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SOMEBODY, please buy that bike before it breaks my heart! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=280169876470
And if you buy it and it doesn't fit you, in all likelihood I will buy it from you!
EDIT: I'm serious. PM me if you want.
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Thread: speaking of mixtes
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11-05-2007, 11:08 AM #31
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See, that is one of the reasons I want it ... I prefer index shifting but I don't want to be the person who screws up a bike in that condition. If it's already done I feel no guilt.
(I have no similar qualms about taking apart a well-ridden twelve-speed and making it a single-speed, it's just that this one is so untouched.)
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11-05-2007, 07:57 PM #32
Don't whine
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Last edited by KnottedYet; 11-06-2007 at 04:33 AM.
"If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson
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11-06-2007, 04:19 AM #33
I heart my bike
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Ooooo, that IS one beautiful bike!
I'd love to own it, but it's too big, I've got too many bikes already, and my DH has too little patience for ANOTHER bike in my (err... "our") house.
I hope somebody here buys it and loves the heck out of it!!!Check out my running blog: www.turtlepacing.blogspot.com
Cervelo P2C (tri bike)
Bianchi Eros (commuter/touring road bike)
1983 Motobecane mixte (commuter/errand bike)
Cannondale F5 mountain bike
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11-06-2007, 05:08 AM #34
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My husband is assuming that I will buy it, but I am only semi-employed! I haven't had a pay check since September! Baby needs ... uh, baby has everything she needs thanks to a grandma who bought her clothes up to size 3T.
If I buy it I will probably give my Puch to my husband to ride with a baby seat on it. (A mixte is a great bike for a baby seat because of the low stand-over height, and that Puch is manly enough for Daddy to ride.)
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11-07-2007, 04:24 PM #35
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I'm so excited! I figured out what the problem was with the saddle on my pink mixte! This bike has a seatpost with a clamp for a double rail saddle. I had the clamp flipped around the wrong way. When I rotated it 180 degrees, there is plenty of rail on the saddle to push it back far enough. My knees will be so happy!
Originally Posted by divingbiker
I knew something was off when I measured my commuting mixte and measured this pink mixte, and they are almost exactly the same size. So I started investigating and found the flipped clamp.
As KnottedYet would say, "I'm a jeeenious!" (or just not very observant when I put the saddle on in the first place...)
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11-08-2007, 08:22 AM #36
I'm riding! I'm riding!
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I love your bike & set-up, divingbiker. Way to run errands without the car!
About that seatpost clamp, I have often seen that kind of clamp on backwards. I'm glad you noticed that problem.
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06-13-2008, 11:18 AM #37
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LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN MY PARENTS' GARAGE
I feel a project coming onWith a smile like that, I gotta flirt.
Girl, you look like you just got off work.
