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titanium it’s going to be a high price it’s unlikely to ever change but one of the big advantages are it strength robustness and the chance that it could outlive and outperform of a different material again the bikes that we make here um they’re all intended as Lifetime Bikes you know I’m expecting that those bikes will be in existence for as long as their owner wants to ride a bike um and and that’s certainly something that you you wouldn’t perhaps say of other materials that inherently just won’t have such a uh a long service life
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If well made a Ti bike is good for your grandchildren long after you ve died.
Sure, titanium bikes will likely last you a lifetime. But what you gain in durability, you lose in bike weight as titanium bikes are on average, 3 times heavier than carbon fiber bikes. If you want to fast and competitively, carbon frame bikes are the way to go. There’s a reason why all bikes ridden in the Tour de France are carbon frame bikes.
Carbon. End of.
Literally all the advantages he's listing here are properties of a well-made CrMo steel frame. The only small advantage titanium might have over CrMo steel is the slightly lower weight. That's all.
I own (and occasionally ride) an old steel frame Bianchi roadbike whose frame and fork date back to the 1950s – and is hasn't lost any of it's great properties at all.