https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8eg4O3OrvM

This tell you pretty much the engineering problems

On Monday, September 27, 2021 at 12:46:15 PM UTC-7, Tom Kunich wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8eg4O3OrvM
>
> This tell you pretty much the engineering problems
As I said before, my 2018 Trek Emonda with carbon wheels and Di2 group was 18.5 lbs. Now, since Trek has a lifetime warranty they DO make them slightly heavier than they could with their high compression manufacturing method. But not a lot.

My Douglas titanium, I have an 18 lb bike that is all hell and gone stronger than the Trek. Sure, you PROBABLY don't need that sort of strength but the point is that when you make a bike that is glued together, it doesn't much matter what material it is made of since the actual weight is the resin. And the actual strength of the resin is a fraction of the reinforcing materials.

I can be reasonably sure that I will not have a titanium or steel frame failure. And I don't have to worry about carbon fiber forks because the direction of forces is only in one direction so it is easy to make a carbon fiber fork that will last a very long time. And since forks are much smaller than framesets, you can make them much heavier, relatively, without people complaining.