I currently use a bottle cage mounted on the top tube near the seat tube junction for long-distance riding. When ordering a titanium frame, is it feasible to have threaded bottle-cage mounts integrated in that position? Are there any structural considerations I should be aware of when adding bosses to the top tube close to the seat cluster? Thanks
We definitely apprecate how useful those bosses can be near the seat tube! We didn’t engineer those into our Ti frame, or test the frame with those additional mounting points, so we cannot endorse adding them to the frame or support any issues that arise from modified frames.
That said, we can give you a bit of technical information so that you understand our frame. The butting profile of the top tube is such that both ends have the same butting thickness at each end. On the 6 Ti the tube is merged with the 3d printed junction peice near the seat tube. If we were to design the frame with this new mount, we wouldn’t put it closer than 45mm from the seat tube outer wall / seat cluster.
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