The Trifecta - Today It's a Mixte!

[IvonaDestroi]

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Ummm I may be mistaken but I don't think that's a mixte? I think that's just a 'women's' bike.

I thought a mixte was when the top tube goes all the way from the head to the rear drops...

I've always been confused about the difference between step-through and mixte, obviously dual top tubes are a mixte frame, but apparently there is another kind of mixte too, One like this except it has an extra set of seat stays in the back.

I believe this one in particular is just a regular step-through or ladies' frame. ,

although, my idea of step-through is the 70's old school style where you can actually step through it! I wish they still made the super low curvy step through frames, nowadays they're always some highly placed cheesy imitation. Structurally unsound my butt!

[ZenSojourner]

although, my idea of step-through is the 70's old school style where you can actually step through it! I wish they still made the super low curvy step through frames, nowadays they're always some highly placed cheesy imitation. Structurally unsound my butt!

70's? Maybe. But my Huffy curvy step-through was made in the 50's.

Like that, only blue and white. With a white basket and white handle bar grips. The huffy logo was painted on the thing they chromed in the picture above, which also housed a horn.

It was left to rust by the original owner (my older sister) after my older brother waylaid her one day by throwing a broom handle through the spokes, and yes, that was every bit as disastrous as it sounds.

I got a book from the library about bike repair and fixed it up, including replacing bent and broken spokes and re-truing the wheels, something I cannot do to my own bike now.

I cleaned the rust out of the innards where the horn mechanism lay and got the horn working again.

Replaced handlebar grips, sanded and undercoated and painted

Then when I had it fixed up, I was told I wasn't allowed to ride it.

Which I blithely ignored.

No matter what I did, the chain would leap out and grab my pants legs. Hmmm, an early version of the vampire clipless pedals perhaps?

At any rate, I wish I still had that bike. Apparently after I was kicked out, my younger sister wrecked it and it was eventually thrown away. Which is a great shame since it's apparently worth about 3k now. . .

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I've always been confused about the difference between step-through and mixte, obviously dual top tubes are a mixte frame, but apparently there is another kind of mixte too, One like this except it has an extra set of seat stays in the back.

I believe this one in particular is just a regular step-through or ladies' frame. ,

although, my idea of step-through is the 70's old school style where you can actually step through it! I wish they still made the super low curvy step through frames, nowadays they're always some highly placed cheesy imitation. Structurally unsound my butt!

The third set of seat stays is what makes it a mixte. There are some that have a single tube and then they divide at the seat tube. I see them rarely, but they are out there. You're right. This one is not a mixte, but a cool find!

[Aggie_Ama]

We don't have spring cleaning but someone did leave a washer that my neighbors now have in thir driveway. I am sure the HOA will be sending a letter soon.

[mtbdarby]

Thanks guys. I've often wondered what the true definition of a mixte was. My preferenc would also be on a curved tube but I haven't found one yet