I love the look of mixtes, but have never ridden one myself. Have seen a few on the street but not in a bike shop yet.

Had a nice visit to another bike shop this afternoon. Salesman had his 2 cents on trailers vs. child seats, and tried to plug a Specialized bike with an aluminum frame and carbon fork that was priced to move. This shop at least had a few different bikes that I could potentially take for test rides, but I will have to wait until a day when I have someone to keep an eye on NBaby.

Dawes was also mentioned. I do like the idea of buying an English bike. Preferably one that is built in England, I will need to do a little more research on Dawes.