|   titanium versus cro-moly axle for touring? | Mirko
Jun 12, 2002 4:00 PM | | Hi there,
I am building a bulletproof wheelset for touring (it's a mtb but mainly for road touring or light off roads)
I have an XTR Ti axle sitting around and I also have a cro moly one. Which axle will be stroger and what one will give me trouble free touring with about 20kg of weight? Please help me decide
- possibly about 12kg on the back wheel (it's a rear axle I am talking about) I am about 75kg and my bike is heavy and I have bought new wheels with shimano tandem hubs and 40 hole sun rhyno lite rims, alpine spokes.
Also what do you think about the wheels - are they going to handle the abuse. is it a good choice - are alpine spokes going to be stroger than dt competition.
Thanks - mirko |
| re: titanium versus cro-moly axle for touring? | GMF
Jun 13, 2002 12:47 PM | | First of all, go with the cro-mo axle. Since they have the same geometry, material properties are the only thing you can really look at. The steel axle will be approximately twice as strong as the titanium one (depending on alloys, etc.).
Your wheels also sound plenty strong. I have completed a 2.5-month tour on rough roads (several days were on wash-board gravel roads... not fun), on a set of 32 spoke wheels with lightweight rims. If your wheel build is good, you'll be fine.
-gmf |
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