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  • A mixte is a perfectly good, nice and solid design for ladies or gentlemen.

    Strange Customs: Art, Bikes, and the Apocalypse BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • Speaking of retro, When are they gonna start reissuing mixte frames with ad layouts showing women riding w a jeans skirt and long flowing Nicolette Larsonesque hair and Dr Scholls shoes w recessed spd cleats?

    BSNYC Product Review: Electra Ticino 8D BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • That's not a mixte at all, it's just your average lady's bike.

    BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • If you click through the link on question 7 that bike is referred to as a mixte.

    BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Will it be relegated to the bike rack of history, along with the hybrid and the mixte?

    Trendcycles: Evolution or Reiteration? BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Scientific director of Unité mixte de physique CNRS/Thales, Orsay, France, since 1995. www2. cnrs.fr/en/338. htm

    The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics - Press Release 2007

  • Will it be relegated to the bike rack of history, along with the hybrid and the mixte?

    Archive 2009-01-01 BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • After watching a hipster in Portland faceplant off their fixie mixte with flat pedals while dumping the scalding cup of coffee on themselves they were holding in one hand while trying to stop without brakes right in front of a breakfast crowd on Belmont...well, I swore fixies were stupid.

    BSNYC Firday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • The festival also features several "non-mixte" film events during rest of the year in Paris.

    GreenCine Daily: Paris Dispatch. 2006

  • The Paris Cineffable Feminist and Lesbian Festival is a pearl of a festival, an international "non-mixte" event exclusively for women.

    GreenCine Daily: Paris Dispatch. 2006

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  • A bike which does not have a top bar, but rather a pair of support tubes from the top of the front tube running down to the back hub.

    Seems to come from 1960's Peugeot bikes model name.

    December 27, 2016