Which racing bike to choose from a Titanium VS Carbon frame?

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We respond to several readers who ask us for advice on which is better to buy between a titanium racing bike frame or a carbon racing bike frame.

In our view, the difference, before being technical and economic, is philosophical ...

What should I do with the racing bike?

What do I expect my racing bike to do?

What technical and performance characteristics should my racing bike have?

What is my budget and how long would I like my racing bike to last?

If you answer these questions honestly, the choice comes naturally.

Titanium has excellent technical characteristics, lasts forever, absorbs vibrations well, allows you to create a custom frame, but it costs a lot and isn't light.

With a titanium frame a timeless bike is created, to be updated with new groupsets or wheels, but the frame remains the same forever.

Not a light bike, not very high performance, but unique, comfortable.

It is no coincidence that titanium is chosen by amateurs who don't look at performance and at a certain point in their life want to give themselves a gift: a custom-made titanium frame ...

The carbon frame, on the other hand, allows for a light, high-performance racing bike.

For a given price, a racing bike with a carbon frame will always be faster than one with a titanium frame.

There is therefore no reason to say that Carbon is better than Titanium or vice versa.

It all depends on what we want from racing bikes and our economic possibilities.

Titanium has its advantages, but if we only look at the weight and performance in a racing bike, it is an outdated material ...

If, on the other hand, we look at something else, we realize that carbon only allows for the creation of "plastic blocks" of frames without any other characteristic other than a low weight ...

If you like one, you can't like the other.

However, the titanium frame selects the "lover" of the bike for amateur use, compared to those who want to recontest the "performance myth" that for an amateur always and only leaves the time that he finds ...