Titan Ti 29er

Let me check, I forget!

Don't want to derail Nick's post but as far as I remember the dropper cable went down the down tube, out inside the BB shell, I routed it in front of the crank axle and BB spacer I think and up the seat tube. Bit of a pain to get fitted, think I removed the cable port and used a piece of inner slid upwards from the bb and hooked it out of the port, then used it to guide the outer down again. The rest of the cabling is external on mine.

stevet1 said:

Don't want to derail Nick's post but as far as I remember the dropper cable went down the down tube, out inside the BB shell, I routed it in front of the crank axle and BB spacer I think and up the seat tube. Bit of a pain to get fitted, think I removed the cable port and used a piece of inner slid upwards from the bb and hooked it out of the port, then used it to guide the outer down again. The rest of the cabling is external on mine.

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I thought that must be how it goes but it just looks like such a tight corner. I will give it a go

Okay, so I did change a few things and have received my final frame drawing that I have now approved. I opted to go for a T47 BB in the end. BB30 wasn't such a great idea in hindsight and I think T47 will give me lots of felxibility in the future as to what cranks I can run.

I also asked for a longer ISP, now 740mm instead of 700mm - too short is a big problem, too long, not so much!

I also had fixings added to the seat-stay and chainstay bridges for mounting full mudguards. Although this is very much going to be a hardtail for most of the time, having options for a rack and mudguards is just sensible. I also had additional rivnuts added to the seat tube so a second bottle can be used on the bike.

Here is the final drawing:

Good call on the T47 BB I reckon.

stevet1 said:

Good call on the T47 BB I reckon.

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Yeah i think it will be. Gonna wait until i get the frame before ordering some of the parts i need. That way i can check all the dimensions and specs are correct.

T47 is a much better way to go

Got photos of my frame sent and made the final payment a few days ago and shipping has begun. I'm excited to see it when it arrives in (probably) a number of weeks.

My initial plan was to use my lefty fork as I have nice carbon wheels I'm gonna use. However, I now have a matching front wheel without the lefty hub and have also ordered a secondhand Reba fork so that I can migrate to something less proprietary if needed.

The frame is coming with a headset, I've got my BB sorted and the rest will just be a changeover job. I currently have magura MT5s that I was gonna swap over but... I bought an older himod Flash 26er a couple of weeks ago which needs new brakes (and a few other things) so I think maguras will go on there and Hope brakes from @wynne can then go onto this build instead.

One thing I still need to source is a 34.9mm seatpost topper. Not many options. Titan make one but I'ma go for one from KCNC instead as it looks a bit nicer and is about half the weight.

So my frame arrived today which is a bit earlier than expected! It was very well packed and arrived safely.



The other small parts that came with the frame: rear thru axle and the titanium headset which looks nice actually. I was meant to get a set of QR sliding dropouts but they only sent one by mistake so I'll need to follow up on that. I have end caps to run 142x12mm so not a pressing issue.



I have checked the frame over and it looks very made to spec. All the requests i had have been fulfilled and the welding is very neat. I've had a feel of the bolts and they're all very easy to turn in.



The upper headset bearing protrudes a few mm from headtube which means I'll need to get a slimmer bearing if I want to run my lefty. I put the second hand Reba's in to check fitment and all works nicely. The fork crown was expected to hit the downtube but they clear so thats much better than expected.



In goes the T47, threaded in by hand so threads are well cut and clean. I'll leave that in for now.



Total weight of the frame with dropouts is 2.2kg. Not too bad, heavier than I am used to but I should still be able to keep the build around 10kg I imagine plus I need to trim the ISP to length once my topper arrives (final part!)

What's next?: Well from here, i still need the ISP topper. I don't want a black one but it'll have to be that way initially due to whats available out there. Bike24 have one but no shipping to the UK it seems.

I can't really do much to the frame in the meantime. The bike with donor parts is still in use so I'll wait until i have the final part then pick a date to fit everything over and take more photos. I do have some generic heli-tape that I want to apply. The 29er Cannondale Flash is the only bike i've kept since new and I want to ensure I look after this bike. So apply some frame protection from the get-go should help with that.

Heli tape applied yesterday