Show us your mixte!

**Julie V** · 10-11-2007, 07:24 PM

Knot, do you check Craig's List and Ebay for mixtes as soon as you get up in the morning? I do, it's sick but it's sort of like a treasure hunt except that I have 3 so I need to stop there. (I'm trying to put up a Bianchi SS in the For Sale Forum now.)

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 10-11-2007, 07:27 PM

I have just one bike, first one since I was a kid 40 years ago....and I won't get my second bike for another 5 or 6 months.

I am the queen of restraint....but only with bikes. I make up for it with biking clothes.

(Though much of my biking clothes are worn every day too, like the wool stuff, base layers, vests, and tights)

You guys are totally out of control! =8-O

**KnottedYet** · 10-11-2007, 07:41 PM

I have two bikes.

SKnot has one, but it was mine for a week.

I am a serial monogamist when it comes to bikes, except now I am a bigamist.

Gotta stop at bigamy, cuz polygamy could just cause problems... (but I want a recumbent again, and a tandem, and a mixte, and an Xtracycle)

**East Hill** · 10-12-2007, 01:09 AM

Originally Posted by Julie V

You're right East Hill, how's this?

Much better! Really shows off the beauty of the lines, too

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East Hill

**sandra** · 10-12-2007, 04:38 AM

Here is a good nice clean single tube mixte for someone that needs a smaller frame, 49 cm. Somebody grab it!

**Tri Girl** · 10-12-2007, 05:56 PM

I'm watching that 49... it's just my size (well, I ride a 48, but it would probably work).
Now I'm just wondering how I'll explain to my future divorce lawyer how ANOTHER bike was worth it.

**sandra** · 10-12-2007, 05:59 PM

Yes, it will probably work. I ride a 52 and my mixte is a 53. I hope you get it. It looks like it is in great shape.

**Trek420** · 10-18-2007, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by sandra

Yes, it will probably work. I ride a 52 and my mixte is a 53. I hope you get it. It looks like it is in great shape.

I don't know if mixtes are more flexible, I'm 5'1" and my mixte fits just fine, Knotr's 5'8" and here she is on the same bike with the seatpost out a bit of course.

**KnottedYet** · 10-18-2007, 08:19 PM

That's one fuuuuuun bike to ride!

Really got a kick out of just cruisin' the single-speed.

(I especially liked the part where I passed a Biker Dude going uphill.)

**Trek420** · 10-18-2007, 08:39 PM

I liked that too

**KnottedYet** · 10-19-2007, 05:33 AM

I want a mixte, I want to make it a single-speed like Trek's.

I could rationalize this by saying I was getting it so Trek and others could borrow it when they're in Seattle.

Or I could say I was gonna do this instead of getting a tattoo.

anyway, I'll let the fates decide.

If anyone runs across a good mixte frame in good condition, size 52cm or less (30-ish inches virtual standover or less) in the Seattle area, please give me a holler. Especially if it's less than $100.

I wanna try the conversion myself, so probably not a French frame with the odd bottom-bracket requirements... (we'll see how long this idea lasts!)

**sandra** · 10-19-2007, 04:12 PM

If you could use a 48 grab this!

**Tri Girl** · 10-19-2007, 05:46 PM

Here's another 48cm frame:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Ross-Fra...QQcmdZViewItem

Just PLEASE- nobody out-bid me on the bike I'm bidding on. I'm sooooo trying to win it.

I don't want to show you the bike or you might have to have it (it's a beauty- er... I mean- it's ugly and you don't want it).

**sandra** · 10-19-2007, 05:55 PM

yeah. I hate it. You don't want to bid on that bike.

**DebW** · 10-19-2007, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by sandra

If you could use a 48 grab this!

Note that the left bottom bracket up on this one needs a lock ring.

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