Old-Schoolers: Pour one out for (probably) one of the last of the Syncros Pro Ti

Anybody know what the last year of production for Syncros Pro Ti posts was? Wondering how many years mine had before it reached its fatigue limit. I know I rode it for 11 years with 3 different frames.

I got lucky though--it failed 2/3 of the way through an easy 15km "recovery ride" on Monday night. If it had failed a day earlier, I could have been utterly miserable low-posting a portion of a 67km ride.

I wish I had a more spectacular reason for the failure--I came off a log-over on flat trail awkwardly and sat down on it a little too hard. I guess a log-over is an appropriately 90s finishing move though.

Time to move on to a dropper, but I'm going to miss the little bit of give of the 27.2 Ti...

Beautiful.

That looks like an aluminum one to me, I remember the Ti ones being silver.

Posted by: tashi

That looks like an aluminum one to me, I remember the Ti ones being silver.

The aluminum ones were black. I broke two and got a titanium one which was bare titanium. The photo looks a little black but it’s actually titanium on my screen. And at the failure the tube is too thin for aluminum. Syncros might have made clear anodized aluminum too. I don’t remember seeing any though.

Hey, you’re right!  I thought that was black.

It is grey, it's just reflecting the darkness of the world that surrounds it...

Nice, I like it. 

“I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black...”

Is this the start of a new poetry thread to replace to old Vassago one?

When it comes to poetry, I can only quote, I’m not going to I embarrass myself by attempting to create. 

Although I probably dated myself with that particular quote...

I shoulda known better, all the broken aluminum ones I saw were from the shaft splitting at the head.