{"id":2264,"date":"2013-03-28T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:16:31","slug":"titaniumcarbon-mixes-the-best-of-both-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/titaniumcarbon-mixes-the-best-of-both-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanium\/Carbon Mixes &#8211; The Best of Both Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/622-lugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2275 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/622-lugs.jpg\" alt=\"laser cut titanium lugs for a 622\" width=\"600\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/622-lugs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/622-lugs-400x344.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/622-lugs-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you were to take a carbon fiber tube and wrap it against the wall, then hold your ear to it, there would be little if any sound emanating from the tube.\u00a0 If you did the same test with metal, it would sing like a tuning fork.\u00a0 The same holds true for frames, metal sings and carbon whispers.\u00a0 These two qualities make for very different experiences on the road.\u00a0 Carbon bikes, like our Diamas line, make pitted and potholed roads feel like you are pedaling over wall to wall carpeting; smooth, with very little feedback.\u00a0 Metal bikes, like the Axiom, Resolute, <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/sola-sl.php\">Sola<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/mudhoney-sl.php\">Mudhoney<\/a>, on the other hand, provide constant feedback keeping you in tune with the surface of the road.\u00a0 Once we start customizing and manipulating tube sets, we can alter how compliant or how stout the frames will be, but the material dictates <i>how<\/i> the road&#8217;s vibrations will be relayed to the rider.<\/p>\n<p>There is a gap between whispering and singing, and to some, that&#8217;s where the perfect bike resides.\u00a0 By adding carbon tubes to a titanium frame, or vice versa, we can fabricate a bike that <i>hums<\/i>, bridging the gap between the two materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tubing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2276 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tubing-996x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Various carbon and titanium tubes at a desk\" width=\"840\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tubing-996x1024.jpg 996w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tubing-400x411.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tubing-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea of a titanium frame paired with carbon seat stays for the intended purpose of soaking up road vibrations was a notion that Seven pioneered and first implemented with the Odonata back in 1997, and though there have been some updates and improvements the same basic model exists today, now known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/bikes\/622-s.php\">Elium SL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ride of a ti\/carbon bike is so pleasant, that we offer them in road, cross, and mountain bike disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to take a carbon fiber tube and wrap it against the wall, then hold your ear to it, there would be little if any sound emanating from the tube.\u00a0 If you did the same test with metal, it would sing like a tuning fork.\u00a0 The same holds true for frames, metal sings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/titaniumcarbon-mixes-the-best-of-both-worlds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Titanium\/Carbon Mixes &#8211; The Best of Both Worlds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[170,44,162,163,18,172,171,173,121],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-axiom","tag-bike-build","tag-carbon-fiber","tag-diamas","tag-featured-product","tag-metal","tag-resolute","tag-ticarbon","tag-titanium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17968,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/17968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}