Ti Nuts

$370 per set ?? For 20 Titanium nuts ??

Gonna speak to my friend who works with Ti all day long, see if he can find some / make them !!

 

Sounds a decent price, titanium isn't cheap and there will be a fair bit of it in 20 nuts.

 

Just think what the weight saving will do for the 0-60 time.

You will, of course, need to buy a very expensive timepiece to measure the effect.

 

Will that be titanium too?

 

You could also burn the tips and make them blue

 

bling is always expensive!

i wonder what the total saving would be if you replaced every single nut and bolt with titanium. probably around 20kg!

 

More realistic price is $370 a month as some tosser nicks them.

 

too right!

Actually, my watch strap is Ti. Mirror polished, it scratches like buggery. The metal is very soft. I wonder if it's really suitable for wheel nuts?

 

Sounds like dodgy Ti to me, currently have a Ti watch, chain, neck chain, bike frame etc etc etc and all are still shiny with no scratches.

I remember the mountain bike days, and R/C car days when a few grammes meant a lot of weight saving, but then we found a supplier of Ti parts to the trade at 10% the cost of them to specialist groups !!

Ti is not that difficult to work, or extract (source, a guy who works with it everyday) and is not rare (most common metal on earth I heard) so why rip people off for parts made from it ??

 

Titanium the is one of the hardest metals know to man,one of its uses is to ignite petrol in most perform combustion engines where normal plug tips melt!!!!

Your watch strap must be made with that special Titanium called Aluminum

The bloke who sold you that watch saw you coming??