Hybrid Bicycles - Any hybrid fit this spec?

Hi all,

We're after a ladies bike with the following spec:

Hub gears
Rigid fork
Dropped top tube/Mixte style frame (NOT a step through)
Hub dynamo
Alloy frame, small (she's 5'1")
Light weight
avaiable in Europe
Does anyone make something that fits this spec, or are we going to have to get a shop to build something up?
The older Stevens City Flyer was her fave but some scrote stole it :mad:

Thanks
Simon and Anna

My wife is only 5' 0" and I couldn't find a mass produced "mixte" framed machine. Soma Fabrications makes a "BEAUTIFUL" mixte frameset but you'd have to do your own build up for a complete bike. Good hunting, let us know what you found! :)

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=89814

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=75562

neither of those has internal hub gears.


these are closer to what he asked for, but don't have the dynamo front hub

http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/globe/work/work3stepthrough

http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-us/bikes/model/via.1.w/11532/55930/

btw, true mixte frames are generally steel as the thin long diagonals would be too flimsy if they were alloy.

http://www.raleighusa.com/bikes/lifestyle/citypath/detour-city-sport-13/

Fot the lady silver/light blue

njsteve: 'hub gear'. 'dynamo front axle'. 'mixte frame'.


bzzzzzzzt! *next?*



however.....

http://www.raleighusa.com/bikes/lifestyle/citypath/detour-city-sport-dlx-13/

http://www.bikemastertool.com/images/bikes/2448/large/RA13_Detour-CitySport-DLX_pewter.jpg?1340397720


a LOT closer. Simon/Anna, is that a sufficiently sloping top tube ?

Pierce is right, here's what I'm thinking of when you say, "Mixte Frame" 292743 The the last bike he showed is what I'd call a "Womens Frame", then you go to the u-shaped "Step Thru" frames. The Raleigh sport-dlx-13 sure looks like a sweet machine, jmho. :)

Pierce is right, here's what I'm thinking of when you say, "Mixte Frame" 292743 The the last bike he showed is what I'd call a "Womens Frame", then you go to the u-shaped "Step Thru" frames. The Raleigh sport-dlx-13 sure looks like a sweet machine, jmho. :)


I've never seen that Mixte design in anything but steel, and the OP did say aluminum/alloy.

FWIW, that Raleigh Detour City Sport DLX is /not/ marketed as a womans bike, rather its an "urban city/path" bike (whatever *that* means...). I think the styling of that sloped downtube is supposed to evoke 'cruiser' imagery, but it does have geometry somewhat like a Mixte. I didn't notice, but its got one of those awful 'boingy' seat posts, I'd get rid of that ASAP as they tend to wobble side to side, which I find very annoying. Its a Gates Carbon Belt drive, which means its nice and clean, and there's no chain oiling to worry about, but its also an $1100 bike, yeouch!

Thanks all!

Looks like it´s going to be a Focus Wasgo Nexus:

http://trinitycycles.com.au/7admin/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Focus-Wasgo-TR-3.0-2013-350x328.png

Nice! Let us know how she likes the Focus. My lower-end Focus is built very well, save for the cheap 8-speed drivetrain.