[Closed] Show me your Ti Road bikes...

... 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

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 🙂