Frame Material

"dreamlx10" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Got this from the BBC cycling website;

The choice of frame material for the serious mountain climber is titanium, the lightest material
in the sport but one that can be hard work to ride for long distances. !!!!!

Hmm - news to me, given Ti's reputation for providing a comfy ride. Yet another sparkling example of
Beeb journalism?

David E. Belcher

Dept. of Chemistry, University of York

[email hidden] (David E. Belcher) spake thusly to the assembled multitudes, agog with
barely concealed anticipation:

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Hmm - news to me, given Ti's reputation for providing a comfy ride. Yet another sparkling example
of Beeb journalism?

It's all down to geometry and preconceptions, though. You can get a hard-riding Ti bike just as you
can get a soft-riding alu machine....

"Julian Barkway" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

[email hidden] (David E. Belcher) spake thusly to the assembled multitudes, agog with
barely concealed anticipation:

Quoted message said:

Hmm - news to me, given Ti's reputation for providing a comfy ride. Yet another sparkling example
of Beeb journalism?

It's all down to geometry and preconceptions, though. You can get a hard-riding Ti bike just as
you can get a soft-riding alu machine....

not to mention tyre choice...