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    THE ALTERNATIVE HI-TECH METHODS USING TITANIUM, ALUMINIUM AND CARBON

    Apr 30, 2020 3 minutes

    itanium is close to perfect as a material for bicycle frames. It is light, strong and highly resistant to corrosion. It is about half the weight of steel, but also is half as stiff, so tube diameters and wall thicknesses are increased in order to beef up Ti frames. Even so, titanium frames still end up lighter than comparable steel ones. For frame tubing, titanium is alloyed with aluminium and vanadium – the most common type is 3Al/2.5V, the numbers referring to the percentages of aluminium and

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