Old 01-04-10, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Jtgyk
More to be seen at Doohickey's The Mixte Gallery.
Thanks for the plug! The picture you show is a classic style mixte. I have seen some (which I still consider a mixte) that have a single top tube that goes to the seat tube following a line drawn from the top of the head tube to the rear dropout; at the seat tube it becomes a pair of twin stays (to make a third set of stays along with the chain stays and seat stays). To me, having the third pair of stays distinguishes a mixte, whether or not they extend all the way to the head tube or they and at the seat tube and continue as a single tube to the head tube. (For an example of this variation, see Rivendell's Betty Foy.)
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