Mountain bikes road bikes gravel road bikes and cyclocross bikes.
Titanium bike frame failure.
Most have very long or life time warranties that cover everything but crashes and deliberate damage to the frame.
Titanium frames are alas renowned for failure regardless of the price.
You may be lucky and go a lifetime without issue or like yourself and i have a frame failure.
Custom handcrafted bicycle frames and bicycles made one at a time from start to finish.
There are three types or cracks in titanium frames from best to worst.
So i would assume this frame was involved in a crash.
The down tube broke after 132 000 cycles.
Klein s quantum race failed more quickly.
If you look at titanium frame bikes on the web you can see their warranties.
Using the finest titanium and steel tubing from manufactures such as sandvik reynolds columbus dedacciai true temper and others.
The good thing with enigma is they offer a ten year warranty on all their frames.
Like any material carbon fiber has a fatigue rate just like steel or.
The second lightest frame in the test the low priced schmolke titanium frame made in russia exceeded all expectations at 160 000 cycles.