Titanium bikes

Steve Gerdemann said:

Does anyone know when the first titanium bikes were made?
We have a custom job made here in 1972. I'm guessing this
is not the first but before any titanium bikes were
readily available to the public.

The earliest production Ti bike I can recall was made
by Teledyne:

classicrendezvous.comTeledyneOpen ↗
_titan.htm

The first one I saw was at a trade show, either 1973 or
1974.
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terry morse Palo Alto, CA bike.terrymorse.combike.terrymorse.comOpen ↗

Schwinn in 1956 made a titanium bike along with an aircraft
company (Boeing??) to show the non millitary use of
titanium. It was part of the Schwinn museum collection that
was on display in the bicycle museum in Chicago till
everything was auction off at it's close. I believe that it
is now in another bicycle museum north of Dayton, Ohio. This
was not a production model but it's amazing that a ti
bicycle did exsist that far back.

(EdDyMeRkX) said:

Schwinn in 1956 made a titanium bike along with an aircraft
company (Boeing??) to show the non millitary use of
titanium. It was part of the Schwinn museum collection that
was on display in the bicycle museum in Chicago till
everything was auction off at it's close. I believe that it
is now in another bicycle museum north of Dayton, Ohio.
This was not a production model but it's amazing that a ti
bicycle did exsist that far back.

How much did it weigh?

interesting. didn't the former soviet union field ti frames
for some of their olympic cycling teams in the 60's? i seem
to recall seeing an article on ti being used in their
precision persuit track events. anyone got the scoop?

jb

ps. it's "merckx"

EdDyMeRkX said:

Schwinn in 1956 made a titanium bike along with an
aircraft company (Boeing??) to show the non millitary use
of titanium. It was part of the Schwinn museum collection
that was on display in the bicycle museum in Chicago till
everything was auction off at it's close. I believe that
it is now in another bicycle museum north of Dayton, Ohio.
This was not a production model but it's amazing that a ti
bicycle did exsist that far back.

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Steve Gerdemann said:

Does anyone know when the first titanium bikes were
made? We

have a custom

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job made here in 1972. I'm guessing this is not the
first but

before any

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titanium bikes were readily available to the public.

The earliest production Ti bike I can recall was made by

Teledyne:

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classicrendezvous.comTeledyneOpen ↗
_titan.htm

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The first one I saw was at a trade show, either 1973
or 1974.

I think Speedwell had them beat by a few years. I believe
they had limited production in the '60s. I saw them before
the Teledyne's, but then again, that could be a matter of
personal experience and not market presence. -- Jay Beattie.