Originally Posted by
Jrasero
Yeah I actually have seen some cool paint jobs on Ti, just not having paint is pretty awesome since you never have to worry about chips/fading and buffing out small scratches seems super easy
On the rivenuts, if they continue to be a problem, you can have braze-ons added by a titanium builder. Dean added 8 water bottle/rack mounts to the bike below for $280. They added two bottle mounts below the downtube for the splash guard, 4 rack mounts and 2 mounts for my winter fender system. It took about a month.
In addition to not having to worry about chipping the paint, the gray color of the titanium makes for a nice background for components with color, like this
DSCN0934 by
Stuart Black, on Flickr
Untitled by
Stuart Black, on Flickr