Show us your mixte!

[Rebecca19804]

Hi Dar

I'm sure TE'ers with personal experience will pitch in here... I've not done this yet on my mixte but I just did it with my Surly Cross Check. Since a triple crankset is wider than a double, you'll also need to replace the bottom bracket (for a longer one) and the front derailleur (for a longer one). Does your bike shop have the right ones to fit your mixte's frame, or can they get them?

Best of luck!

[warneral]

Here are the pictures of my Mixte project. These are before:

Henry is annoyed that I brought ANOTHER bike home

[warneral]

Hi Dar! I am in WI too. In fact I just picked up the above project in Milwaukee on Monday (drove more than 3 hours round trip LOL).

I wouldn't get the Schwinn if I wanted a true mixte. I'm pretty sure the Schwinn mixtes only have a single wide top tube that splits off at the seatpost.

I don't know the answer to your other question but I'm guessing that it would be complicated but since the shifters probably don't index, perhaps that gives more flexibility.

[mtbdarby]

Rebecca, yes, I do know that I need those components to make it a triple and be can find parts the correct size.

Hi Warneral - nice mixte! I'm in Wausau these days....there's a nice raliegh mixte in Sun Prairie on ebay right now

I thought I had posted pix of the sanwa last fall but I can't find them. She's orange which is a big plus to me, lol. Silly I know, but I love the color.

The estimates are about $100 to change it to a triple. The rest will be about a hundred as well. Seeing as how I don't know how to do the work myself, although I could figure out some of it, I'd like it done fast so I can get her on the road!

[warneral]

I love orange too!

Are you sure you need the triple? I do understand being weighed down my a kiddo on a trailer I am still trying to figure out what I'll do about that - probably use my old trek mountain bike. My kiddos are 6 & 8 but still not strong for distances. B/c they weigh 50lb and under, we can use the trailer even though they are getting too tall! I wish they still sold those 26" trailer bikes!

That Raleigh (of course I had to look it up) is nice! It is actually near Racine in pleasant prairie. MY DH would be ver unhappy for me to buy yet another bike so I will restrain myself. It apperas to have aluminum wheels (early 80's) and I bet I could buy it, sell this one and have an easier/cheaper go with it all. But I'm really liking the looks of this one so I think I'll just slowly do my project and hopefully I won't spend too much$

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=p5197.c0.m619

[mtbdarby]

Alison - it was late last night was I was searching ebay so Sun Prairie stuck in my head for some reason, lol. It is a nice bike..... btw, I used to live down by you in Oregon!

See, I have too many bikes. GASP! Did I just admit that??? I do have a mtb and a diamondback hybrid which is what I currently use with the tagalong (ok, and I have a road bike). My son is 8 and I was considering a tandem, but since a tandem would be outgrown in a couple years anyway I thought it would make more sense to fix the mixte and use that and sell the hybrid because its so heavy. I could probably make due with a double but the hybrid is a triple and I use just about every gear when I'm out with him. Or I could just sell the mixte and keep the hybrid but that just seems wrong

[warneral]

haha I know what you mean. Last year we went on a family bike ride on the new path in fitchburg and I was using my trek navigator with my daughter on the back. It was a heavy bike and I got really mad b/c of how many people who were passing me. I have considered strapping her on the back of my trek 1000 roadbike but am afraid I wouldn't have enough stability on gravel trails with a 6yo on my back. drop bars + clipless + gravel + tagalong probably not a good idea!