I wasn’t going to respond since we all have different ideas about what “average” means in a unicycle and “better” is such a relative term.
But then someone said “Ti is just a steel alloy, only worth the extra cost if you have the $$” and I hate misinformation.
Steel is a iron alloy, usually with carbon (carbon steel), sometimes they add other stuff like chromium and molybdenum (CroMo steel)
Titanium is well Titanium, or more likely in the case of unicycle frames a Titanium alloy, meaning the base metal is still titanium.
I have a Ti frame but the fact that it is made from Titanium doesn’t make it awesome. The fact that it was custom made for my needs and does what no production frame can do awesome.
If I ever get another custom frame it will probably be steel.
But seriously, having worked with a frame builder on three interations of a custom Ti frame, trying out all sorts of tubing specs, leading to broken welds and other such issues due flex, and though I know there is a better way to build a Ti frame, ie Triton, I am not convinced that a Ti frame will lead to anything significantly better than steel or Al.
Yah titanium is more bling than a practical expense. It does have some nice properties, ie: corrosion resistance, but is harder to repair if it does break. If I had to pay money for that frame I would have probably went with Rick Hunter and his custom steel frames.
Custom ti frame is cool, but twice as cool as a custom steel frame? I don’t think so, but then I don’t put a huge value on bling either.
I have not seen this one for ages. I believed this is based on the standard design philosophy that is normally illustrated as a Venn diagram constructed with 3 circles.
The circles are named as:
A= Function
B= Aesthetic
C= Manufacture
Yes, it was a mistake. If you had looked at the orange which is in the same range it shows the right weight at 6.7kg. I have updated it now. Sorry about that. I had a quick look through the other figures quoted and can not see any obvious mistakes there.
and… yes it is lighter than the KH. This is not because the KH does not have a really nice lightweight frame and the Nimbus has a steel one, it is the other components that make the difference.
The saddle, seatpost, seatpost clamp, hub and cranks are all lighter so making the difference.
Like I said before, whenever I’ve checked the listed weights of KH’s and the nearest equivalent Nimbus model, the Nimbus always seems to be lighter.
Not that lightness is everything- obviously in some cases the heavier components could be stronger etc.
The only reason I mentioned it is because there does seem, on threads like this, a widespread assumption that KH’s are lighter than Nimbii, and, usually, the opposite is true.
