Eurobike has been dominated by carbon fibre frames for years but plenty of other materials have a strong presence, including titanium which has a loyal fanbase. Here are 13 ti bikes that caught our eye…
Litespeed, which makes its bikes exclusively in the USA, will be adding a new disc brake model shortly in the shape of the Cherohala SE.
It’s made to an endurance geometry from 3AL-2.5V titanium and will take tyres up to 30mm wide.
The T1SL road bike is made from a combination of 3Al/2.5V and 6Al/4V titanium.
Litespeed boasts that it’s the lightest ti frame on the market: 1,000g for the rim brake version, 1,175g for the disc brake version.
Moots is another US brand. The Vamoots Disc RSL is designed as a lightweight and stiff road bike. The frame comes with a 142 x 12mm thru axle dropout and you get a 44mm head tube for strength and stiffness up front.
The s Gravel (yes, s Gravel) from Swiss brand Hilite has a 142 x 12mm thru axle dropout too. It can take 700C wheels with 32mm cyclocross tyres or 650b wheels with mountain bike tyres up to 47mm in width. The frame has eyelets for mudguards and a rack.
Germany’s Falkenjagd makes its frames exclusively from titanium. The Aristos Cyclocross Gravelracer is designed to be ridden both on and off-road. It’s built up here with SRAM Force 1x shifters and rear derailleur with all of those orange components coming from Tune.
Rabbit Cycles is another German brand. This is the Road Classic in a Shimano Dura-Ace build with a leather saddle and bar tape.
And this is the Road Disc with Bike Ahead’s six spoke biturboRoad wheels.
Dedacciai’s Titanio 25 comes with external cable routing, a tapered head tube (1 1/8in to 1 1/2in), and a threaded bottom bracket. The claimed frame weight (size M) is 1,450g.
Van Nicholas has just revealed its new Yukon Disc, an all-road model with space for 35mm tyres and a full complement of rack and mudguard mounts. A rim version has been in the Van Nicholas range for years.
Find out more about the Van Nicholas Yukon Disc here.
Here’s Van Nicholas’ Skeiron Disc which won a Eurobike 2017 Gold Award in the Racing Bikes category.
Passoni’s Top Evolution is a classic-looking road bike with mostly 3Al/2.5V titanium tubes, although 6Al/4V is used for the head tube, bottom bracket shell and dropouts.
The graphics are applied directly to the tube by sandblast.
Santana is a Californian tandem specialist and this is the Beyond, made from a combination of titanium and Kevlar-reinforced carbon tubing that’s made in-house.
Nevi’s Spinas is titanium right down to the fork – 3Al-2.5V except for the 6Al-4V deep section down tube, bottom bracket shell and dropouts.
24 thoughts on “Eurobike 2017: The best titanium bikes”
that Passoni though….
that Passoni though….
ianguignet wrote:
I can’t decide between that and the Van Nicholas, both look very good
RobD wrote:
I’d happily settle for either of those!
nortonpdj wrote:
Fugly saddle and leaving it on a show stand in the inner ring with campag on it. I think anyone who’s gone to specsavers would take the VN any day of the week.
Kinesis Tripster V2 takes
Kinesis Tripster V2 takes 45mm tyres, disc brakes, mudguards, pannier racks, 3 bottles, Di2 internal ready and threaded bottom bracket
What else would you need?
Not convinced the latest
Not convinced the latest Shimano or Campagnola Cranks look very good on any Ti frames.
The old 9000 D-A crank used to look good on a Ti frame. The Sram Red and Force cranks seem to look better too (not any shown above).
As much as I like Ti, if it
As much as I like Ti, if it is combined with a CF fork it won’t really appeal to me as a lifetime bicycle.
cyclisto wrote:
Carbon forks are very robust, in a accident a ti forks could suffer just as much. Forks can be exchanged
cyclisto wrote:
My Time composite forks from my 1990791 team rep Gitane are still going strong, Mizuno 1″ full carbon forks on my Raleigh titanium are amazing, the CF forks on my Spesh Globe pro have being involved in a hit and run and 2 other incodents were I was injured due to other pareties fault and they are still solid as anything,.I’ve also used the bike to carry loads up to 90kg on top of my 100kg+ without issue (the steerer is alu too) honestly your statement doesn’t make much logical sense.
If CF is as strong as Ti then
If CF is as strong as Ti then simply go buy a CF frame that will be lighter, cheaper and more laterally stiff/vertically compliant. And the manufacturers would stop giving 5year warranties to CF frames and keep the lifetime warranty that applies to other frame materials. But as I said, if.
I did countless thousands of
I did countless thousands of miles on an alloy bike with a carbon fork. Eventually the frame was written of in a crash, but the fork was as new. I’m not sure why having a carbon fork would ever be part of the equation when buying a bike?
I did hundreds of thousands
I did hundreds of thousands of miles on a car. Eventually the car was written when a lorry rear ended it when parked, but the engine was as new. I am not sure why engine reliability would ever be a part of the equation when buying a car, especially when I have such reliable and unbiased statistics from my own experience described above.
cyclisto wrote:
Very true, but there is no evidence in your posts to support your argument that CF forks won’t last a very long time.
cyclisto wrote:
I’ve met plenty of people who’ve had a car with engine trouble, but I’ve never yet met a person who’s had an issue with a carbon fork deteriorating over time. It just doesn’t happen.
Trigger had the same sweeping
Trigger had the same sweeping brush for 20 years.
It had 5 new handles and 12 new brushes 😀
Nevi spinas is my dream bike,
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Strathbean wrote:
According to the Nevi website, it’s a threaded (BSA) bottom bracket.
http://www.nevi.it/p/spinas
Mat Brett wrote:
Aha, thanks Mat, sorry Nevi! I was getting it mixed up with the lynskey r460. The dream lives on haha
Mat Brett]
According to the Nevi website, it’s a threaded (BSA) bottom bracket.
http://www.nevi.it/p/spinas
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Nevi can put Pressfit but the company doesn’t recommed it
@sniffer as I have mentioned
@sniffer as I have mentioned before but everybody chose to overpass, many manufacturers who give lifetime warranty to metal frames will not give a lifetime warranty to CF frames, often at bikes with the same purpose. I don’t really claim this, it is the manufacturers themselves who tell us.
I suppose I put less store in
I suppose I put less store in why companies give warranties. They are marketing as much as anything else.
Enjoy your search for the bike that fits your dreams. It is not for me to challenge your assumptions on what will make you happy with a bike,
Far better value to be had out there.
These would all have to be something very special indeed, in order that they can offer, value, comfort, and performance over and above that which my Dolan Ti ADX does! Best frame I have ever ridden.
I like it the look of the
I like it the look of the Reilly 325ti any one seen one ??
I used to have a Van Nicholas
I used to have a Van Nicholas Ventus. It looked lovely, but I needed something with mudguard clearance for winter. So, I swapped all the components onto a Kinesis T3, an aluminium frame that cost about 20% of the price of the VN.
The T3 is nicer to ride. It’s comfier and just as fast, although handles a little more slowly.
Now, about that magical Ti ride quality…