Show us your mixte!

[oxysback]

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

[badgercat]

uforgot, I haven't even been around here for that long and I saw your post and was instantly like "she found ANOTHER amazing deal?!?!"

What's your secret? Care to share it with any of us who have thousands of dollars of student loan debt? Wait, does your bargain-radar work on finding... apartments? Or insurance plans? Maybe I should concentrate on that sort of thing instead.

anyway. To keep this more topical, I also think the brown saddle looks lovely.

[uforgot]

It's probably location. There aren't a lot of people cycling around here, and no one, even my lbs is interested in classic bikes. They are dusty when I find them and the only name that means anything around here is "Schwinn". Oh, wait, and Trek. When I had my Trek Navigator several years ago I got all kinds of comments on my "fancy" bike. Now I have a Surly Cross Check and the name means nothing.lol 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!

[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 ).]

[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.