[CR]OMAS titanium bb--does it last?

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

From: "Charles Andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 07:51:15 -0700
Subject: [CR]OMAS titanium bb--does it last?

Still working on my weight-weenie project for Cirque.. and I'm wondering about this OMAS titanium bb I want to use. Did the axle in it break like the first-gen Campagnolo Super Record titanium axle? It looks like it would have the same problem, but if this is a different alloy, maybe not.

This does bring up a couple of other questions that I'm sure have been answered here before, but maybe not in full detail (I did a little archive search and didn't quite find what I was looking for).. How often did the first-gen Super Record titanium bb axle break, and under what circumstances? Could it be used more judiciously, or would it fail after a certain amount of use no matter what kind of use?

And I've always wondered about the campagnolo titanium-spindle Super Record pedals. Did those really break routinely, or could they, too, be used judiciously (that is, not constantly hammering on them in sprints in high gears) without breaking?

Thanks for any insights on this.

Charles "likes those titanium SR pedals a lot" Andrews (and I wish I could use this first-gen Super Record bb I have. Anyone have a 70mm italian second-gen titanium SR bb axle they'd like to sell me??) Los Angeles