Step-through or mixte with triple?

[warneral]

your Mixte is sooooo gorgeous. What is the weight like? I realize it's heavier than a road bike, but just wondering how much heavier

[Owlie]

I've taken a shine to the Linus, though I'd want to repaint it green or red. Luckily, I'd have to drive to Columbus to get one, so it's not likely to happen.

[sarahspins]

Ahh.. well given that you want triple chainrings, if the geometry is likely to work for you, I'd recommend having a Soma frame built up. Depending on how it's done it can be reasonable in price or pretty spendy - but you'd get to pick absolutely everything you want on it

Velo-orange also sells a mixte frame, with slightly different geometry (and only in blue). http://store.velo-orange.com/index.p.../mixte-72.html

You could also potentially buy a vintage mixte, strip it down (you could even have it painted at that point - I did that with my kid's 24" mixte), have the frame respaced and then build it back up however you would like - I actually did this on my Takara, the only thing on my "wish list" is to replace the original center-pull brakes, but I just haven't gotten around to it. The only original components on the bike are the brakes, front wheel, crankset, and front derailleur. I have an 8 speed nexus hub in the back (I had an entire new wheel built for the bike) and I didn't need to respace my frame to make it fit, but it is a tight fit... it's a very fun bike now.. I love how SILENT the internal gears are.

[missjulied]

@KnottedYet: Great suggestion (Free Range), and I will do so!

@jdubble: Wow, those sweatpea bikes are great, but way out of my price range at this time. Awesome for browsing and dreaming though.

@saraspins: I like the idea of finding a vintage frame and building it up.

Thanks everyone for your feedback!

[jdubble]

your Mixte is sooooo gorgeous. What is the weight like? I realize it's heavier than a road bike, but just wondering how much heavier

i honestly don't know. it's got permanent fenders and a front rack, and usually has a Bobike Maxi kid seat on it...i have no idea what it weighs stripped down. a friend just bought a bike scale, i'll have to take it over and see sometime. it feels pretty darn light really when i do have all the gear off of it. but my road bike is steel too, so i'm not one who knows from light bikes.