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Old 03-10-08, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by dwoloz
The thing I personally look for in mixtes is the tubing juncture of the two slender long tubes and the seat tube. Some will simply be TIG wleded while others have more favorable unique lugs of their own.
Here was a nice one that just went for higher than I expected http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=330217201535
Yeah, that one was nice, but the price got a bit insane, IMO. Says it comes with the original French cups, but you're still on your own to build up a French BB. And if the original cups are the thin ones, that just makes it harder.

I've been selling complete, clean mixtes for less than that - maybe I should just strip them and sell the framesets on eBay.
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