speaking of mixtes

[KnottedYet]

I got a lot of smirks from people riding their fancy road bikes, but one woman carrying a big load on her back was jealous and said she needed a bike like mine.

Love your bike!
I have a lot more respect for a working bike than for a poseur smirking roadie bike. You rock!

[xeney]

Jeremy and I have been discussing that Austro-Daimler since the price dropped. The seller did not offer me free shipping but did offer me the original leather saddle. (It's white -- can you ride that after Labor Day?) I have two fabulous mixte single speeds and I don't need another, but there has been talk of putting gears onto my Puch ... the guy at the LBS suggested a Nexus hub. I am going to need to be able to haul a baby trailer and I am not sure I can do that with a single speed, and frankly my geared bikes are not as well suited to errand-running as my mixtes are. (That would be my mountain bike and my road bike; the former is heavy and I don't want to put a rack and fenders on either of them.)

Doing the shifter hub upgrade to the Puch is going to cost about $350-$400. This entire bike is cheaper than that, even with shipping. But maybe I really don't want 25-year-old shifting.

Someone talk me out of this. I can't ride the bikes I already have right now; I'm just concerned that I still won't be able to ride much even after she is old enough for the trailer.

[elk]

xeney...

is there a bike in your stable you could sell? i want someone to get this bike!!
I saw one on the street the other day...top tube/ cream colored....the graphics alone are gorgeous!!!

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[xeney]

Yeah, I could sell my 80s Allez. It is nowhere near as cute and it's too small for me.

[sandra]

Yeah, I could sell my 80s Allez. It is nowhere near as cute and it's too small for me.

Hurry up and buy it already so I'll quit being tempted by it! No, I'm not going to buy it. I'm quickly getting in the "too many bikes category" as it is. I hate that he changed out the shifters to index shifters.

[xeney]

See, that is one of the reasons I want it ... I prefer index shifting but I don't want to be the person who screws up a bike in that condition. If it's already done I feel no guilt.

(I have no similar qualms about taking apart a well-ridden twelve-speed and making it a single-speed, it's just that this one is so untouched.)

[KnottedYet]

SOMEBODY, please buy that bike before it breaks my heart! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=280169876470

And if you buy it and it doesn't fit you, in all likelihood I will buy it from you!

EDIT: I'm serious. PM me if you want.