|   difference between AL and Ti? | bike rider
Oct 29, 2002 9:34 AM | | Recently posted to our website (www.penncycle.com)....
How can you tell, when looking at a piece of bike equipment, if it's aluminum or titanium? I'm referring to if you view it in person, such as skewers or hubs, etc... Can you help with this question? Thanks, |
| Pour Drano on it? | Bianchi4Me
Oct 30, 2002 6:48 AM | | If it fizzes, smokes, and dissolves away into nothing, it's aluminum. If it just sits there and looks at you, it's Titanium. Of course, this method may cause some unwanted negative energy to be directed at you by the seller.
On skewers, I'm not aware of anyone offering an aluminum quick-release skewer rod. Hopefully someone will let us know if there is one. You should be able to tell if it's steel ot Ti by using a decent magnet. Note that some grades of stainless steel are basically non-magnetic. Usually you won't find these in something as lowly as a Q.R. rod, and the stainless steel doesn't look much like Ti.
Most hub shells and freehub bodies have a anodized coating on them that completely covers the material underneath, so I don't think you could tell with 100% certainty what is under that coating just by looking at it. Especially given the fact that manufacturers constantly dress up aluminum and steel parts in a "Ti" finish color. I think the only way to know for sure would be to do some homework on the model in question. If you know what it weighs in various versions, then you can sometimes use a scale to determine if a hub is using Ti parts. |
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