Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
There have been TI rims before. I rode the Araya Titan Ace for a couple of years about 40 years ago. One of the nicest rolling rims I ever used but just don't try to stop in the rain! Worse then chromed steel. Andy
I might be wrong, but I remember those rims as having been conventional aluminum with titanium-colored hard anodizing, just as various manufacturers did gray-anodized and (e.g., Mavic) dark-blue-anodized rims. All of the hard-anodized rims were terrible for braking in the rain.
Here's Jobst Brandt's take on
Anodized vs. Non-anodized Rims. (No mention of titanium rims.)