Blackheart Road Ti: Initial Ride Impressions 

I'm super thrilled you got your hands on this frame, as you're the steel king! Congrats kind sir.

Zone 2 @ 25-27 mph?!?! You’re a beast! Haha😂

Best road commentator on yt

Bought a Lynskey Helix in April. I have a smile on my face every time I ride it. It is a very smooth ride!

I own carbon, aluminum, steel and ti. They all have great features, but invariably I'm grabbing my ti off the rack for pure enjoyment.

Love to hear your breakdowns of the product. You have one of the better feels for these types of materials. But no lie the blackheart is amazing titanium bike that takes the classic idea of the bike. And modern look of a road bike today. Honestly very enjoyable ride and nice video!!😊

Been waiting for you to review titanium, my brother! I’ve just recently been scratching the itch to get my “lifetime” bike and I’ve been contemplating the Litespeed Spezia. Titanium is so forgiving and beautiful! As usual, great video!👍🏽

Amazing review not a stone left unturned i have never ridden a titanium frame but boy over rough roads that's a winner Luis like 85% of our roads thank you i loved the video keep safe Sir.

You're right m8, it's not beautiful. It's freaking Gorgeous! 😍

Man I’m so chuffed for you. The expression and passion is easy to see on your channel. I had a Ti mtb in my younger mounting biking days and loved it. Been on Aluminium and Carbon road bikes lately and now on a much better fitting bike. Look forward to the continued reviews and seeing power numbers too. Cheers

Thanks for the review! Looking forward to riding with you and your group someday. Be blessed!

neat looking frame! thank you for review and sharing!

That is cool you ride with the GC guy, I like his videos too. Another great topic, love to see these different frame material takes. Cheers, and ride safe.

Insane you release this video right after I researched this bike as part of my new bike purchase, ended up getting a ribble cgr ti

I had a Seven Cycles Axiom with traditional frame geometry. It was very responsive and predictable to rider input. Compared to my steel frame bike, road vibration was greatly reduced and the ride was very comfortable. However, I changed to Seven's hybrid titanium/carbon fiber frame. It absorbed even more of the harsh road vibration, yet has the same responsive and predicable ride as the all-titanium Axiom. Both bikes were purchased on the second-hand market at a fraction their new prices.

I appreciate your initial description of the frame's performance. When you return it to them, I hope they'll consider sending one of their _7005_ aluminum bikes to review. Thx

Another great film! - your descriptions on the miniature of characteristics are superb! I've always felt that (in general) steel provides a soft flex which dampens the road, aluminum has a spring - as in an energy return or ping when you put power into the frame, and titanium can do both. Carbon can do both too but it depends on the layup (i had a v3rs and that had a ping on initial power put down - now a have a c68, and this has a different ping - when you power 100w over your norm, it has a feeling like a sudden rush of energy being pushed into the rear triangle).

❤ nice review. I ride a Ti bike. Love it😊

Got myself the Ribble Endurance Ti. Disc earlier this year. Loving it.

Nice review, I am really enjoying my Blackheart Road Ti so far. I have a different perspective on the cornering, my old Scott Addict (not the Addict RC) corners like a pick up truck so the Blackheart is like a sports car to me.

Very nice Luis.. i watched GC review when he first got his.. I own a titanium framed bike and steel frame all have slightly different ride feel and qualities 😊 Pete 🚴🏻👍

Thanx for your Steel Frame Bike Videos. They are insightful. I've always looked at getting a Titanium Bike, but cannot afford my dream Van Nicholas Ti Bike. There is still quite a few Litespeed Ti Bikes available 2nd hand in my country, so will probably look at those. But ultimately my dream bike is a Van Nicholas.

Lively yet vibration immune, conservative-ish turning response ~ right up my alley. I've a Eisentraut rainbow custom steel that soaks up the bumps, yet predictible ~ might have to try Ti :) Excellent overview !¡ Many Thanks.

Love the bike

I'm glad to see this video and hear your assessment of this bike as I have one on order from Blackheart and expect it to be built this week. This will be my second titanium bike, the first being an Airborne Valkyrie with Campy Centaur components. I had bought that one in 2002. I sold that one after a couple of years, returned to steel frame, then in 2018 bought a carbon bike. It's okay as an endurance bike, but I've never felt inspired on it. I think this Blackheart Road Ti is going to tick a lot of boxes and inspire a lot of rides for me.

I ride a steel and carbon bike and Ti will find a place in my stable.

Awesome video! One suggestion is to swop out the wheels to the ones you used on the steel and carbon bikes. I believe the different wheels will have some effect even if you run same width tyres and pressure

Thanks for the review! Never ridden a Ti bike before, curious how would it feel. You looked very close to the handlebars at 4:31 with maybe a bit of toe overlap?

Beautiful bike!

Hola! I’ve watched several of your videos. New to your channel. Was looking for a video of were you might explain what got you into cycling, how long you’ve been doing it. What your spouse/family thinks of it. What you wished you knew then that you know now about the sport. Thank you for all videos and wealth of knowledge. Bendiciones a usted y a su Familia.

Such a clean looking frame. Loving the short seat stays, I imagine it really stiffens things up and helps with cornering. Not a fan of the massive head tube but understand the need for butting the larger diameter tubing and additional spacing to hide the cables. I wonder what costs more aerodynamically speaking, being able to hide the cables of the massive head tube? Reminds me of the Lynskey R500 a bit. Great review and looking forward to hearing more about the overall performance of the frame.

Great video man I thought about titanium just so expensive better make sure it’s the right choice right absolutely love the Bike for the amount of money you pay for it

It is the riders that makes the difference!! on the righteous bike.!!! As the world turns!!

I’m looking forward to along term review on this road t

That's a nice swimming pond out back of your house to cool you off after a ride.

Nice video! Ti attribute light weight!

Original owner of a Serotta Hors Catagorie, comfort defined; ride for hours over any conditions, I'll be fine; made to soak up rough roads & carve descents.

I put my carbon Pinarello Dogma F8 on the trainer and ride a ti Moots road bike with 33mm tires. Vamoots CRD is the most enjoyable, satisfying road bike I have ever owned or ridden.

What would make that bike even more amazing is if it was custom built fitting your body. I'm not talking just installing components that help it fit. I'm saying a bike frame the builder has made for you. I have a custom ti bike and I had a different ti bike, before this one, that was basically off the shelf standard offer from a brand. The custom frame acts like a stiff crit bike but as you said even after long rides I still feel fresh. Rough roads that are chip seal which we have a ton of here can tear you down but with the current bike with 26mm tires at 85psi I can ride for 6 hours if I wanted to, I just don't ever feel like, Man!, I need to stop and get off this bike for a while. Many of the other bikes I've owned had me praying after 50 miles. That said, not all ti bikes are the same. Some actually ride pretty bad. I owned a Merlin ti RSR frame about 20 years ago that was the worst bike I ever owned. You ever hear the term Death Wobble? That Merlin did it at high speed a couple of times so I sold it before I got killed on it, True story. I have videos of both ti bikes on my channel.

My Titanium Litespeed rides sweet. But also love my steel bike....

Looks well set up from the start. Would you want to make any changes or leave it as it sits?

Cant comment on Black Heart but I own a Moots Vamoots CRD and is the best bike I have ever ridden.

Now for a titanium frame with Campagnolo 12 mechanical, either rim brakes with clearance for 28.

Very interesting review and thanks for sharing, this is first time I heard of this brand. Rode a GT Edge titanium back in 2008 equipped with dura ace 7800 and zipp 808 wheels , the bike was responsive and predictable in handling but I found titanium a little bit too springy. Another time in 2010, I tried an Independant Fabrication Crown jewel made of Reynolds double butted titanium, like the GT the bike was responsive and predictable in handling but more stiff than the GT however I didn't find the sensations I have on my steel or aluminium frames. Does blackheart use Reynolds double butted titanium tubes??

May i say i ride a Condor Squadra alloy central triangle only forks carbon with the back triangle fully carbon also made in England.

The most impressive thing to me is to ride 65 miles over hot Florida pavement at high bicycle speeds and to feel relatively fresh afterward.

Is your position on this bike, relative to the center BB, the same as on your other bikes? Specifically, are you sitting more forward over the BB, because of the zero offset seatpost in addition to the STA at 74 deg?

I have a question for you if you do not mind to answer. I really like to know what bike geometry that provides comfort to ride. Both steel and Aluminum. I own a Trek Domane -year2023, I find it uncomfortable to pedal even though it is considered an endurance bike. I also have other touring bikes that are more comfortable to ride. I like to purchase another road bike in the future but i want to be sure before I spend the money. I am only interested in steel and Al frame. Thank in advance.

I love the bike. But the BlackHeart letter font isn’t my favorite.

What city does that giant group ride take place?

Hi! My other comment about titanium bikes (I’m like the main advocate for Ti on RU-vid) 😂seems to have gone missing? I was just saying if you want any help or advise let me know. 🙂👍🏻

Beautiful frame, just wish it was made in USA

A big downside of the large diameter seattube is the increased stiffness of the seatpost compared to a similar 27.2 mm one. A 31.6 mm seatpost is typically 82% stiffer than a 27.2 one, whereas a 34.8 mm one is 168% stiffer than the 27.2 one - for identical constructions and wall thicknesses, of course. Therefore, to achieve a similar degree of flex and comfort, one would have to engineer the larger diameter seatpost with much thinner walls, which is often not the case. Besides the maths, I own a Ti frame with a 31.6 mm seatpost, and I had to dig around a bit to find a carbon seatpost that is as comfortable as the previous 27.2 mm one I used to ride. Using a shim is always an option to that end, allowing you to use a 27.2 mm seatpost, although it is a bit of a bodge, adds quite a bit of weight and ruins the overall aesthetics of the bike a little - not to mention you need to be careful with aluminium and carbon interfaces as they chemically bond if anti-seize compound is not used.

I would absolutely not consider this bike just from the seatpost size alone. My Supersix Evo corners like a F1 car. What does it weigh? What is it like up a 15 mile 9% grade climb

Hey. I like steel but I find it is up there in price as Ti so I'd get To because it is lighter.

I hope you come out of this rut soon- thinking steel bikes are better than carbon. If that was the case, I'm sure the pros would be all over it. The regular Joes wants what the pros are using.

Robust Compliance... Soundslike a great setup..

I own no "true" road bikes and zero CF framed bikes. I ride my CX and gravel bikes (Ti, steel, alu) on paved surface rides. I knew it was just a matter of time before a nice Ti bike made it into your stable to ride and review. Lol. Great looking bike and dope initial review as well. Looking fwd to you long term impression!

You know I've never even really considered a titanium bike. I've always considered it to be out of my price range, or too pricey for what I would get. Does that bike have a carbon fork? like a lot of aluminum bikes you want to get a carbon Fork to dampen the vibration. What about steel bikes, I've never considered Steel bikes, do you normally get those with a carbon Fork as well?

Oh yea I totally understand about the out of place look smaller diameter tubes cause with bigger head tubes. That actually looks really good! The ever so slightly slower cornering I personally prefer cuz I don’t like that “wobble” effect extremely aggressive bikes have! I feel ya with the rain, it’s been bike rollers almost every day for me here too!

I have an aluminum frame.

Nice b😊ike

How much is this bike? 💰

Are the numbers of people on the Black heart because they are being sponsored to ride it or did they all buy it? Because that’s an impressive win for titanium if that’s all new titanium customers! 😳

To me, steel has that springiness that returns the energy back more than titanium. Both are comfortable, but steel reacts better

Buy hand made USA

As the old saying goes, steel is real.

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They are inexpensive because the frames are made in China

Thanks & good job. I think titanium is an over hyped and over priced gimmick. It's probably a good choice if you want to signal social status (narcissist?). Therapy might be cheaper. 🤔🤨😉

This is the video i was waiting for. So happy to see that you got your hands on a high quality titanium setup. Excited to hear even more of your thoughts after more miles. 🫶

Yall gotta give us access to vibranium. Thats even better than titanium ✊🏿