided]

A very common element titanium. Aluminum was a costly precious metal when it was being made in laboratory conditions, but when mass production became feasible, it became inexpensive.

 

[Gravity Aided]

so how much would be needed to make a tubeset?

Maybe most of the nettles in England, but that will also remove nettles from the countryside, so a big win-win.

 

[IBarrett]

Unless you're a butterfly. They would surely boycott NettleTi