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TITANIUM BIKES TESTED
Titanium is one of the most abundant metals on Earth and yet titanium
bikes aren’t cheap. This is down to the intensive extraction and refinement needed to turn it into the metal tubing, and the specialist skills then needed to to build those into a frame. But for many riders the investment is worth it for the ‘magic carpet’ ride titanium promises. You see, titanium’s incredibly strong, making it more resistant to fatigue than aluminium or steel, plus it doesn’t rust. It’s also around half as dense as steel, and can be built into thinner, lighter tubes than aluminium ones. And it manages all this while maintaining similar stiffness levels to steel and a superbly comfortable ride. And although not as light as carbon, even the priciest carbon frames struggle to match titanium for comfort.