Show us your mixte!

[uforgot]

Oh, that's nice, Claudia! I have some spare downtube cable stops if you're going to move your shifters. That Brooks looks great!

Thanks Ellen, that's very nice of you. I'm going to keep the shifters there. They work great, so I'm not messin' with them. I will, however, take the pug.

[xeney]

Oh, how pretty. I tried to buy a very similar Motobecane with that kind of top tube for my first mixte, but I got outbid. My husband still wishes I'd gotten that one because he really liked the look.

Now that I am "commuting" again (working at coffee houses 2-3 days a week while my husband watches the kid) my mixtes are actually being ridden. My Puch is so much fun to ride. (I need to get a newer photo, now that it has a different saddle, bar tape, and the brakes moved to the ends of the bars. Uforgot, that is your saddle in the photo.)

[Biciclista]

Hey, I had a Puch once! we called it a PUKE. it was a 3 speed but only 2 of them worked. It was too big for me though, I couldn't straddle the top tube.

YOURS is cute though.

[badgercat]

I have, however, found more deals and fixed them up and given them to a few of my students. One is now at Brigham Young university, another (a $5 Schwinn) turned one of my senior students into an avid cyclist (he just took the parts, the bike and a book and restored it himself!) and I hope to finish another today which will go to a former student at UMR. I enjoy it and I tell them that they have to give the bike away to someone who will use it when they are finished. Hopefully cycling will become more popular around here in my corner of Missouri.

I definitely don't make money on my "deals", the bikes are all well used and loved. Maybe that's part of it? Although that Motobecane is MINE!

I think the "used and loved" aspect is the best part! That's so awesome that you've given bikes to students and spread the joy of cycling. You're like your own personal Red Bikes Project!

I should point out that before TE, I had never heard of or noticed a mixte before... now, whenever I see one, I exclaim "mixte!" Well, I don't usually do it out loud, but I do if I happen to be with my boyfriend who appreciates my quirks.

[Sorry, one more OT question... UMR=Rolla? My boyfriend went there for an engineer-y conference once, and was considering applying there for grad school, so we drove around town once so he could show it to me. We happened to be passing through on a Winter Break road trip to Arizona (where we're both in grad school now ).]

[jdubble]

You know, in studying (read: drooling over) that Vanilla Mixte...it really isn't a mixte, either. It does have the sloping twin top tubes, but there's no seat stay that goes from the area where the seat tube goes into the frame.

I still think it's cool, though. Looks kind of like a thug bike!

i know the vanilla discussion was awhile ago, but i feel compelled to point out that this bike was built by sacha for his 8 year old daughter, which is why the geometry on it looks a bit different. lucky girl, no?

i'm glad i found this forum and this thread in particular. i'm in the process of having a Sweetpea mixte made and it's giving me lots of ideas

[malkin]

That's a sweeeet Moto!

[sgtiger]

i know the vanilla discussion was awhile ago, but i feel compelled to point out that this bike was built by sacha for his 8 year old daughter, which is why the geometry on it looks a bit different. lucky girl, no?

i'm glad i found this forum and this thread in particular. i'm in the process of having a Sweetpea mixte made and it's giving me lots of ideas

Welcome, jdubble! Yes, that is a very lucky girl. So is his wife - I believe the blue step-through commuter bike on his site is his wife's. Congrats on your Sweetpea too. We want pics when it's ready, pretty please.

[sgtiger]

Uforget, nice score! I'm a little envious but mostly happy for you too.

[jdubble]

Welcome, jdubble! Yes, that is a very lucky girl. So is his wife - I believe the blue step-through commuter bike on his site is his wife's. Congrats on your Sweetpea too. We want pics when it's ready, pretty please.

Thanks for the welcome!

And yup, the blue step-thru is his wife's, though I see him on it as often as not. It's a beautiful bike.

And definitely I will post pics of the Sweetpea, one of these days. I put in my deposit at the Oregon Handmade Bike show last November, and have been patiently waiting (and breaking in a Brooks B-68s for it) ever since. But Natalie said we're getting close to fabrication, so hopefully by spring, I'll be tooling around town on my new ride. I've been seeing more and more mixtes around lately and it's driving me crazy with jealousy. But delayed gratification will only make me love mine that much more, right?

jj

[xeney]

I think this fits our "is it a mixte? or is it not?" discussion, but I am currently trying to buy a mixte-style Schwinn Pixie. I've seen a couple of these in person and they are adorable, but I didn't buy because I didn't have a kid yet. We want one for Penny, but I am trying to buy one now because my niece is coming to visit and would like to ride while she's here.

I'm trying to figure out what on earth they've done to the seat post there, though.

[oxysback]

i know the vanilla discussion was awhile ago, but i feel compelled to point out that this bike was built by sacha for his 8 year old daughter, which is why the geometry on it looks a bit different. lucky girl, no?

i'm glad i found this forum and this thread in particular. i'm in the process of having a Sweetpea mixte made and it's giving me lots of ideas

Lucky daughter...it's a beautiful bike!

And lucky you for getting a Sweetpea! We'll be awaiting pictures when she's done!

[uforgot]

I'm trying to figure out what on earth they've done to the seat post there, though.

I looks like it's jammed on the springs of the saddle. Weird. You could always ask, but if they took a pic like that, chances are good that they don't even know the term "seatpost".

[xeney]

My husband thought they'd just tried to make it fit a kid it was too small for, and he thought the seat post might be installed backwards. (I've seen that on eBay and Craigslist fairly often!)

I won the auction so we'll figure it out when it gets here. Only two stays so maybe not a mixte, but it sure is cute. (But of course, by the time my daughter is old enough to ride it, she'll refuse to ride anything that is not pink.)

[ms pepperpot]

I don't need another bike and don't have space for one but this thread has made me want a mixte. i've just seen this for sale and am very tempted, waiting to find out how big it is though. It's a Raleigh

[Zen]

I think it was Extra-vert who wanted one of these?