First Look: Titus Vuelo  An exotic blend of Titanium and carbon
by Tony Farrelly   October 17, 2008    Titus Vuelo on green
Yesterday we highlighted a British titanium bike manufacturer,
qoroz, today it's the turn of Titus from the good old US of A.
New manufacturing technologies such as hydro-forming and new
methods of folding the highest grades of titanium sheeting seem
to be giving what was alway a desirable bike building material a
new lease of life when it comes to building top end performance
machines just when it looked to have been eclipsed by carbon
fibre.  Most of the titanium bikes we saw at Cycle 08 were pure
titanium but there manufactrers who are seeking to blend Ti and
carbon, Litespeed and Independent Fabrications both have carbon
tubed Ti lugged machines. The idea is give is to show that when
it comes to top end materials you can have your cake and eat it
too.   Probably the most eye-catching example of a bike mixing
titanium and carbon fibre is the Titus Vuelo, a bike that
combines 3AL/2.