titanium plate and wheelchair in the field

Titanium frames for bicycles and wheelchairs are formed in the mid-1980s , the application of the fast development of titanium , but just when the market began to heat these small , slow down the application process in the world of titanium .

A bicycle frame

In recent years due to defense cuts and uncertainty from floating aircraft industry , the U.S. production of V pipe three companies turned to the bicycle industry , but the world has been produced by a bicycle frame nor 3AI-2.5V to three Boeing 747 aircraft titanium (130t). Currently there are nearly 50 companies producing titanium bicycle , 90 percent of the world's all-titanium frame from several original equipment manufacturers (OE), 10% of the remaining half is produced by the United States itself , the United States has always already is the largest titanium bicycle producer and consumer countries .

This year is likely to be the highest annual sales of titanium frame , probably will produce 17,000 titanium frame , with a total weight of about 27 \ Materials Price $ 5,000,000 , including full titanium tubing, rods and plates .

When the benefits of a growing number of cyclists begin to understand titanium , but feel strapped , with air quality pipe production of Ti-3Al-2.5V frame , each pair of prices between 1600 and $ 3500 the whole bike selling price from $ 2400 to $ 6000 . In the past four years, commercially pure titanium tubes and non- aviation penalty -3AI-2. SV ( Sports Grade ) titanium frame made ​​popular , some sports grade titanium frame lowest retail price $ 1,000 per pair , the whole bike lowest price $ 1,700 . 1985 purchasing power with titanium frame is zero in 1990 to approximately $ 1.5 million by the end of 1995 , the purchasing power of approximately $ 5,000,000 .

2 Bicycle Parts

The bicycle component is the crankshaft connected to the positioning frame , pedal , steering wheel , etc., than the titanium member industry penalty -3 Si 1-2.5V faster frame industry , most of the parts with Ti-6AI- 4V production , mostly bar or plate processing machine parts out . Member with the Ti-6A1-4V Ti-3 bleed strength of only one frame of a 2.5V / 3 , 1997 to approximately 10t. SB cast components can increasingly common development in this respect may be greater than the slow development of machining parts , titanium supplier of titanium parts manufacturers began to offer cheaper materials , most of these low-cost bicycles grade material is actually being elimination of aeronautical materials .

3 wheelchair frame and components

Unlike in many market areas wheelchair bicycle market , the most important difference is that only a small amount of production of titanium wheelchair frame , with most of the slit pipe production of commercially pure titanium , titanium wheelchair total strength of approximately 15t.

Currently only a few companies in the United States has sufficient research and development funds to develop titanium wheelchair or purchase materials. Compared to cheaper aluminum wheelchair, wheelchair few advantages of titanium , titanium screw bolts now in addition ,titanium rod the titanium wheelchair parts industry has not yet formed , although there is a market , but very small, included only a small number of consumable parts , size of the market has not to $ 1,000,000 .

4 Material Requirements

Compact , stiffness , light weight bicycle and wheelchair drive specification for general requirements , titanium is often not the best material, and wrought aluminum and aluminum more popular , if titanium metal matrix composites (MMCs) , then the price down , may become a substitute for some of the aluminum market applications .

Bicycle rack

Material requirements of the frame is very simple, but it is particularly critical driving characteristics , so that the choice of materials in some ways more complex, most of the means of transport, structural elements and internal facilities and operating elements are separated, until recently , all the requirements of the bicycle frame suspension having structural integrity and function .titanium stockists Titanium is not yet a bicycle designed specifically for only some of the material is improved for a bicycle , most people consider to reduce the cost, but the main problem facing the receiving member is a rigid titanium rather than cost .