MadRhino said:
It's strength may not be compromised, but it can sure as hell distort.
With 13kJ/g of energy given off -- ignoring the heat input to ignite it -- unless you used an oven a raised the whole thing to the burn-off temperature of whatever is used, and the allowed it to cool very slow, the frame would distort badly. And given that once combustion starts, the localised heat will climb far more quickly than the oven it will probably distort anyway unless an oven proof jig is used.
It is a simple weld fix. You dont even have to paint it. Silly, really. Any distortion can be taken care of easily by a good mechanic. It does point to a weakness in using straight gauge-diameter tubes in a progressively higher stress area of a structure. The chain stays need to be much stiffer and stronger at the bb shell area. One of the areas that few titanium frames address properly IMO.
