Category: Titanium

  • Abbey Bike Tools Team Issue Titanium Hammer

    Here at Gearflogger we have a complicated relationship with titanium. Aluminum is actually lighter but you have to use more of it to get the same strength, so Ti gear is usually lighter in the end. We love Ti for its unparalleled strength-to-weight, low weight-to-mass, flexibility and corrosion resistance. And don't forget: eye-popping cost, as…

  • REI Ti Ware spork

    Behold, I give you a dork spork! REI advertises its Ti Ware Spork as being half the weight of stainless steel. Sounds great until you wake up from your titanium-induced gear coma to realize it weighs in at all of .62oz. So you’re sporking over $8 to save a little more than half an ounce…