The titanium weld and detail appreciation thread.

[Woz]

1995 DBR Axis TT, by the late Sandvik Special Metals, USA. The most precisely made frame I've ever owned.

 

[Twozaskars]

Airborne Corsair, around 2000 I think.

 

[Twozaskars]

Airborne Mosquito, I think around 2004/5.

 

[Woz]

Old video from the then Airborne manufacturing plant.

 

[bikeworkshop]

My XACD custom made touring frame, aka gravelyventure.
Bike known as the TiBride
around 2007

 

[PanoIgano]

1995 DBR Axis TT, by the late Sandvik Special Metals, USA. The most precisely made frame I've ever owned.

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I am really lusting over a frame like this.

I was even considering a repaired one from Germany but it's too big in size:
https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anze...xis-tt-titan-rahmen-53-cm/3105477034-217-7493

 

[Woz]

^ Interesting advert description; never actually heard about failures concerning these frames till now.

With the repair which will probably hold up, still think that is a bit overpriced to be honest. Sold mine last year for more-or-less the same amount and included new original decals. All it needed was to be bead-blasted again.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I view repaired frames as usable but worthless - especially ti.

If it broke through crash, there may well be stress elsewhere.
If it broke through fatigue, then there's more fatigue, and it's a design flaw.

The repair is likely to have complex features built in - many repairs break again after a certain amount of use.

 

[bikeworkshop]

Minty seat cluster
My Orange vitamin T, Sandvik 1993 I was told, in 94.

Head tube welds, with "smug git" headset.

And the dropouts, with added disc and rack mount by the "much-loved" Vernon Barker.

This bike has been kept relevant and spent no time at all in storage in its full 3 decades of use, and this is one of the reasons

 

[24pouces]

1- my Passoni road bike
2- ti fork of my 1993 HeiHei (Sandvik)
3- 1990 Mc Mahon stem and frame (Sandvik)
4- 1999 Merlin Fatti
5- 1992 Merlin Mountain
6- 1992/93 Boulder Defuant ti