Why not to buy a titanium bike frame

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Mik Efford

Titanium seems to top the list in CO2 footprint… ouch!

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6 Responses to Why not to buy a titanium bike frame

  1. Maryanne says:
    June 25, 2010 at 5:41 am

    Where did you get this data? Just curious.
    I found it odd that brick features so far down the list. I thought it was an energy intensive beastie due to all the cooking required.
    And then having ‘au naturale’ products like granite and slate further up – I wonder what they are taking into account there?
    Cheers.

  2. Mik Efford says:
    June 25, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    Hi Maryanne,

    The data was from the PDF I posted in the article previous on bio-resin. Here’s a link to it for you.
    Cheers,
    Mik

  3. Peter says:
    February 27, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    Kind of a strange way of looking at it. Most people that own titanium bikes own them for life. Titanium is one of the most durable bike materials. It wont corrode like steel, wont fatigue like aluminium, and wont fail like carbon fibre. By the time you have worn out your ‘normal’ frame material, titanium just goes on and on. Some might say ‘carbon neutral’…

  4. Crocodile Chuick says:
    August 22, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    Ti is like Al. They’re like, congealed metallic electricity. V expensive to smelt, refine.

  5. Mick says:
    July 17, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    Al fatigues, Ti doesn’t, A decent Ti bike frame made of a Ti alloy like 6/4 will have no problem lasting 50 or a hundred years. with heavy milage Al bikes fatigues & goes quite iffy stiffy in just 5 years or more

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