Looking at Ti road bikes at the moment. Liking Sabbath and Litespeed. Any others I should be looking at?
Andy
Moots
Merlin
Derosa
IF
Seven
Enigma
Any pics?
Van Nicholas
Here's my Planet X Sportive. Loving it so far.
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Van Nicholas
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Cube Lightning HPT......Tapered headtube,internal routing,full ultegra,fulcrum wheels........£2600!!!! BARGAIN or what.
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I love my Litespeed. It's a Tuscany from 2004 and it's brill! I use it throughout the winter and Just rebrush the frame to have it looking like new again. Bought the frame off here a while ago.
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Moda do a couple of titanium road bikes, the Motif and the Nocturne. See http://www.eurobike.uk.com/list.aspx?CAT=65 (can't post the pics from that site).
Check out the American custom show footage from the other week on hear and bike radar if u have the budget for it 🙂
The cube is lovely. The litespeed is also looking good.
Thanks for the pics. Keep em coming!
go checkout Enigma bikes.... whilst their Ti bikes are first class, their Stainless Steel are even nicer than Ti.
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2006 Omega Alchemy - barely used as I much prefer carbon.
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Sabbath September here I like it but don't hardly use it as tend to cx more than owt
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Lynskey Cooper
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Qoroz look nice too - got to see one in the flesh a couple of weeks back and looked very together
Dunno how tall you are, andy, but I've been watching this one on ebay (no, I'm not the seller):
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qoroz are nice...
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So far I am pleased with my VN Euros - would have loved a deRosa Titanio but that is just silly money. I did consider the Sabbath silk road but that would have been a custom build for me. I looked at the Qoroz but wasn't overly impressed with them when I saw them in the flesh. Another name to add to the list - Everti.
6ft. Do you have a link to the ebay auction?
I have to say I've got a massive craving for the cube so far.
2nd winter for me on this. Its sublime. I get really used to it then back to plastic for summer but I have a hankering for another Titanium summer ride.
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I sold this a couple of years ago to a boy on here.
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High fives Sabbath September buddy 😉 keep meaning to sell it as I hardly touch it but then I get it out and change my mind . I really don't need it but I can't seem to bear the thought of not having it mmm
Currently on a Sabbath Silk Road, lovely bike! Going all upmarket soon though, have placed an order for one of these:
Indy Fab Ti 'Factory Lightweight'
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Picking it up from the Somerville factory in person late April! 😀
Independent......nice! Picking it up in person, priceless. 🙂
GJP
If you hardly ride your Omega - what size and how much?
With Ti may I respectfully suggest that Enigma/Sabbath is the way to go you will get a bespokish or full bespoke service for not much more than an import
A properly fitted Ti frame is a lifetime purchase so get it fitted as close as you can
PS I know about the contradiction inherent in post above but the headtube length looks good compared to Alchemys Ihave seen...
winterfold- point taken. I may pop into Sabbath on friday.
Winterfold, the Alchemy is a medium (55cm TT). To the best of my knowledge they are the same geometry as the new Enigma Ti frames. I may be thinking of selling the frame and forks in a few weeks. email in profile. Gary
I've got two. A Seven Alaris, which has done me good since 2005 and a Lynskey Sportive which I built up for LEJOG last year and now use for touring, winter riding and commuting.
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Built this up at the weekend (sadly with the parts from my old winter bike). Did 60 hilly miles yesterday, really nice to ride.
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Will be getting some new wheels this week (Dura Ace, Open Pro, Sapim Laser, Alu Nips) as the ones in the pic are borrowed from my cross bike.
^ Nice, with the brushed finish. Not so sure about the pink flashes, gay-blade. 😉
Airborne used to do one that I really liked the look of...
... but wasn't riding road bike at the time, so bought a Lucky Strike.
Manhattan Project IIRC - lovely looking thing
I got a Yukon recently, am considering adapting it for cx duties, there's a nice Bruell on ebay just now.
Saw a bike just like that in my LBS just had Dura Ace wheels fitted funny that.
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Planet X Ti Pro Road, I think it was a 'Ti Pro Race' when I bought it. Lynskey built and lovely.
I might upset a few folks now...
... but none of the above are the sort of gorgeous, droolworthy Ti bike pron that I would have expected.
IMO a road bike should look fast even standing still - clean lines, simple, eye pleasing beauty etc??
The qoroz comes close - perhaps if it was a polished frame...
clean lines, simple, eye pleasing beauty etc??
Kind of know what you mean - the understated ti look doesn't tie-in so well with road stuff IMO, something like a early 90s Kona Heihei is the pinnacle fo that look IMO.
Mine is intentionally stealthy. If I'd wanted something loud I'd have bought a plastic one.
Mine is intentionally stealthy. If I'd wanted something loud I'd have bought a plastic one.
Not really "loudness" that I was refering to - more "quiet, understated beauty"...
cynic-al - Memberthere's a nice Bruell on ebay just now.
Sorry, I thought you meant Baum. 😳
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fixie inc
quite nice 😉
... but none of the above are the sort of gorgeous, droolworthy Ti bike pron that I would have expected.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm more concerned over how my bike rides than whether it gives you wet knickers or not. Show us your very own droolworthy slice of Ti bike pron (sic.) why don't ya.
... but none of the above are the sort of gorgeous, droolworthy Ti bike pron that I would have expected.
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Looks like a pistol from the wild west. Taste is subjective I suppose, but those intricately engraved Merlins are not my cup of tea. Its a tool not an ornament imo. ❗
I've never been tempted by the engaging. But then I've never fancied a tattoo either. Plain and simple, that's me.
I might upset a few folks now...... but none of the above are the sort of gorgeous, droolworthy Ti bike pron that I would have expected.
IMO a road bike should look fast even standing still - clean lines, simple, eye pleasing beauty etc??
The qoroz comes close - perhaps if it was a polished frame...
Yeah... I kind of agree, although that blue one up there ^ has redressed the balance a little.
I put a Moots post on my Cannondale CAAD9 the other day, and although I'll be leaving it on, the sort of organic swoopiness and matt lustre of the Moots doesn't really go with the big butch aluminium tubing and team graphics.
Last year's Cubes were quite nice, can't find a picture of the £7000 one though...
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Here's a side on shot my Seven Alaris as it was back in 2006. A bit old fashioned by today's standards, with its skinny tubes and skinwall tyres but it still rides like a dream.
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13thfm - I much prefer the graphics on this years LPTs
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Last year's Cubes were quite nice, can't find a picture of the £7000 one though...
Sorry, that looks alarmingly like a tube of multi-striped toothpaste, titanium trying hard to look like carbon, nasty. But each to his or her own eh...
Show us your very own droolworthy slice of Ti bike pron (sic.) why don't ya.
Sadly, I don't have any online hosted photos, and a "quick" trawl of Joolze's site wasn't going to turn up any of me riding it without having any old race numbers close at hand. Today, it hangs in the garage as a stripped, craked frame, whilst I contemplate the feasibility / economics of repair 🙁
Suffice to say, it looked wonderful, rode even better, but being relatively skinny tubed (by today's standards) didn't photograph too well.
Perhaps it is part of the appeal of "big" bikes to the marketeers - photograph well and plenty of room for corporate logos etc?
The blue big above ^ is what I call a road bike - that looks fast - would be fab with a raw metal polished frame
Van Nic Yukon, very comfy to ride and has a lifetime warranty 🙂
But if buying again Id go for Druidhs bike, an Amazon?, as I like idea of discs and wider tyres to cope with appalling state of country lanes, BUT unless someone knows of a disc specific CAMPAG 🙂 hub I`m not changing, as all my road equipment is Campy 🙂
The blue big above ^ is what I call a road bike - that looks fast - would be fab with a raw metal polished frame
Oh come on, you're just getting carried away with the spangly paint job, the low camera angle and the dry ice in the background 😉 It just looks like a bog standard road bike with some designery graphics. It's simple on here - 1. Garish paint-job 2. Camera angle that makes the bike look poised and dynamic, lower front end, strong diagonal line. 3. Brand no-one's heard of... - and suddenly, 'oooh, that's what I call a road bike etc.
The nice thing about ti is that it's simple and restrained and subtle, not like some tart's boudoir of a carbon fibre rainbow bike... And it's about the ride, not the looks anyway. I'm not saying bikes aren't or can't be beautiful, but come on 🙂 😉 😕
Disc specific campag hub - erm Hope ? Are the freehubs not interchangeable between road and off road hubs ?
Also what about a stainless bike like the Fixie Inc,Enigma, Cinelli or any of the other builders using 953 or XCR tube sets.
Oh come on, you're just getting carried away with the spangly paint job,
Nope - I specifically said it would look good in the raw metal...
the low camera angle
Yep - that certainly helps
and the dry ice in the background
Nope, not worried about the smoke - although the professional studio lighting will definately be helping the overal finished image...
The nice thing about ti is that it's simple and restrained and subtle, not like some tart's boudoir of a carbon fibre rainbow bike
I agree completely - hence my initial comment about clean simple lines.
Have found a few of my (non road) Ti bike
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jamesbb I am currently considering a non-permanent DIY Yukon disc conversion 😎
Loads of options for disc brakes and campag gears.
Here just a few:
Mavic cassette - shimano fit/campag spacing
St Jonh Street Cycles - sell a US made inline cam for the gear cable which means campag shifters and shimano cassette.
DT Swiss 240 hub - with a campag freehub body (the option I have)
Or come to think of it an ambrosio cassette that I have which runs Campag 10 speen on a shimano freehub body!
Cheaper than a cmapg cassette too
Hope don`t from my correspondence with them do a campag disc hub, as above I thought I could just swop shimano / campy freehubs; but thanks also for other info 🙂