Show us your Titanium....

[AlanW]

I've also managed to get a brand new Ultegra 12sp Di2 groupset at a very responsible price to, so happy days.

Just ordered a pair of GP5000 All Season 28mm tubeless tyres, so once they arrive and fitted to my Hunt 40mm carbon wheels, the fun can begin putting it all together!

 

[T4tomo]

Needless to say and despite everything l said about Kinesis back in February, look what arrived today

so did they drop their price of a replacement frame in the end?

 

[AlanW]

so did they drop their price of a replacement frame in the end?

Yes, lve got the frame and a Ultegra 12sp Di2 groupset for less than the price of the Reilly frame.

In truth l'm still not 100% over the moon at having another Kinesis frame, but from a finance point of view, it's a win win.

 

[AlanW]

My Kinesis Ti rebuild is nearing completion and my mind is now about adding the finer finishing touches. Namely bottle cages?

As least with a painted frame you can go with bottles that have a splash of colour or be a tad boring and stick with all black. Them l thought, why not go for titanium bottle cages, other than the cost, why not?

Any possible suggestions, ideally with some photographic evidence to support your suggestion?

 

[Venod]

I can't recommend Ti cages as I have never owned any, but I use these cages all the time now, can be found at wildly differing prices.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32578735...sORPDIPRbG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[Sea of vapours]

The Silca ones are excellent and definitely 'reassuringly expensive'. Multiple colours too. Functionally, they do hold the bottles very well indeed, without being tight.
https://silcavelo.eu/collections/bottle-cages

 

[AlanW]

The Silca ones are excellent and definitely 'reassuringly expensive'. Multiple colours too. Functionally, they do hold the bottles very well indeed, without being tight.
https://silcavelo.eu/collections/bottle-cages

How much......yikes!!!

 

[Sea of vapours]

You did say '...other than the cost ...' :-)

 

[Soltydog]

My Kinesis Ti rebuild is nearing completion and my mind is now about adding the finer finishing touches. Namely bottle cages?

As least with a painted frame you can go with bottles that have a splash of colour or be a tad boring and stick with all black. Them l thought, why not go for titanium bottle cages, other than the cost, why not?

Any possible suggestions, ideally with some photographic evidence to support your suggestion?

I bought 1 Ti bottle cage as it's all they had in stock, but then couldn't match it up On a couple of my Ti bikes i've fit stainless cages, much cheaper than Ti & look very similar
https://www.cyclechat.net/media/e2.10623/full?d=1532612442

My new Ti bike I've gone for pink cages, but not sure about them, so ordered another to try. I'll post pics once I'm happy with it

 

[AlanW]

I've seen something similar on ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28474878...oPkvWziTdy&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[ianrauk]

I've only ever had trouble with Ti bottle cages. They seem to break very easy.

 

[T4tomo]

Surely with a Ti frame, cages, stem spacers, bolts etc are chance to add a splash of colour?

 

[Gunk]

Surely with a Ti frame, cages, stem spacers, bolts etc are chance to add a splash of colour?

I’m boring, Blackburn Ti cages on mine

 

[AlanW]

Surely with a Ti frame, cages, stem spacers, bolts etc are chance to add a splash of colour?

On one hand l agree while on t'other hand disagrees. Lets be honest, once you have seen one titanium bike you have really seen them all.
On my last titanium frame , l had red Hope bottom bracket shells, red Hope bar ends, red Hope skewers and a red Hope headset cap. Oh, black and red bottle cages.
Now initially l really liked it, but after a while l decided that it looked like a tarts handbag (no offense to anyone else that has a similar colour combination) and swapped everything over to boring black, again no offence to anyone for has this colour combination either!
This new build will be all black components again, which sort of limits bottle cage colour choice?
I do quite like oil effect bottle cages, (but dont like the price) as they would maybe go with the blue etching on the downtube?

 

[StuAff]

Tightwad option: LifeLine ones. £2.49. Match Ti nicely.

Glad to hear you got a positive result in the end!