Sorry to drag an old thread up but the problem was so similar I couldn't resist!

My girlfriend is 5'10" and I wanted to build her a mixte for faster and longer beach riding than her cruiser provides.

I saw an craigslist ad and bought the Nishiki Sport mixte (1985 apparently) below to fix for my girlfriend, thinking I'd beautify it with a nice saddle and upright bars and eventually flashy paint (the original is in good condition but a very drab grey).

I jumped on the purchase because the frame is nice with cro-mo main tubes, the components al worked smooth with minimal rust, and it has good lugs including a beautiful lug at the top/seat tube connection which many japanese mixtes don't have.

The frame was advertised at 22" but when I got it home I realized the size was incorrect and is not ideal: 20.75" seat tube (c-t), 21.5 effective top tube. A longer head tube would be nice. I have seen all the mixtes on the forums with huge amounts of stem showing and would prefer not to do that, I'd rather get a 22 inch frame. I've seen forum members help others out with this and thought I'd give it a shot in case anyone is interested in a trade/sale.

Or if folks can convince me to keep the bike, throw a longer stem and seatpost with some setback or whatever on, I'm open to that too. I know there aren't many 56cm mixtes out there. I am not open to getting a shorter girlfriend, thanks, though.

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