How do you tell..........
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velomaniac
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What about a sound test as steel has a resonance that when pinged that alu doesn't in comparison. Does Ti have a resonance or is it dull like alu ?
Agree the welds unless they're smooth like Canondale are likely to be a dead giveaway.
Agree the welds unless they're smooth like Canondale are likely to be a dead giveaway.
Its actually a set of Brahma bars on my DynaTech. 
Should have said before. I thought they were initially alu, but now i've been led to believe that RSP made some Ti ones, and these look like Ti. Shown here
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=175668
Should have said before. I thought they were initially alu, but now i've been led to believe that RSP made some Ti ones, and these look like Ti. Shown herehttp://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=175668
Could the fact that the bar is shimmed in the middle be a giveaway that its Ti? I'm just thinking along the lines that it is easy to draw Alu into shapes compared to Ti, and they are from '93 when the use of Ti in the bike industry was still somewhat in its learning stage. Just a thought. I'll have to remove them and see.I'll get some pics up when i've done so.
Thanks, i've followed all the advice and i believe they are Ti. I've even had the digi micrometer on them to check the thickness. The wall thickness is 1.45mm compared to 2.55mm for some alu bars of the same period. Anyway, some photo's:
And some not so great photo's.
And some not so great photo's.
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